Is your website slow or fast? How do you really know??

Is your website slow or fast?  How do you really know??

Yahoo! makes a Firefox plug-in called Yslow.  This tool will analyze your website based on the Yahoo! rules for performance and give your website a letter grade: A through F.

Download the Firefox YSlow Add-On

What was your YSlow grade ?
Did you get an A – Great!
Did you get an F – Keep on Reading

Not happy with the results?  Here are some tips on how you can make your website faster:

Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site

PEER 1 can offer you the following to help improve website speed:
1. 1000 Mbps connection to Internet
2. Content Delivery Network (CDN)
3. Split your website into multiple subdomain on SuperDNS
4. Upgrade to fast Quad Core CPU w/ 15k RPM SAS hard drives
5. Have a PEER 1 DBA analyze and improve your MySQL or Microsoft SQL database