pmbennett.net

Whilst designing the new skin for this site, I made the decision to go for a single page layout with a few other templates for the archive, portfolio and articles pages. I didn’t really consider the impications of this for the speed at which my page loads until I read Chris Coyier’s article about serving images from a subdomain. That got me thinking, especially with all the imagery I was going to need to use. So I had a think about what things I could do to either reduce the size of the page, reduce the number of requests and generally speed things up. Here are three steps I took to do this, which have actually shaved an average of 4 seconds off the page load time.