Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site

14 methods to improve front-end performance

 

   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

 

Complete article available at http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html