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Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site

Short of creating a pure html version of what should be a dynamic data-driven site.  There are trick to optimize the performance on your joomla site that I've successfully implemented on various client sites.
Use these techniques to increase the performance of your site.

 

  • Minimize HTTP Requests
  • Use a Content Delivery Network
  • Add an Expires or a Cache-Control Header
  • Gzip Components
  • Put Stylesheets at the Top
  • Put Scripts at the Bottom
  • Avoid CSS Expressions
  • Make JavaScript and CSS External
  • Reduce DNS Lookups
  • Minify JavaScript and CSS
  • Avoid Redirects
  • Remove Duplicate Scripts
  • Configure ETags
  • Make Ajax Cacheable
  • Flush the Buffer Early
  • Use GET for AJAX Requests
  • Post-load Components
  • Preload Components
  • Reduce the Number of DOM Elements
  • Split Components Across Domains
  • Minimize the Number of iframes
  • No 404s
  • Reduce Cookie Size
  • Use Cookie-free Domains for Components
  • Minimize DOM Access
  • Develop Smart Event Handlers
  • Choose <link> over @import
  • Avoid Filters
  • Optimize Images
  • Optimize CSS Sprites
  • Don't Scale Images in HTML
  • Make favicon.ico Small and Cacheable
  • Keep Components under 25K
  • Pack Components into a Multipart Document


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