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Simple trick to speed up your Yahoo! Store pages

If your store uses images or other files stored in the "Files" library, there is an easy trick to improve the response time of those files - and make your pages load faster. Typically you reference files from the library using this relative URL: /lib/yourstoreid/filename where you replace yourstoreid with the Yahoo account ID of your store. This is generally fine, because the Store is smart enough to expand this to the actual location of the file, which is at http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/yourstoreid/filename What I often see in stores is that the store operator enters things like this: http://www.yourdomainname.com/lib/yourstoreid/filename or http://lib.store.yahoo .com /lib/yourstoreid/filename What's wrong with that? Well, Yahoo! Store is still smart enough to find the correct file for you, but it doesn't come cheap. What happens is that the Yahoo! Store server does a redirect on these URLs so that they reference the file correctly from the lib.store.yahoo.net se