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[salsabeel]

Hello,

Has anyone moved Javascript to the bottom of the page before </BODY> to reduce the site's load time? What were the results?

I used YSlow on our site and found this recommendation. From Yahoo's documentation: Put Scripts at the Bottom.

[totaltec]

No I haven't. But X-cart already speeds up javascript downloads by combining a lot of the different scripts into one file. If you are wanting to increase your speed, first look at your web hosting company. I like to preach about switching to Hard Hat or one of the other X-cart hosts, EWD or Hands On.

[salsabeel]

Mike,

Thanks for your advice. Do you have any experience with Hard Hat Hosting's VPS Beginner Plan? We were actually with them from 2006-2007 on the VPS Commerce Plan and were very satisfied, but had to switch to a different host to try to reduce fees at the time. My main concern is will the VPS Beginner Plan support X-Cart's memory requirements.

As far as the Javascript's location, I noticed that X-Cart 4.4.5 now moves JS and CSS to the bottom of the page on its own. In customer/home.tpl lines 53-54, there is:

{load_defer_code type="js"}
{load_defer_code type="css"}

Thanks again!

[totaltec]

The VPS beginner plan will definitely have enough juice to run X-cart. I highly recommend it. Larger stores with lots of traffic are going to want a bigger package, but they can afford it.