For you my visitor I have tuned my blog using YSlow. I’m up to a ‘B’ score. Sorry it still has a number of JavaScript and “cloud” features that keep it a heavy page for HTTP requests.
excerpt of .htaccess:
FileETag none
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript text/html text/plain text/xml text/javascript application/javascript text/css
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip
BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
#css hack
<FilesMatch “\\.(css)$”>
SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
</FilesMatch>
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresByType text/css “access plus 1 month 15 days 2 hours”
ExpiresByType application/javascript “access plus 1 month 15 days 2 hours”
ExpiresByType image/gif “access plus 1 month 15 days 2 hours”
ExpiresByType image/jpeg “access plus 1 month 15 days 2 hours”
ExpiresByType image/png “access plus 1 month 15 days 2 hours”
ExpiresByType image/x-icon “access plus 1 month 15 days 2 hours”
</IfModule>