Serve Your JavaScript Fast
Cal Henderson of Flickr fame has penned a great article for Vitamin that will show you how to Serve JavaScript Fast! As our web applications get richer and more interactive our JavaScript files seem to grow accordingly large. Add on to that the weight of some of the popular JS libraries, and pretty soon your page weight is up over 100K! Follow Cal’s tips to make sure you pages load as quickly as they can.
That was a really useful article, a lot of nifty tricks there, some that I think I will test out right away. It also was a great teaser for his book :) I think I will see if I can find it at my local bookstore.
I wish I could find a good plugin to firefox so I could easily simulate loading my webpages with a slower connection. I’ve been looking, but haven’t found any.