Winners of the 2010 web performance contest

Best YOTTAA score

Gaël Métais

Gaël wins an IPAD, courtesy of YOTTAA.

"This contest is a great way to show how huge improvements in performances can be achieved pretty easily. I'm surprized myself ! And thanks for the organization !"

Gaël is a Web expert consultant at So@t, Paris.

Fastest Onload & start render times

Cédric Morin

Cédric wins an IPOD touch, courtesy of catchpoint systems.

"This contest has been a very exciting challenge.
Being in competition with others on a common problem forced me to learn and use the best state of art in web performance optimization and even to innovate and find new originals and realists solutions.
That's exactly the kind of task I'm big fan of in everyday working !"

Cédric is a Freelance Web developer. He's also a core developer for SPIP, a very popular French CMS. He's fond of performance and industrialization questions.

Smallest number of requests & Kbytes

Alexandrine Boissière

Alexandrine wins 3 signed books from Stoyan Stefanov.

"I used to have web performance basic knowledge that I never had the time to put into practice.
This contest was an opportunity to get into it and by offering a way to compare my results with others participants, to realize how important webperf was."

Alexandrine is a PHP/Javascript Developper with intereste in ergonomy, seo and more recently ... web performance !