It used to be that when people worked on speeding up their pages, they focused primarily on the images and multimedia, trying to make them as optimized and slim as possible. But research has shown that as much as 80–90% of the time spent waiting for a page to load is waiting for numerous HTTP requests to be processed by the server. By reducing the number of requests you make for page elements, you can greatly improve your page load times. And with the techniques mentioned in this article, you won’t have to give up fancy design or images to do it.

Why Speed Up Pages

• Minimize HTTP Requests to Speed Up Page Load Times
• “Thank You for Your Patience”
• The Size of Your Pages Does Matter
• Speeding Up Your Web Page

Just Optimizing Images Doesn’t Cut it for Speeding Up Pages originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Monday, September 6th, 2010 at 04:52:27.

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