Straxweb

Is your website to slow and you are loosing visitors because of it? Make sure your website is optimized for speed. I advice you to have a look at the matter and take some easy actions to correct things. Here below you find a list of 33 things to do to boost the loading process. Items marked with red are relatively easy to accomplish but the rest is for advanced people – or yourself if you are interested enough.

1. Minimize HTTP Requests
2. Use a Content Delivery Network
3. Add an Expires or a Cache-Control 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 and CSS
11. Avoid Redirects
12. Remove Duplicate Scripts
13. Configure ETags
14. Make Ajax Cacheable
15. Flush the Buffer Early
16. Use GET for AJAX Requests
17. Post-load Components
18. Preload Components
19. Reduce the Number of DOM Elements
20. Split Components Across Domains
21. Minimize the Number of iframes
22. No 404s
23. Reduce Cookie Size
24. Use Cookie-free Domains for Components
25. Develop Smart Event Handlers
26. Choose <link> over @import
27. Avoid Filters
28. Optimize Images
29. Optimize CSS Sprites
30. Don’t Scale Images in HTML
31. Make favicon.ico Small and Cacheable
32. Keep Components under 25K
33. Pack Components into a Multipart Document

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