Steve Souders

Steve Souders
Head Performance Engineer, Google

Website | @souders

Steve works at Google on web performance and open source initiatives. He previously served as Chief Performance Yahoo!. Steve is the author of High Performance Web Sites and Even Faster Web Sites. He is the creator of YSlow, one of the top 25 of 2 billion Firefox add-ons. He’s created many other performance tools and services including Cuzillion, Jdrop, ControlJS, and Browserscope. He serves as co-chair of Velocity, the web performance and operations conference from O’Reilly, and is co-founder of the Firebug Working Group. He taught CS193H: High Performance Web Sites at Stanford University.

Sessions

9:00am Monday, 06/22/2009
Website Performance Analysis
Web Performance
 Location: Regency 2
Steve Souders (Google)
Average rating: ****.
(4.45, 22 ratings)
In this workshop, Steve Souders explains the rules he developed as part of YSlow, as well as new best practices he's developed while at Google. With those in mind, he analyzes several of today's popular websites to see how well they follow, or don't follow, this advice. Read more.
8:30am Tuesday, 06/23/2009
Opening Welcome
Keynote
Location: Regency Ballroom
Jesse Robbins (Opscode), Steve Souders (Google)
Average rating: ***..
(3.71, 17 ratings)
Jesse Robbins and Steve Souders welcome you to Velocity 2009! Read more.
8:30am Wednesday, 06/24/2009
Welcome
Keynote
Location: Regency Ballroom
Jesse Robbins (Opscode), Steve Souders (Google)
Average rating: ***..
(3.30, 10 ratings)
Morning welcome and program notes from Jesse Robbins and Steve Souders. Read more.
5:05pm Wednesday, 06/24/2009
State of Performance
Web Performance
 Location: Regency 1
Steve Souders (Google)
Why is the Web so slow? Steve Souders talks about the issues that prevent web sites from being faster, and what we should expect to see to address these problems. Read more.
  • Keynote Systems
  • Google
  • Shopzilla
  • Aptimize
  • Facebook
  • NeuStar
  • Rackspace Cloud
  • Schooner Information Technology
  • SoftLayer
  • SpringSource
  • Sun Microsystems

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