Speeding up Web Site

CSS Sprites

Minify CSS & Javascript

Gzip Compression

Compression Configuration in Server

Tomcat

- Edit Tomcat/conf/server.xml by adding to the connector element

<Connector port="8080" protocol="HTTP/1.1"
connectionTimeout="20000" redirectPort="8443"
compression="on" compressableMimeType="text/html,text/xml,text/plain,text/javascript,text/css" noCompressionUserAgents=".*MSIE 6.*"
/>





Reference

http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html 

http://betterexplained.com/articles/how-to-optimize-your-site-with-gzip-compression/

http://www.gidnetwork.com/tools/gzip-test.php

http://www.whatsmyip.org/http-compression-test