I was getting a 72/100 score from Google Page Speed, so I attempted to improve that a bit.

I added caching to static resources via the web config, which raised my score by about 10:

<staticContent>
  <clientCache cacheControlMode="UseMaxAge" cacheControlMaxAge="365.00:00:00" />
  <remove fileExtension=".mp4" />
  <remove fileExtension=".gif" />
  <remove fileExtension=".htm" />
  <remove fileExtension=".html" />
  <remove fileExtension=".jpeg" />
  <remove fileExtension=".jpg" />
  <remove fileExtension=".js" />
  <remove fileExtension=".png" />
  <remove fileExtension=".txt" />
  <mimeMap fileExtension=".mp4" mimeType="video/mp4" />
  <mimeMap fileExtension=".gif" mimeType="image/gif" />
  <mimeMap fileExtension=".htm" mimeType="text/html" />
  <mimeMap fileExtension=".html" mimeType="text/html" />
  <mimeMap fileExtension=".jpeg" mimeType="image/jpeg" />
  <mimeMap fileExtension=".jpg" mimeType="image/jpeg" />
  <mimeMap fileExtension=".js" mimeType="application/x-javascript" />
  <mimeMap fileExtension=".png" mimeType="image/png" />
  <mimeMap fileExtension=".txt" mimeType="text/plain" />
</staticContent>

New page score: 82/100

I then made sure that all of my custom javascript files went through the javascript handler in BlogEngine, which raised my score to by 3:

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" 
src="/js.axd?path=%2fmyuploads%2fbf_script.js&minify="></script>

New page score: 85/100

I then uninstalled the syntax highlighter extension from BE. This upped my page rank by another 3.

New page score: 88/100

There’s still some room for improvement, though… I want to get as close as possible to 100 🙂