This repository contains adjustments for a vanilla Magento CE 1.6.1 install. Since the default theme of Magento is a fallback from all other themes, it makes sense to optimize all frontend files for best speed performance.

• Optimized PNGs by Smush.it™ (http://www.smushit.com/ysmush.it/)
• Concatenated/Optimized Stylesheets
• Incorporated html5boilerplate in default theme (https://github.com/zeljkoprsa/Magento-Boilerplate)
• Normalized Form Styles by Formalize (http://formalize.me/)

• upgraded to Magento CE 1.6.1
• upgraded to jquery 1.6.4

• optimized all PNGs with http://www.smushit.com/ysmush.it/

• moving css images to Data-URIs with http://duris.ru/lang/en/

• deleting all superfluous images

• changing default head inserts to optimized styles

• added additional rules to .htaccess (mainly borrowed from http://html5boilerplate.com/)

• keep in mind, that mod_pagespeed is enabled by default in .htaccess!

• incorporated main parts of Magento-Boilerplate (https://github.com/zeljkoprsa/Magento-Boilerplate) into default theme

• added formalize (http://formalize.me/)