Reduce HTTP requests or not?

Question

A theoretical question:
We all know about the pro\'s of minifying and combining javascript files in order to reduce HTTP requests to speed up a website. But when popular jav

Answer 1

Omar al Zabir runs a site called pageflakes and has a slew of articles on how to improve performance. One of them in particular explains how to compress and combine all kinds of things at the server side before sending to the client.

You can also use css image sprites to reduce HTTP requests. They help a LOT for commonly used images.

*I certainly don't have a huge production site, but these things definitely helped save on bandwidth costs.