Practical Advice on Speeding up Web Pages
A Google video on web performance was released a couple of months ago. The nice thing about the Net is that you can miss something one time but catch it on the rebound. A forum entry Webmasterworld.com highlighted the main points of the video:
1. Make Fewer HTTP Requests
2. Use a Content Delivery Network
3. Add an Expires Header
4. Gzip Components
5. Put Stylesheets at the Top
6. Put Scripts at the Bottom
7. Avoid CSS Expressions
8. Make JavaScript and CSS External
9. Reduce DNS Lookups
10. Minify JavaScript
11. Avoid Redirects
12. Remove Duplicate Scripts
13. Configure ETags
14. Make Ajax Cacheable
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