Speed Up Your Site: Use a slash on your links

When a server opens a link in the form of “http://www.domain.com/about” it will need to figure what kind of file or webpage is contained on that address, wasting time on the process. If instead of using that link you include a slash (“/”) at the end like “http://www.domain.com/about/” the webserver will already know that the link points to a directory, reducing the time to load the page.

The improvement in the loading time of links ending with a slash will not be astronomical, but when it comes to speeding up a website every small bit helps!

Speed Up Your Site Series:

• Optimize Images
• Image Formats
• Optimize Your CSS
• Use a Slash on Your Links
• Use the Height and Width Tags
• Reduce the HTTP Requests