PHP Programming Tips

Minimizing HTTP Requests to Speed up your Page (Part 1)

Statistics and studies show that as much as 80% of the end-user’s time is spent on the loading of the front page which is not only time consuming but taxing on resources as well. Using simple and widely used tools and methods, it would be possible to cut the overhead quite considerably such as using image maps for contiguous images such as in navigation bars.

CSS Sprites is also a nifty way of reducing image display time, that combines all of the images onto one page using the CSS “background-image” and “background-position” function that tells at which coordinates the already loaded image for proper display.
Continued on the next post…….