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Old 05-29-2010, 08:51 PM
 
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Default Re: Improve frontend performance

Combining the CSS wouldn't be too effective as it is... You'd be better off rewriting the entire sites template from scratch and get the css down to a couple hundred lines rather than nearly 5000.

As for JS, that could be combined effectively. One solution is to remove the standard jQuery include and uses googles CDN. Would make people possibly have it before even visiting your site.

May also want to consider making CSS sprites. That would definitely take out alot of load time, and perhaps even use CSS rounded corners to make buttons.

Another option is to enable GZIP compression if its not already running.



In any case, if you want faster load times, you will in the end need to redo the templates to kill off the massive CSS file.
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