3 Strategies for Boosting Holiday Website Speed

There are more technical image weight management techniques worth looking into, such as using sprites to combine images as well as inlining small images as data URIs. A quick Google search will get you started with this.

2. CSS: Many e-commerce sites today are driven by CSS, which can contribute to heavy and slow web pages. A good place to start with CSS is combining several CSS files into one. This can literally mean copying the text of a file, pasting it onto the end of another file of the same type and renaming the script so that you remember where the file resides. This achieves two goals: one, it simplifies the CSS code and two, it turns three separate loads into one single load.