Yahoo! News . Yahoo SRP goes on a No Numbers Diet

by Kris   ⋅   July 26, 2007   ⋅   Comment now   ⋅    RSS

This is the quickest and smallest “big cheese” search page on the web. On previous tests, I worked with the webdevs on a main sprite image (reducing image calls) and the team found a way to further reduce page weight by over 60%~!

I am very excited because we can hopefully achieve lightning fast speeds around the globe (we take broadband waaay for granted here in the Bay Area, don’t we?), including trouble spots like Vietnam, or even dial-uppers here in the U.S. The slimmed lightweight Yahoo! SRP launched today for certain users on Yahoo! Search and for wide release on Yahoo! India:

No Numbers, No Bullets Diet