Suggestions for more speed

[pmeenan]

You have something in between your js and the page content that appears to be breaking IE's lookahead parser/prefetcher (break in the waterfall at 1.2s). IE can be particularly fussy and prone to problems around there but getting some more parallelism there would get you a few tenths of a second. From the looks of the HTML it looks like the IE conditional comment is to blame - if you put an empty conditional comment up at the top of the HTML it should hopefully eliminate the blocking.

Here is the main article from Stoyan I use as a reference on the conditional comment issue: http://www.phpied.com/conditional-commen...downloads/

As far as static content goes, for WebPagetest it pretty much considers anything without an explicit nocache or private as being static :-)