Thomas Ardal

Freelance software consultant and entrepreneur building SaaS applications like elmah.io

Minimize HTTP requests

2 posts

YSlow rule #9 - Make JavaScript and CSS External

Thomas Ardal on Caching, CSS, Firebug, Minimize HTTP requests, Performance optimization, Unobtrusive JavaScript, YSlow | 17 May 2011

We’ve briefly touched this subject a number of times already. Making your JavaScript and CSS external simply means moving it from your HTML header to their own files, referenced as an external file in the header. So why does Yahoo think that this is a good idea? We’ve…

YSlow rule #1 - Minimize HTTP Requests

Thomas Ardal on Minimize HTTP requests, Performance optimization, Yahoo, YSlow | 23 Feb 2011

In the following twenty-two posts, I will look into all the rules in YSlow. This is a pretty comprehensive plan, but I will try to keep the posts short and precise. All rules are pretty good documented in the YSlow documentation here: http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html. I…