excellent presentation

Stoyan and I were discussing this and wondered if there was a way to have longer cache times and update resources when necessary. We came up with a solution. It’s simple and reliable. Adopting this pattern will reduce unnecessary HTTP requests resulting in faster pages and happier users, as well as better Page Speed and YSlow scores.

RED checks HTTP resources to see how they use HTTP, makes suggestions, and finds common protocol mistakes.

Today I want to focus on a 3rd party library which wasn’t using compression because it leads to an important and often unmentioned performance lesson: Don’t link to resources inside of source code repositories.