How YSlow sees Nestoria - 94/100

Nestorinians,

We're always hard at work on making it as quick and easy as possible to find a home to buy or let. Usability is a tricky concept. What one person likes, another dislikes. There is one thing everyone seems to agree on though: they want the internet, and especially search engines, to be as fast as possible.

As such we're continually on the lookout for ways to speed up Nestoria. We were pleased to read about the recent release of YSlow, a tool from Yahoo! for measuring performance flaws. The tool is great in it's simplicity, and also pleasing in that there's a wealth of documentation that actually explains the logic behind the recommendations.

Unfortunately, YSlow won't help us make Nestoria much faster because we're already hitting a score of 94 out of 100 on our homepage.

The areas we could improve would be to use a CDN or 'content delivery network' like Akamai, but sadly that's not really an option (or even needed) for a lean and mean start up like Nestoria.

Nevertheless, rest assured, dear Nestoria user, that we're always doing our best to make the site as fast as possible. We've got a few more tricks planned for the coming weeks, which should hopefully ensure your search for your next home will be served up as quickly as possible.

BTW, as one of several Yahoo! alumni in the Nestoria team, it's very cool to see yet another bit of coolness (see our coverage of Y! Pipes and the Nestoria Yahoo! Hack Day) from the kids in Sunnyvale. Keep it up.

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