Following on from yesterday's review of High Performance Web Sites, I had a quick go with YSlow, to see where I could optimise this site.
The starting point was a respectable score of C(71) for the home-page. The first rule that didn't score well was number 2: Use a Content Delivery Network. A CDN is over-kill for a blog, so that left me looking at the following rules 3 (Add Expires Header), 4 (Gzip components) and 13 (Configure Etags).
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