Website Performance Guide Step 1. File Size Minimization
The first step on your way to a very fast website is object size minimization. What files must be minified? What are the best minimization techniques? How object size minimization will affect your visitors’ experience? Read our Website Performance Guide Step 1 to find the answers to all your questions.
What files should you compress? Well, in fact the right answer is – all the files. First, let’s start with text files. You must remove all the HTML & Javascript comments, line breaks, tabs. If you are going to do it manually, you are crazy – there are lots of automated tools that can do all the cleaning job. (more…)
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There are 6 basic strategies to improve your website performance. I am going to name them in this post and describe them more thoroughly in my future materials. Of course, you cannot boost your website performance if you do only one thing. But if you succeed in at least 3 – your site’s visitors will definitely appreciate your effort!
Today I am going to tell you how to configure Apache server to gzip the files that are requested from your server. GZIP techology was introduced in 1992 however even today many sites do not have GZIP enabled. Although it helps to open pages 4-5 times faster than usually, and is 100% supported by modern browsers, many webmasters don’t even know such a thing exists. I won’t describe how great it is to use GZIP on your server, as you can find this information in Wikipedia and/or Google. What I’m going to tell you, is how to configure your Apache 1.3.x server easily.
Wordpress platform is perfect for everyday blogging, it’s easy to install and use, but only until your posts begin attracting public attention. As soon as your blog becomes popular, it takes more and more time for the pages to load and of course your readers don’t like this. Gradually you start hating all the shiny features that Wordpress usually boasts of.