Optimizing javascript and css requests

Question

I need to optimize the loading speed of several existing websites. One of the issues that I have is the amount of requests per page. The websites have 7 or more different ty

Answer 1

As always: it depends. The bigger the page-specific files are, the more sense it makes to keep them separate. If they're not big (think 10 kB minified) it probably makes more sense to join, minimize and compress them, so you can save some requests and rely on caching.