Just thought I'd share this with you:
I have installed the "YSlow" Firefox extension to find performance hogs on some of my pages for another project. For fun, I ran it on [[:en:Bezel]]. Something to think about:
These components are not gzipped: (0.6K) http://en.wikipedia.org/skins-1.5/common/shared.css?90 (27.5K) http://en.wikipedia.org/skins-1.5/monobook/main.css?90 (5.2K) http://en.wikipedia.org/skins-1.5/common/commonPrint.css?90 (39.8K) http://en.wikipedia.org/skins-1.5/common/wikibits.js?90 (4.5K) http://en.wikipedia.org/skins-1.5/common/ajax.js?90 (4.4K) http://en.wikipedia.org/skins-1.5/common/ajaxwatch.js?90
These components do not have a far future Expires header: (no expires) http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Linguistics_stub.sv...] (no expires) http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/18/Monobook-bullet.png
This page has 9 external JavaScript files.
This page has 7 external StyleSheets.
So, I'll try to sum up: * css/js should be gzipped * images should have expiry date
Would that speed up anything? Probably on the first page load only...
Magnus