BANGALORE, INDIA:  Yahoo recently previewed their next iteration of performance tool YSlow at a conference organised by China Software Developers Network (CSDN) in Beijing, China.

CSDN, online community with over 3 million active members allows members to join discussions and forums, run blogs, chat, get personal hosting, personalized search and recommendations.

The community recognizes and honors contributions through a rating system that rewards the best content with greater visibility. In addition to the online community, CSDN has a book publishing house, prints China's authoritative IT technology magazine Programmer, and provides training and talent recruiting services.

Stoyan Stefanov, YSlow 2.0 architect, Yahoo writes in his blog, "While YSlow 2.0 is still under development and it was a great opportunity to share the excitement about the upcoming release and also talk to people who are actually using the current version in their daily development life. We wanted to get a sense of whether we're headed in the right direction."

"It was a great experience to meet and talk to the Chinese developers and answer their challenging questions about YSlow and OOJS," added Stefanov.

YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the popular Firebug web development tool and calculates the total size of the web page for both empty cache and primed cache scenarios, as well as information about cookies. It also analyzes web pages to inform why they're slow based on the rules for high performance web sites.