Serving static content from a cookieless domain

[pmeenan]

Yeah, you have few enough resources that the DNS lookup time for the separate domain is using up any benefits you might see from sharding (and you have so few resources that sharding won't help anyway).

Right now your 6 connections are tied up downloading the css and javascript. If you can merge any of the css files together that will free up a connection to download some of the image resources. Moving the javascript to the end of the page will also help if there are no inline dependencies (will let the browser focus on downloading the visible elements first).