Learn from yahoo.com

Every developer dreams to have a website whose pagerank is 10 or daily reach percentage is 20+, but are you sure your sites wouldn't breakdown when facing with millions of clicks on a daily basis? Let's open the box of yahoo.com and have a look whats inside, shall we? :-)


Total Requests: 37
Page Size: 208K
Loading time: 1.68s

If we are not so sure how brilliant yahoo.com is, I am not being cruel, but lets have a look at sugarcrm.com:

Total Requests: 85
Page Size: 419K
Loading time: 8.68s

A Brief Conclusion:
[1] If an image/javascript is not really necessary, REMOVE it.
[2] If an image/javascript is considerably big, REPLACE it.
[3] Every little help :-)