By way of my favourite Bulgarian / Canadian / American / Web Ninja Stoyan Stefanov, and Yahoo!’s Exceptional Performance Team I’ve been studying the fine work found in their best practises guide for speeding up websites. As a recluse who prefers hiding behind servers rather than dancing around your web browser’s canvas, I was intrigued with their server side recommendations — however sparse they may be. In particular, flushing generated head content early to speed up overall page delivery and rending time was a technique new to me.
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