Taking a quick look at http://www.webreference.com/authoring/languages/html/optimize/ and http://djnewsplus.com/page/0,,7_0001,00.html leads me to the following action items:

• Convert everything to XHTML 1.0
• Purge HTML of presentation markup and move entirely to CSS
• Shrink style names in CSS file
• Shrink Javascript files (short variable names, remove ws, include at the end with onload)
• Get rid of comments in HTML
• Shrink URLs and apply mod_rewrite (e.g. "/search/advanced" becomes "/sa" or "/article/0,,SB108133380679444571,00.html?mod=t100_Latest_On_Stocks_Bonds" becomes "/a/SB108133380679444571/7" or /search?LINKTEXT=Telecommunications&NWCODE=I/TLS&NWCODE=I/CTS becomes /kc/12)
• Use mod_gzip to compress HTML on the fly
• Get rid of meta tags, other than autorefresh
• Put lengthy parameter lists into the servlets/jsps themselves

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