There are 14 rules to speed up your website loading time let’s see what are the rules and how to check it.

Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site

1. Make fewer HTTP requests
2. Use a CDN
3. Add an Expires header
4. Gzip components
5. Put stylesheets at the top
6. Put scripts at the bottom
7. Avoid CSS expressions
8. Make JS and CSS external
9. Reduce DNS lookups
10. Minify JS
11. Avoid redirects
12. Remove duplicate scripts
13. Configure ETags
14. Make AJAX cacheable

The above 14 rules should satisfy for your website, you can also check these 14 rules and what are the changes to be done for your website by installing YSlow an Firebug extension for Firefox browser, which gives information about files that take more time to load.

Yslow extension gives the information about 14 rules and the changes to be done. Its a great tool for developers and webmasters, we are trying speed up Tothetech blog with the help of Yslow firebug extension.

Install Firebug Extension for Firefox browser, after that install Yslow

After installing you can get an icon at the end of Firefox browser or you can select Tools–>Firebug and select perfomance after opening a website.