My two cents…
– Cut out unnecessary HTML such as comments, font changes, and table elements that are not needed. (Even though a one line comment may not seem like much, consider the effects of the same comment distributed throughout all your users and on all your webpages.)
– Use CSS to control appearance rather than changing fonts and appearance on every page.
– Define the dimensions of every image you use; this way the browser can continue displaying content even if the image hasn’t loaded yet
– Reduce image file sizes
– Remove any excess white space, tabs and carriage returns that you don’t need.
– Minimize Your Headers. Often an HTML editor will add a default tag known as the Generator tag such as
– Minimize DHTML Usage. Some DHTML effects weigh in at 40-60k in accompanying Javascript code.
– Consider external linking to your scripts (ie Javascipt and css)