Use Webslug to Get the Performance Ball Rolling

So you’ve likely seen Webslug, the neato tool that lets you battle sites against each other for fastest load time. I suggest you try it out, but only to start you thinking about performance.

When I saw my site lose to traceback.org (grrrrr), I started contemplating what I have on CodeSoftly that’s bogging things down. I came up with three right away:

• My ShareThis javascript
• Embedded YouTube Videos
• Images
  

These in turn got me thinking that I really ought to profile my site performance to see what’s else might be bogging things down.

This got me thinking that maybe I can optimize the markup behind the site to shrink things even further.

THAT got me thinking about what the fastest site ever would look like.

A single loss got all that going. Coolio.