Website Performance Blog

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…)

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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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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