Web Design Software Pick of the Week: Page Speed

Site speed is getting more and more important, not less. And knowing that your site is loading quickly can benefit your readers as well as your site. But once you’ve made your images as small as possible, what can you do to improve your page speeds? The Page Speed Firebug plugin can help. You just load this plugin (you must have Firebug installed already) into Firefox, browse to a page you want to check, and run the analysis. Not only does it tell you where your pages are slowing down, it shows you how you can fix it.