12. 06.
I just today ran across this post on the Yahoo Developer Network and wanted to give this high marks. Combined with the YSlow Firebug extension for Firefox there is enormous opportunity to enhance the speed or perceived speed of wesbites. I ran tests on the Lebanon Opera House using a modified subselection of test criteria (skipping Content Delivery Network) and was pleased to discover that for the most part I was already ahead of the curve.
By doing a bit of image optimization and adding expires headers to non-image content (external javascript and css files) I expect to score an A.
What best practices do you use? What methodologies do you employ to ensure these practices make it through as part of your development cycle? What other tools do you use?
Ed Rooney