Werk for Hire » gzip http://www.werkforhire.com/blog Wed, 13 May 2009 21:07:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 Optimize your frontend http://www.werkforhire.com/blog/2009/05/optimize-your-frontend/ http://www.werkforhire.com/blog/2009/05/optimize-your-frontend/#comments Tue, 05 May 2009 16:51:54 +0000 admin http://www.werkforhire.com/wordpress/?p=1 The following is a list of code snippets and urls and tools to improve site performance.

htaccsss file :


############################################
## enable apache served files compression
## http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#gzip

# Insert filter
SetOutputFilter DEFLATE

# Netscape 4.x has some problems...
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html

# Netscape 4.06-4.08 have some more problems
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip

# MSIE masquerades as Netscape, but it is fine
BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
# Don't compress images
SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \.(?:gif|jpe?g|png)$ no-gzip dont-vary

# Make sure proxies don't deliver the wrong content
#Header append Vary User-Agent env=!dont-vary




    ExpiresActive On
    ExpiresByType text/javascript "A604800"
    ExpiresByType text/css "A604800"
    ExpiresByType image/x-icon "A31536000"
    ExpiresByType image/gif "A604800"
    ExpiresByType image/jpg "A604800"
    ExpiresByType image/jpeg "A604800"
    ExpiresByType image/png "A604800"

image compression: smush it

js min: dean packer or js min

css min:css compressor or css optimiser

cdn :Amazon’s S3 CDN

s3up php s3 uploader (set far future headers for static content)

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