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Steve Souders
Head Performance Engineer, Google

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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.

Recent comments

JSMeter: Characterizing Real-World Behavior of JavaScript Programs
posted almost 3 years ago:
Everyone loves benchmarks. The browser vendors are focused on improving JavaScript performance. And yet, most people agree a good benchmark for real world JavaScript performance has eluded us. Ben ...
Mitigating Advertising Impact on Page Performance
posted almost 3 years ago:
Is it possible? Ads on my site that don't destroy performance? Ismail has a lot of experience dealing with ads on Edmunds.com. His lessons learned will benefit anyone who serves ads on their site.
Building Fast Webapps, Fast (Lessons From Creating the Meebo Bar)
posted almost 3 years ago:
The Meebo bar has undergone an amazing number of performance improvements. When I heard what they had done, I knew I wanted them to present at Velocity. Come hear what they fixed, what was importan...
Browser Panel
posted almost 3 years ago:
I'm excited to have this opportunity to have YOU ask questions about these browsers. What performance features do you think are critical? What's in HTML5 that needs to happen ASAP? What isn't in an...
Firefox
posted almost 3 years ago:
Firefox is always pushing the envelope of new performance features and tools. Come hear Chris talk about what they've done to improve the Firefox you use today, and what's coming in the future.

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