======Web Page Optimization======
In order to improve the speed in which the website is being served to our users, these are some of the tools and processes used to optimize the website. 
=====Microdata=====
An addition to HTML5, this is [[http://dev.w3.org/html5/md/ markup]] that is used by Google, Bing, and Yahoo!
%%(html)
<div itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Organization"> 
	<span itemprop="name">L’Amourita Pizza</span>
	Located at 
	<span itemprop="address" itemscope 
	  itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Address">
	  <span itemprop="street-address">123 Main St</span>, 
	  <span itemprop="locality">Albuquerque</span>, 
	  <span itemprop="region">NM</span>.
	</span>
	Phone: <span itemprop="tel">206-555-1234</span>.
	<a href="http://www.example.com" itemprop="url">http://pizza.example.com</a>.
</div>
%%

=====""JavaScript""=====
Technique to defer loading of ""JavaScript"" files when they are not required to execute until after ''onload'' event. [[https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/best-practices/payload#DeferLoadingJS DeferLoadingJS]]

=====Links=====
**""SmushIt""**:[[http://www.smushit.com/ Yahoo! Image Optimizer]]
**""PageSpeed""**:[[https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights Google's Page Speed Analyzer]]
**Webmaster Tools**:[[https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ Google's Webmaster Tools]]
**""JavaScript"" Optimizer**:[[https://developers.google.com/closure/ Google's JavaScript Compiler]]
**Web Page Test**:[[https://www.webpagetest.org/compare Measure Web Site Performance]]
**Microdata Schemas**:[[http://www.schema.org/]]

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