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	14 Rules for Faster Loading Web Sites

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3-12-2009 1:40 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/dd2aeafb-a20f-4962-a1c9-4019fb9f989d/0B09EC8C-9A8C-403A-81A0-B3AA3AAD41EA/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://stevesouders.com/hpws/rules.php" href="http://stevesouders.com/hpws/rules.php" style="font-size: 11px;">stevesouders.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://stevesouders.com/hpws/rules.php"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"> <A href="http://stevesouders.com/hpws/rule-min-http.php" class="noline">Rule 1 - Make Fewer HTTP Requests</A>
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  </LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://stevesouders.com/hpws/rules.php"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"> <A href="http://stevesouders.com/hpws/rule-css-top.php" class="noline">Rule 5 - Put Stylesheets at the Top</A>
  </LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://stevesouders.com/hpws/rules.php"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"> <A href="http://stevesouders.com/hpws/rule-js-bottom.php" class="noline">Rule 6 - Put Scripts at the Bottom</A>
  </LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://stevesouders.com/hpws/rules.php"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"> <A href="http://stevesouders.com/hpws/rule-expr.php" class="noline">Rule 7 - Avoid CSS Expressions</A>
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  </LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://stevesouders.com/hpws/rules.php"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"> <A href="http://stevesouders.com/hpws/rule-dns.php" class="noline">Rule 9 - Reduce DNS Lookups</A>
  </LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://stevesouders.com/hpws/rules.php"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"> <A href="http://stevesouders.com/hpws/rule-minify.php" class="noline">Rule 10 - Minify JavaScript</A>
  </LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://stevesouders.com/hpws/rules.php"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"> <A href="http://stevesouders.com/hpws/rule-redir.php" class="noline">Rule 11 - Avoid Redirects</A>
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  </LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://stevesouders.com/hpws/rules.php"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"> <A href="http://stevesouders.com/hpws/rule-etags.php" class="noline">Rule 13 - Configure ETags</A>
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