Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site

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Just for your own interest, read http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html

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1.Function and Page Cache
2.Sprite Images
3.Minimize JS Scripts
4.Minimize CSS
5.Reduce HTTP Request
6.Gzip for HTTP Compression

and you’ll have a decent speed up also though not neccessary
*Enabled Server Cache like Apache’s mod_expires not an IIS Fan boy so not sure what theirs is like.

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insightful bro

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Would be great if people knew how to do these especially enabling GZip compression on their shared hosting account.


Ps: would be nice if this Rich text editor could be swapped for plain text and enabled by user choice.