How can I make my 1MB home page load faster?

Question

My home page is 1MB. For users with a 56k modem, that is enormous. My Home Page site from 500k have also used jquery.

What can I do to make the page load faster? Can I cache the ISP I use, and would that be useful?

EDIT

How can use gzip in asp.net?

Which type of cache is useful for web pages?

Answer 1

Enable gzip compression, minify HTML, ... follow YSlow recommendadtions. You could also send a light version of the page immediately and then load some parts using AJAX.

Answer 2

you can use lazy loading pattern, it means that you load content not the first time but on demand

Answer 3

You might like watching "Improving ASP.NET MVC Application Performance" by Steven Smith.

Answer 4

1MB is fairly chunky. You either have a LOT of third party libraries, widgets and so on, or there's some media files like images responsible. Take a look at the images you have in the page: a reasonably high-quality jpeg 800 x 600 should only be around 50k.

Answer 5

1MB is a lot for a home page particularly if you are expecting to have users coming over a 56k modem. I would start by reducing the size of your home page.