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Paul at PaulStamatiou.com has written “5 Ways to Speed Up Your Site“. He outlines methods you can use to speed up the loading of your website or blog.

The five ways are:

1. Reduce Overall Latency by Reducing HTTP Requests
2. Properly Save Your Images
3. Compression
4. Avoid JavaScript Where Possible
5. Strip Extraneous PHP Calls

I’ve already implemented #4 on the few sites I operate, but I’ve failed to make sure I’ve saved my images correctly or optimized the number of http requests made on each page.

Paul was able to significantly reduce the size of his main page:

Over the past few months I have become somewhat of a website optimization specialist, bringing my own site from an over 250kB homepage to its current 34kB.

These tips should actually become standard practice in web site design and development. Too many websites are harboring the idea that broadband in every home and business means the days of optimizing site code is over.

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