Interesting post – I bet most people don’t understand that they can take measures to speed up their browsing. But let me as you something – in a world were most people aren’t savvy with the guts of their systems, or where mobile devices have limited bandwidth, should it really be the responsibility of the end user (consumers) to optimize?

I personally believe it’s the responsibility of website owners to take it upon themselves to bring the optimization to you. The problem is that most of them either don’t know how or simply neglect the practice.

My team released a tool recently that helps site owners find all their performance issues and walks them through fixing them. That’s the first step in speeding a website up. Even better, our proxy caches website content making sites 3x to 4x faster.

The goal here is to remove the burden from both the end users and web ‘masters’ so we can all get on with what we’re trying to do online without slow downs.

If you’re interested, give http://www.pagelabs.com a look – it’s our solution to this common and wide spread problem.

A good information hook is running something like Xenu on a target site & finding broken links then emailing the webmaster with a link to replace anything that’s broken (to one of your sites of course).