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4 Tips on Server Requests to Speed Up Your Web Site

Friday, November 14th, 2008

On one hand you have a carefully written fast web site and on the other one, well, you have another carefully written web site that isn’t quite as performant – but why is it so?

The answer doesn’t lie in your web site’s size, but in the number of elements on your site, and consequentially the number of requests to the server to fetch those elements. Surely, you should always be careful to cut down image size, choose the appropriate image format, produce clean and nice (x)html and couple it with CSS, but as experienced web developers we already know that, right? Right?
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