Tenni Theurer is a Product Optimization Manager and manages Yahoo!'s Exceptional Performance group, the team responsible for the highly popular YSlow open source extension. Theurer currently leads the worldwide effort on accelerating the user experience and making Yahoo! products faster, better, and more efficient. She has spoken at several conferences including AJAXWorld, Web 2.0 Expo, The Ajax Experience, The Rich Web Experience, BlogHer, WITI, and CSDN-DrDobbs. She also blogs regularly on Yahoo! Developer Network and Yahoo! User Interface Blog.
Yahoo! Developer Network Blog
Improvements in website performance are similar to improvements in energy or
fuel efficiency. We make good progress yet we continue to consume more, which
reverse the results of our improvements. The net effect is that optimizing
performance is an on-going battle. To ring in the New Year, the Exceptional
Performance team at Yahoo! (which I have had the honor to lead since July
2007 when I took over the reins from Steve Souders) would like to share our 7
Habits for Exceptional Website Performance.
1. LOFNO – Look out for number one, that is, your users. Be an advocate
for your users. You do control the user experience, so don’t settle for
excuses and don’t make excuses. A lot of people shift the blame towards
things they don’t control. The truth is that even if it’s slow
ads or the framework that’s slowi... (more)
Tenni Theurer is a Product Optimization Manager and manages Yahoo!'s Exceptional Performance group, the team responsible for the highly popular YSlow open source extension. Theurer currently leads the worldwide effort on accelerating the user experience and making Yahoo! products faster, better, and more efficient. She has spoken at several conferences including AJAXWorld, Web 2.0 Expo, The Ajax Experience, The Rich Web Experience, BlogHer, WITI, and CSDN-DrDobbs. She also blogs regularly on Yahoo! Developer Network and Yahoo! User Interface Blog.
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