How Edmunds Decreased Page Load Time by 80% in 3 Simple Steps

Google Tech Talk January 13, 2011 Presented by Ismail Elshareef. ABSTRACT Back in the day, the onLoad event on our edmunds.com and insidelien.com pages used to take 9 seconds to fire! Yeah, we thought it was awful too. That's why in late 2008, we set out to do something about. In this talk, I will discuss the three main concepts that helped us take our pages from slow to really fast. Slides for this talk can be seen here: http://www.slideshare.net/EdmundsLabs/how-edmunds-got-in-the-fast-lane-80-reduction-in-page-load-time-in-3-simple-steps-6593377 Link to blog post: http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2010/11/edmunds-partners-with-google-to-make.html Ismail Elshareef's bio - Ismail has been a web engineer for over twelve years working on architecting and developing web applications and solutions for government, entertainment, media and automotive industries. While working at Ticketmaster's Cottonblend, Ismail was the Chief Architect and Engineer behind the Bunnyfarm CMS project that currently drives and manages sites like The Troubadour, Viejas Entertainment, The Pasadena Civic and Cottonblend.com. At Edmunds, where he was the Director of Front-End Engineering and now Principal Architect of Platform, he's been working with sharp and ambitious engineers on setting and executing a vision for frontend development based in quality, performance and pushing the proverbial technology envelop. In his new role as a Principal Architect, Ismail is spearheading the creation of Edmunds' open platform of APIs and open-srouced products and tools. Edmunds bio - Edmunds Inc. publishes four Web sites that empower, engage and educate automotive consumers, enthusiasts and insiders. Our Web sites consist of Edmunds.com (launched in 1995 as the first automotive information Web site), Inside Line (launched in 2005 and the most-read automotive enthusiast Web site), CarSpace AutoObserver.com (launched in 2007 to provide insightful automotive industry commentary and analysis).