The weight as YSlow puts it are total file sizes that are being transmitted to client machines. Having a total weight of 564.6K could prove slow. The 44 requests mean that the client has to wait for 44 individual items to be sent before the page loads completely.
The caching part is what gets stored in the client browser cache so next time it doesn't need to load all the pieces. Make sense?
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Marked as answer by bbcompent1 on Feb 21, 2012 03:43 PM
If you're looking to optimize that, combine and compress your stylesheets and javascript files. 17 stylesheets is quite a few. See if you can get it down to 3 or 4 per request.
You can also combine CSS images into a single sprite to improve performance there. Here's a tool you can use to build sprites:
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Re: YSLOW 44 http requests weighing in at 564.4k bytes
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The weight as YSlow puts it are total file sizes that are being transmitted to client machines. Having a total weight of 564.6K could prove slow. The 44 requests mean that the client has to wait for 44 individual items to be sent before the page loads completely. The caching part is what gets stored in the client browser cache so next time it doesn't need to load all the pieces. Make sense?
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Re: YSLOW 44 http requests weighing in at 564.4k bytes
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If you're looking to optimize that, combine and compress your stylesheets and javascript files. 17 stylesheets is quite a few. See if you can get it down to 3 or 4 per request.
You can also combine CSS images into a single sprite to improve performance there. Here's a tool you can use to build sprites:
http://spritegen.website-performance.org/
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Re: YSLOW 44 http requests weighing in at 564.4k bytes
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it doesnt mean anything if your site is not slow.
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I got an 80/100, but I want to get it to 100/100. Thanks for the hints!
@tom22,
very true.
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