Thirteen Simple Rules for Speeding Up Your Web Site
Posted on September 18th, 2007 by Jans
Yahoo!’s the Exceptional Performance team has identified 13 rules for making web pages fast. Their best practices center around the rules for high performance web sites. Their Firefox add on tool YSlow can analyse your web site and tell you why it is slow based on the rules for high performance web sites
The 13 rules are…..
1. Make Fewer HTTP Requests
2. Use a Content Delivery Network
3. Add an Expires Header
4. Gzip Components
5. Put CSS at the Top
6. Move Scripts to 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
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