Its not just about the code-based rules that have been discussed here - consider a more technical-based way of speeding up downloads, which has several business benefits and really does create ROI:
Web page compression - There exists (for apache webserver at any rate) mod_gzip and mod_deflate - the ability to zip encode all pages for most browsers. Effectively, it zips up the webpage, which the broswer the unzips when received without the user even knowing its happened - it is completely transparent.
In our exeperience, webpages get compressed by 50% - 90% depending on how they are written. There is no effect in terms of timing and it also saves an enormous amount of bandwidth on high-traffic sites...
CTO at Library House
07 August 2004 01:28am
Its not just about the code-based rules that have been discussed here - consider a more technical-based way of speeding up downloads, which has several business benefits and really does create ROI:
Web page compression - There exists (for apache webserver at any rate) mod_gzip and mod_deflate - the ability to zip encode all pages for most browsers. Effectively, it zips up the webpage, which the broswer the unzips when received without the user even knowing its happened - it is completely transparent.
In our exeperience, webpages get compressed by 50% - 90% depending on how they are written. There is no effect in terms of timing and it also saves an enormous amount of bandwidth on high-traffic sites...
Nick Harrison, Diligent