Comments on: Y Be Slow?

By: eRage webdesign

eRage webdesign — Thu, 27 May 2010 13:33:40 +0000

These sound like pretty good tips. I’m developing a “general” .htaccess for most websites we’re developing here.

Here’s my take on the whole optimization story:

# Deflate on
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml application/xml text/javascript text/css application/x-javascript application/xhtml+xml application/javascript
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip
BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
Header append Vary User-Agent env=!dont-vary

# ETag off
Header unset ETag
FileETag None

#Expires on
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresDefault A0
ExpiresByType application/x-javascript “access plus 1 weeks”
ExpiresByType text/css “access plus 1 weeks”
ExpiresByType image/gif “access plus 1 weeks”
ExpiresByType image/png “access plus 1 weeks”
ExpiresByType image/x-icon “access plus 1 weeks”
ExpiresByType image/ico “access plus 1 weeks”
ExpiresByType image/jpeg “access plus 1 weeks”
ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash “access plus 1 weeks”
ExpiresByType video/x-flv “access plus 1 weeks”

That’s the .htaccess part. Also, I like putting Javascript files at the bottom of the page for quicker loading. Hope I helped you guys with this!

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By: pjmorse

pjmorse — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 18:50:11 +0000

Domain Flipping: What a confidence-inspiring name you have! And what relevant advice to the entry on which you commented!

I appreciate your pointing out the nofollow issue; it seems to be too blunt an instrument for its purpose, and I have in fact turned it off. “Top Commenter” seems too much like a contest, however; I don’t care how often people comment, I care that they add useful ideas. (And, I should point out, the usefulness of their ideas is often in inverse proportion to their determination to push the URL of their business.)

To be more blunt, the steps you are suggesting sound to me like they’re designed to cater to those who wish to build their page-rank by planting their own URLs in as many places as possible on the site, regardless of the relevance or utility of those URLs to the content we’re attempting to provide. I think your motives and ours do not overlap terribly much.

By: Domain Flipping

Domain Flipping — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 08:04:05 +0000

I strongly recommend that you turn the No Follow off in your comment section.

I’ll watch Google Webmaster Tools, and if the links don’t show up after a couple of weeks — I won’t go back to that blog again.

Another suggestion: you should have a Top Commentator widget installed.

Do Follow and Top Commentator will ensure that you have a successful blog with lots of readers!

By: pjmorse

pjmorse — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:35:36 +0000

Sreenath, if you have control over the full Apache configuration (e.g. if this is a VPS) you can add that line to the virtual host configuration block. Otherwise, you should ask your hosting provider how to enable compression on .js and .css files.

By: Sreenath

Sreenath — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:32:15 +0000

Pjmorse,Thanks for ur response. i have put the code which u have suggested to place in .htaccess but it does not work for me.

By: pjmorse

pjmorse — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:20:27 +0000

Sreenath, the four configuration lines above (under “GZip Components”, starting with AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE) are the ones you want. Notice that for them to work in an .htaccess file, your host will need to have enabled directory-level configuration overrides; otherwise the .htaccess file will be ignored.

By: Sreenath

Sreenath — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:11:07 +0000

i need to Gzip the componenets css,js files which appearing for the web page .With the tool YSlow i identified that there are the compenenets which are not Gzip. we are using apache2.2 version .please provide the code to place in .httpaccess file .

For my web page it showing Grade F for the Gzip Componenets. reply me

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Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:53:08 +0000

[...] A “free” benefit of asset hosts is that by defining multiple asset hosts (a0 through an), you can fool a user’s browser into downloading your site through a dozen or more different connections, rather than just the two it limits itself two with any single server. Rails will make each asset link use a different asset host, and the browser will open two connections to each server, not caring that they all happen to be on the same box. This gets us extra YSlow points. [...]