Faster Web Sites

Here are some rules to make your web site faster and gooder. These thirteen rules can be enforced via the new Yahoo Firefox plugin called YSlow, which will examine a web site and tell you how well it does using these rules. In my recent Javascript fixation, I am particularly interested in rule 11. Here are the rules:

1. Make Fewer HTTP Requests
2. Use a Content Delivery Network
3. Add an Expires Header
4. Gzip Components
5. Put CSS at the Top
6. Move Scripts to 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

Thirteen Simple Rules for Speeding Up Your Web Site