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  • Rules for High Performance Websites

    Techniques
    30th October 2007 -By Vinu Thomas

    Here’s an excellent article on Yahoo on how to speed up your website.  The points covered in this are:

    • Make Fewer HTTP Requests
    • Use a Content Delivery Network
    • Add an Expires Header
    • Gzip Components
    • Put Stylesheets at the Top
    • Put Scripts at the Bottom
    • Avoid CSS Expressions
    • Make JavaScript and CSS External
    • Reduce DNS Lookups
    • Minify JavaScript
    • Avoid Redirects
    • Remove Duplicate Scripts
    • Configure ETags
    • Make Ajax Cacheable

    Read on at: Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site

    Here’s a Firefox plugin from to grade your site performance according to the rules outlined in this article:

    YSlow for Firefox: http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/

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