Faster, thanks to YSlow
We recently ran our site against YSlow (the Firefox add-on for Firebug by Yahoo!) and it flagged up a few ways that we could speed up our site. So we’ve implemented the changes that it suggested (moving all links to JavaScript files to the bottom of each page, adding far future expire headers to all static content and minified all of our JavaScript).
And what a difference! The first time you visit the site, there won’t be that much of a difference, but once you have grabbed all the static files that are reused on each page, thanks to the far future expire headers, subsequent page loads as you move through the site should be noticably quicker than before.
In other news, there’s a big change to the site that we’re in the final stages of sorting out - hopefully we’ll be able to tell you all about it next week!
