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#1 2010-05-25 13:49:55
- Neko
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Site's Speed: Tips and Tricks
As you may aware of, Google announced it will rank sites by considering also performances, eg. weight of pages, speed.
While I don’t care much about how Google will rank my website regarding this matter, I think we can all agree that speeding things up, making lighter, fast-loading sites, is always a good practice.
Would you like to discuss tips and tricks in order improve performances?
First thing first, as Google suggests, I recommend installing the Page Speed Add-on for Firefox/Firebug.
Then, a simple trick I recently learned is “leveraging browser cache”, as the Page Speed Add-on suggests. In my case, I added this rule to my .htaccess file:
<FilesMatch "\.(ico|pdf|flv|jpg|jpeg|png|gif||swf)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=604800, must-revalidate"
</FilesMatch>
I don’t know if it’s totally correct, if the max-age or must-revalidate options are alright, but it seems that my site now loads faster than before.
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Re: Site's Speed: Tips and Tricks
There are plenty of solutions … asy_jpcache which offers a gzipped full page cache being one of the most efficient out of the box.
If you are interested in a tool which covers really many speeding solutions I recommend a look at the commercial WEBO solution. I am using the premium version as a beta tester and I have very good experiences with that ‘swiss army knife’.
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