Website Performance Blog

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.

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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.

At this point you become concerned about your blog performance. Good news – there are many things to tune in Wordpress to make it work faster. Today I want to share several tips that will make your blog perform better.

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If you own at least one website, you might be interested in website performance issues. No wonder,  there are thousands of Content Management Systems (CMS) and custom-made website engines, and almost all of them require performance optimization. Even if your site consists of 15 HTML pages, there is something that can be improved. We assert that absolutely every website can be accelerated to consume less web server resources (CPU and RAM) and traffic while running. This means, your visitors are satisfied and come back again and again.

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