Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site

Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site -> http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#etags
Firebug -> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843
YSlow   -> http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/

HttpWebRequest and GZip Http Responses -> http://www.west-wind.com/WebLog/posts/102969.aspx