It makes sense that the first thing I should do is combine those javascript and css files. I certainly don't need 17 when 2 or 3 will do just fine. So, what I'm going to do is take all of my separate javascript files, open them up, and copy and paste the code into one large file. Yes, this makes editing a little more time ...
As I was redesigning this site, and preparing to redirect my domain to it - I decided that I would hold off on performing the optimization that is important to every website. Instead, I thought I would create a series of posts about the process - step by step so we can all witness how the site improves which each optimization performed. I'm going to try to go in the order presented by Yahoo and their YSlow firefox plugin, in order to present actual numbers related to the changes.
Currently, the site is totally unoptimized. I haven't removed redundant or unused styles from the CSS. The javascript isn't minified, its in the header, and each plugin is a ...