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Did you know that… “There are precisely 19,000 variety of Starbucks coffee.” No? Well, now you know.

Source: Long Tail

–aj

These rules are the key to speeding up your web pages. They’ve been tested on some of the most popular sites on the Internet and have successfully reduced the response times of those pages by 25-50%.

The key insight behind these best practices is the realization that only 10-20% of the total end-user response time is spent getting the HTML document. You need to focus on the other 80-90% if you want to make your pages noticeably faster. These rules are the best practices for optimizing the way servers and browsers handle that 80-90% of the user experience.

• Rule 1 – Make Fewer HTTP Requests
• Rule 2 – Use a Content Delivery Network
• Rule 3 – Add an Expires Header
• Rule 4 – Gzip Components
• Rule 5 – Put CSS at the Top
• Rule 6 – Move Scripts to the Bottom
• Rule 7 – Avoid CSS Expressions
• Rule 8 – Make JavaScript and CSS External
• Rule 9 – Reduce DNS Lookups
• Rule 10 – Minify JavaScript
• Rule 11 – Avoid Redirects
• Rule 12 – Remove Duplicate Scripts
• Rule 13 – Turn Off ETags
• Rule 14 – Make AJAX Cacheable and Small

Buy the book

Credits: Steve Sounders

Download your free copy of “Web Designers Success Guide: how to profit from freelance web design” by Kevin Airgrid.

Description of the ebook from their site:

Web Designer’s Success Guide is the definitive guide to starting your own freelance Web design business. The author, Kevin Airgid, grossed over $100,000 USD a year developing sites for various national level clients. In this book he gives designers step-by-step instructions on how to achieve the following:

• Transition from full-time to self-employment
• Freelance on the side to make additional income
• Find new clients and keep them coming back for more
• Market your freelance business
• Manage your projects professionally
• Price your services appropriately

I read a part of this book now and it’s so enlightening. I’ll tell you more when I finish it… I highly recommend this to you guys wanting to learn about the design of everyday things.

Just got the book "The Elements of User Experience". Looks kinda cool and interesting… It’s by Jesse James Garrett from AdaptivePath. Book review will come in after I read it… Stand by.