How to make your site faster: use web standards!

Justin Garret from the IE team published a post on the Exploring IE blog late last week that explains how web standards not only help reduce the cost of development and the complexity of testing across browsers and devices, but also achieves noticeable performance benefits.

Justin’s post describes results of performance tests run on sites before and after upgrading them to web standards, demonstrating an average of 30% better page load time in IE10. Developers can also read in Justin’s post recommendation on how to upgrade their sites.

Microsoft’s commitment to web standards involves not just implementing all the stable specifications edited by W3C, but also in actively participating in the definition of these standards by co-chairing the W3C HTML Working Group, proposing specs, sharing early implementations of the spec proposals on HTML5 Labs, demonstrating early implementations in the upcoming products on IE test drive. These are then delivered in release products after getting feedback from developers and users from HTML5 Labs and IE Test drive.

We at Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. actively participate in the open standards process, are deeply engaged with the industry in the W3C, are developing and publishing prototypes in collaboration with the IE team, and engage with the community to gather input and feedback.

Check out Justin's post on the Exploring IE blog to learn more about how to make your site faster using web standards.