Top Ten ways to speed up your website
Over last few years as a web admin, I realized that knowing HTML and javascript alone was not enough to build a fast website. To make the site faster one needs to understand the real world problems like network latency and packet loss which is usually ignored by most web administrators. Here are 10 things you should investigate before you call your website perfect. Some of these are minor configuration changes, others might require time and resource to implement. HTTP Keepalives : If Http Keepalives are not turned on, you can get 30% to 50% improvements just by turning this on. Keepalives allow multiple HTTP requests to go over the same TCP/IP connection. Since there is a performance penalty for setting up new TCP/IP connections, using Keepalives will help most websites. Compression : Enabling compression can dramatically speed up sites which transfer large web objects. Compression doesn't help much on a site with lots of images, but it can do wonders in most text/html based w