Nice set of instructions for speeding up your web pages

Today I was testing my site and I realized that one of the CDNs I was using was hanging.  Not wanting my website to be at the mercy of more failure points than necessary, I brought the hosted jQuery and Bootstrap files in house. 

The result was a surprise: good speed on Chrome but slow on Firefox.

Anyway, I found a nice resource on speeding up a web page with at lot of details that I hadn't learned before:

http://www.sitepoint.com/complete-guide-reducing-page-weight/

One interesting thing is that browsers have a limit for how many web requests they will make to one server at a time.  It's possible that it was this that made the difference between page load times on Firefox and Chrome.  It's a good argument for compiling all your CSS and JS together into one file each per page.

Glyphicons and CDN

The bootstrap template for a Carousel home page has little arrows called glyphicons that are broken by default.  Unless you use the versions of Bootstrap that are available through the CDN provider.  Here's a description of the problem and solution:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18245575/bootstrap-3-unable-to-display-glyphicon-properly/18245741#18245

bootstrap

http://getbootstrap.com/css/