Performance and SEO Best Practices for Skin and Module Developers

There have been a lot of discussion and some good white paper references recently on optimizing DNN based sites including modules, skins and server level. This presentation will walk thru optimization from a skin and module level with best practices and samples of bad and good methods to bettering your site performance. Site based optimization covers the following:

* Container and Skin package
      o CSS files combined into one for each package
      o Sprite Image
      o Minimal DOM Elements
      o Avoid CSS Expressions
* Loading of external file and lowering the amount of server requests
      o Combining JavaScripts and libraries into minimal amount of files
      o Eliminating 404 Errors
* Add Expires Headers
* Cache and compression
      o Module
      o Site
      o Compressing JavaScript
      o Initializing GZip on the server

Speakers

Matt Hammer - Design and Skin Engineer from R2integrated

Nick Christy - Director of Technology from R2integrated