Reduce URL and Page Size

Optimize the use of URLs and minimize page size.

We recommend the following best practices for optimizing pages and URLs:

• Remove unused URL parameters and POST data. In B2C Commerce, you can enable SEO URLs that substantially shorten the standard URL.
• Remove features from first pages and landing pages.
• Use minimal, standard XHTML with minimal DOM nodes. For example, use the standard H3 HTML tag instead of a span class.
• Rely on CSS cascading to get rid of class information, rather than specifying it explicitly.
• Remove comments. Minimizing comments makes it harder to maintain the page, but makes it faster to load. For ISML templates, create ISML comments that use three dashes. The dashes are removed when the page is sent to the browser.

  For example, you can add the following comments in ISML:

   <!-- End User Can See --> <!--- Invisible to End User --->

  Comments in CSS, however, are always sent with the page.

  For example, you can add the following comment in CSS:

   /* Always Viewable */