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High Performance Web Pages

This week I've been slowly revamping and revising the corporate web site as well as my own personal web site.  As a result, I've been looking for pointers on web design, scalability, and performance. 

I found an informative presentation by Stoyan Stefanov (Yahoo!) that was given at the PHP Quebec, March 13, 2008 conference (see below).  Stoyan points out that when it comes to Google page rank, server response speed factors into your score.  More interesting tidbits inside:

I also found a much earlier and much longer (97 slides) slide deck from two other Yahoo employees: