WebMantras

Came across this via the Coldfusion Weekly Podcast – Version 2.26 (The “Using YSlow” Edition with Guest Host Kurt Wiersma)

The Exceptional Performance group at Yahoo! has come up with 14 ways you can increase the front-end performance of your web site. The group found that 80+% of the time is spent dealing with what’s in the HTML document, namely, the front-end. That’s why the key to faster web sites is to focus on improving front-end performance.

The 14 techniques discussed in the article are:

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

Definetly a very informative article and highly recommend it to anyone involved with web site development.