My Yahoo! Blog

Make your page load faster.

Hi everyone,

I am a content aggregator and LOVE adding new modules to my My Yahoo! page; however, sometimes this means my page loads a little bit slower than I’d like. If you keep all your modules, but want your page to still load quickly, you can try these two tricks.

Collapse modules for faster page loading
Simply click the arrow in the left hand corner of a module.

Before

After

If you want to read the collapsed content, just click the arrow again and the module will open. I find this very useful as I can collapse individual modules that I don’t look at often, but like to have handy (such as “Movie Showtimes”). Now, my page is loading faster, but I can still see what’s playing on a Friday night whenever I want!

Create separate pages to speed up My Yahoo!
You can always add an extra page by clicking the ‘Add Page’ button at the top of the page (each page loads separately, meaning that the page you’re on loads faster as there are fewer modules). Once you do that, you can drag modules from your original page to your new page.

I did this with all of my ‘work-related’ modules (like TechCrunch or Advertising Age). That way, I can review my personal stuff and work stuff separately. Or, if I want a quick read on what’s new in my industry, I can just click over to my second page and scan for news.

Both of these tricks will minimize the amount of information your page has to load when you first open your My Yahoo! page, helping you get to what you want faster.

Try it out!

Sarah Sikowitz - Yahoo! Marketing

Your page, collapsed.

I love My Yahoo!, but at times I get a little overwhelmed with all the good stuff on my page. I do have over 18 modules after all. So every once in a while I collapse some of my modules. “What’s that you say? Collapse your modules?” Absolutely, I collapse my modules. It’s an easily-overlooked feature, so I thought I’d share.

You can “collapse” or hide the module content. At the upper left of the module, in front of the module title, there is a down arrow. See below (outlined in orange):

Clicking it rolls up or hides the content…

This is great for those seldom-read modules you can’t bring yourself to delete (and even the content that may be less suitable for work!). The best part is you can still link to the source because the title is still clickable (for most RSS feeds, anyway).

So play around and let us know what you think.

Colleen Jansen
Yahoo! Marketing