Web Developers sometimes use file.ext?v=004 as a version control system to force visitors to use updated files. This is terrible. Instead link to apache-003.css and set it to be cached forever. When you change the file you just change the links to apache-004.css. That eliminates millions of bandwidth and resource robbing If-Modified-Since requests. You only need Apache with mod_rewrite, and 1-10 minutes!
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Optimize a Website for Speed, Security, and Easy Management
Saturday, October 18th, 2008Learn how to setup, configure, secure, optimize, and create a low-maintenance website the AskApache way. I’m piecing together all the hacks, tricks, methods, and ideas discussed throughout this blog and all across Netdom and glueing them all together to show you how to have the most optimized, crazy fastest, and best website setup I can think of.
Fsockopen Power Plays
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008PHP’s fsockopen function lets you open an Internet or Unix domain socket connection for connecting to a resource, and is one of the most powerful functions available in the php language.
Speed Tips: Add Cache-Control Headers
Monday, March 10th, 2008
Using Cache-Control headers you can specify which types of proxies can cache certain content, and how long files should be cached.
Preload flash .flv files into browser cache
Monday, February 4th, 2008How I was able to preload many flash flv and swf files on one of my clients sites that has a lot of online video and relatively small traffic. Their site visitors would usually watch 3-10 videos per visit and so to make the videos load almost instantly on every page I came up with a way to preload the top 10 .flv files and the swf flv player files as soon as the visitor successfully started watching the 1st video. Of course I also setup .htaccess caching on the server so that once they downloaded the files into their cache they would never request them from the server again. I was having fun with this so its pretty funky and uses some really cool combinations of javascript, swf preloader from xml, css classes to help automate it all..
Speed Tips: Remove Last-Modified Header
Monday, September 10th, 2007If you remove the Last-Modified and ETag header, you will totally eliminate If-Modified-Since and If-None-Match requests and their 304 Not Modified Responses.
Speed Tips: Turn Off ETags
Monday, September 10th, 2007
By removing the ETag header, you disable caches and browsers from being able to validate files, so they are forced to rely on your Cache-Control and Expires header.
Speed Tips: Turn On Compression
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
Use the Apache module mod_deflate to compress your static .css and .js files, speeding your site up like crazy!
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