The smart people at Moz outline the basic of optmization and page speed best practices:
- Use Gzip to compress the size of your CSS, HTML, and JavaScript files that are larger than 150 bytes
- Minify (remove spaces, commas, and other unnecessary characters) from HTML, CSS and JavaScriptfiles
- Minimize the number of page redirects
- Eliminate , reduce or move unneeded JavaScript that blocks the page from rendering
- Use browser caching to reduce instances of the same code being retrieved over and over again
- Fix performance"logjams" to improve your server response time
- Use CDNs (content distribution networks) to deliver your content more efficiently
- Optimize your images, so they're the right dimensions and format, with the smallest file size
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