*very* cool Javascript combiner and minifier

Using JQuery and assorted plugins, I was getting the the point where I was including about 10 js files on every request. Due to the limited threading of same-domain requests, this creates an obvious latency (more on that at: http://www.websiteoptimization.com/speed/tweak/suture/ ). I wanted to try to combine all these files into one and found a ridiculously bad ass tool at http://www.scriptalizer.com

Basically you upload your js files in the order they are in your page and it not only combines them but minifies them too. It shaved almost 60K off of every requests and now, I am only making a single request.

Just figured I would share!

 

Another thing you can do is use Google's AJAX api and just host your jquery file on google's server.

 

Yes, I was a little worried about the google script hosting but it works very well