Slim down the website load time...

A drop in the bucket, but drops can add up:
Use a trailing slash on directory URLs.

This saves the server time spent trying to figure out if you are asking for a file, or a directory with the default file.

For example, a URL of http://www.google.net/sample technically means to fetch a file called sample in the root of google.net .

This means the server will have to check if such a file exists, and when it finds that such file does not exist, it will check if there is a directory by the name of "sample". When it does find a directory by that name, it will send back a message to the web browser saying "there is no such file, but there is a directory by that name, so here is the default file from the directory of sample".

Adding a slash at the end of the url, http://www.google.net/sample/ notifies the server off the bat, "Hey, fetch the default file from the sample directory on google.net ".

A little time saver for our overworked, under appreciated web servers.