Even Faster Web Sites: Performance Best Practices for Web Developers
Steve Souders works at Google on web performance and open source  initiatives. His booksHigh Performance Web SitesandEven Faster Web Sitesexplain 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 with more than 1  million downloads. He serves as co-chair of Velocity, the web  performance and operations conference sponsored by O'Reilly. Steve taught CS193H: High Performance Web Sites at Stanford, and he  frequently speaks at such conferences as OSCON, Rich Web Experience,  Web 2.0 Expo, and The Ajax Experience.Steve previously worked at Yahoo! as the Chief Performance Yahoo!, where he blogged about web performance on Yahoo! Developer Network. He  was named a Yahoo! Superstar. Steve worked on many of the platforms and products within the company, including running the development  team for My Yahoo!. Prior to Yahoo! Steve worked at several small to mid-sized startups including two companies he co-founded, Helix Systems and CoolSync. He also worked at General Magic, WhoWhere?, and  Lycos.