Steve Souders

Steve Souders
Performance Evangelist, Google

Website | @souders

Steve works at Google on web performance and open source initiatives. His book High Performance Web Sites explains his best practices for performance along with the research and real-world results behind them. Steve is the creator of YSlow, the performance analysis extension to Firebug. He is also co-chair of Velocity, the first web performance conference sponsored by O’Reilly. He frequently speaks at such conferences as OSCON, Rich Web Experience, Web 2.0 Expo, and The Ajax Experience.

Sessions

9:00am Monday, 06/23/2008
Welcome
Keynote
 Location: Salons E-F
Steve Souders (Google), Jesse Robbins (Opscode)
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1:00pm Monday, 06/23/2008
Measuring Performance
Performance
 Location: Salon E
Steve Souders (Google), Ryan Breen (Gomez Inc. ), Bill Scott (Meebo), Ernest Mueller (National Instruments Corporation), Scott Ruthfield (Rooster Park Consulting)
Fast web pages are critical to a good user experience, but what is "response time" and how should it be measured? This panel discusses what parts of page loading should be measured and the importance of perceived versus instrumented speed. Read more.
9:00am Tuesday, 06/24/2008
Announcements
Keynote
 Location: Salons E-F
Steve Souders (Google), Jesse Robbins (Opscode)
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1:00pm Tuesday, 06/24/2008
Even Faster Web Sites
Performance
 Location: Salon A-D
Steve Souders (Google)
Souders' book, "High Performance Web Sites," describes the 14 best practices he developed while working as the Chief Performance Yahoo!. YSlow, the Firebug extension he created, codified those best practices. Now working at Google, Souders discusses the next set of best practices he's discovered, including the best ways to load JavaScript and where to place (and where not to place) inline scripts. Read more.
4:45pm Tuesday, 06/24/2008
This is Your Page with Ads
Performance
 Location: Salon E
Steve Souders (Google), Tony Ralph (Yahoo!), Eric Goldsmith (AOL), Artur Bergman (Wikia/Fastly), Kai Hansen (Google Ireland Ltd.)
Advertising is a multi-billion dollar industry that supports many of the Web's most popular sites. And yet, ads are notorious for slowing down web pages. The experts on this panel discuss techniques you can deploy immediately to mitigate the impact of ads on your site's load times and efforts that are ongoing to establish a future where users, publishers, and advertisers surf in harmony. Read more.
  • Akamai
  • Google
  • Hyperic
  • Sun Microsystems
  • 3Tera, Inc
  • Coradiant
  • Keynote Systems
  • Limelight Networks, Inc.
  • OpSource
  • TechRepublic

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