Faster Websites
In an age of short attention spans, speed is the name of the online game. Building a website and deploying it to the web is not a competitive advantage anymore, the website should be fast enough in order to make it more attractive to visitors and keep the search engines happy when crawling the site.
During the development of our client’s websites we make sure that we apply as much as we could the guidelines of web optimization developed by Google and Yahoo such as
- Make fewer HTTP requests
- Use a CDN
- Add an Expires header
- Gzip components
- Put stylesheets at the top
- Put scripts at the bottom
- Avoid CSS expressions
- Make JS and CSS external
- Reduce DNS lookups
- Minify JS
- Avoid redirects
- Remove duplicate scripts
- Configure ETags
- Make AJAX cacheable