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@Velocio
I change things subtly.
Yesterday I changed a @import to a . Really subtle... but it makes the pages feel like they've loaded faster.
I only put in here the things I think you'll notice.
I changed the serving of jquery javascript to google servers as it's extremely likely that another site you've visited uses jquery too and also points to them... it means that when you come here you avoid having to make a 50K download.
Better than that though, even if you do need to download the file your browser will see that it's on a different domain and will start to grab it... browsers are usually constrained to only fetching x number of items from any one domain at a time... so by serving the javascript from the google domain I can trigger a parallel download from google which is also going to be faster than getting it from us.
So it's a win-win.... you either have the file already or you get the file faster than I could give it to you.
The ONLY downside is for the https users as now every page has mixed content rather than just the thread pages that contain external images. Which is an annoyance if you haven't yet turned off the nag message in IE and are forced to use IE because you're at work. That's the only downside to grabbing the javascript from Google.