Globo.com YSlow performance grade: F (33)
Holy crap. I was bored at lunch time so I started visiting some random brazilian sites and looking at their YSlow performance grades. oglobo.globo.com has a performance grade of 33.
Biggest issues that I can see:
- Tons and tons of HTTP requests (8 external js files; 9 external css files; 79 (!!!) CSS background images)
- Most images have a 20 minute expire time
- No compression is going on for HTML/JS/CSS code
- Everything being served from the same hostname
- No minified JS code
- ETags are enabled
At least they are avoiding CSS expressions :)
Kit Sunde said,
July 7, 2008 @ 3:07 pm
I have a simlar habbit except for Swedish websites, I find it amazing that websites can get updated for years on end without modernizing their codebase.
Heres one I like to throw around that I once wrote a paper on:
Ellos.se
Score 29.
Hey atleast they only put 2 out of 14 js files in the head. :P
If you want a laugh view code and look at the value for the input on line 44.