Optimizing javascript and css requests

Question

I need to optimize the loading speed of several existing websites. One of the issues that I have is the amount of requests per page. The websites have 7 or more different ty

Answer 1

One thing you should do is optimize your .htaccess file to compress and cache files properly:

# compress text, html, javascript, css, xml:  
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain  
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html  
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml  
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css  
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml  
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml  
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml  
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript  
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript

# cache media files
  
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=2592000"