When it comes to simple things that people ought to be doing, there is the famous trailing slash problem in URLs. Now, I don't expect people to start typing in http://www.port80software.com/ anytime soon, but I can say that Web developers really need to be doing their HTML properly...
Instead of this:
What about?:
/>Go to Port80's Fortune 1000 survey
That extra slash is going to save you a round trip because the Web server has to return a 301 redirect response and send the browser to /surveys/ when the non-full qualified URL is sent. Now, if you are linking directly to index.html files, you don't have to worry -- but, then again, you have nice ugly URLs. So, do your URL/URIs and markup right and have cleaner URLs and less round-trips which will make for a faster site -- and it will only cost you a single byte each time!
Oh, and the example should hint to you that it is survey time again at Port80 Software, and we have some new results for you... some of which might really surprise you.
Stay tuned. Same batty channel, same Windows-based global time.
Cheers,
The Port