pageoneresults - 5:55 pm on Jan 14, 2008 (gmt 0)

1. Make Fewer HTTP Requests

Here's some impressive statistics...

Google - 2 http requests at 14,438k total.

WebmasterWorld - 4 http requests at 59,139k total.

Live - 5 http requests at 22,640k total.

And, not so impressive?

Yahoo! - 77 http requests at 353,113 total.

CNN - 262 http requests at 712,377k total.

For the CNN site, 175 of those requests are CSS background images.