December 1, 2008

10 Ways to Speed Web Page Download Time

We all want or pages to load as fast as possible. But when we develop our site, time constraints may prevent us from properly designing it for speed. Here are a few tips that should help:

1. Lay out your pages with CSS, not tables
2. Don't use images to display text
3. Call up decorative images through CSS
4. Use contextual selectors
5. Use shorthand CSS properties
6. Minimise white space, line returns and comment tags
7. Use relative call-ups
8. Remove unnecessary META tags and META content
9. Put CSS and JavaScript into external documents
10. Use / at the end of directory links

For a more detailed explanantion read over this article (.pdf).