Back in 1993 I read about a game called DOOM that I felt I needed to play immediately.  My parents had a computer with a 14.4 modem and I conspired to find a BBS located in some other state.  I managed to connect and over the next few hours DOOM trickled across the wire to my computer.  A few weeks later I had to explain the phone bill to my parents.

Thankfully we’ve come a long way since those days.  Internet response times are measured in milliseconds, not hours.  A variety of strategies can be used to reduce page-load times.  In addition, there are wonderful tools that can be used to guide our optimization efforts.

One of those tools is a Firefox add-on called YSlow.  YSlow analyzes web pages and suggests ways to improve performance based on a set of rules for high performance web pages. 

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