Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site

[shameem]

Lets make the web faster.

Yahoo's Exceptional Performance team has identified a number of best practices for making web pages fast. The list includes 34 best practices divided into 7 categories.

These rules must strictly followed to make our webpages faster to load and perform better.
Rule No.1: Minimize HTTP Requests,
Rule No.8, Make JavaScript and CSS External.
Rule No.10: Minify JavaScript and CSS.

One example for the Rule 10 is , include minified version of jquery, jquery-1.3.2.min.js (its only about 55.9 KB in size) instead of jquery-1.3.2.js(117.9 KB in size).

[latha]

Shameem,

Nice link.

[krishnaprasad]

Its very informative shameem
Minify JavaScript and CSS may benefit many users including me because i never bother about(actually dont know) howmuch is the size and how this affect the speed of the site

[tvjames]

Nice article Shameem. Infact Y! has been advocating strongly on Rule 8 and Rule 10 for quite a while now. They follow the same principles if we are to use their JS libraries (YUI)...

[Jayakrishnan]

Thats quite an informative article.Thanks for sharing.

[ciby]

Thanks for shameem for finding this link.So this article is very helpful for both designers and programmers.

[jay]

Make your websites run faster automatically, try . mod_pagespeed reduce page load times by up to 50% (an average across a rough sample of sites google tried) -- in other words, essentially speeding up websites by about 2x, and sometimes even faster.