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Given my recent obsession with optimizing website load times recently, I felt the need to share my research findings. There are more ways than flavors at a gellato store, but fear not, I’ll try to condense them into a consumable chunk in the next few series of posts.

Here’s a rough breakdown of what I intend to explore:

1. HTTP Compression
2. Application level caching (PHP)
3. Client side requests optimization
4. Non-vital scripts optimization
5. Client side caching (i.e. browser caching)

There’s a lot of neat tips and tricks out there, and I’ll try to post as much code and/or scripts that I can. I’ve used tactics from all the above topics in real world applications that I’ve been developing and the results have been very encouraging. On one particular site, using a combination of #1,#2 and #3, I went from an initial load time of 3.6 secs to 455ms (87% decrease).

Stay tuned for some good stuff.