Comments on: Improve Site Speed with YSlow

By: » Why I Dropped Homepage Google Adsense

» Why I Dropped Homepage Google Adsense — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:11:20 +0000

[...] the user experience because I want to make the site the best it can be. That’s why I try to make it faster using tips from YSlow and why I, about a year and a half ago, decided to remove Google Adsense from [...]

By: TFB

TFB — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:38:27 +0000

Hostgator has mod_deflate as a premium feature for VPS hosting. So I doubt they will give it away unless I upgrade and pay more. Is there any way to pre-compress the css files manually and serve them? The css files don’t change that often. Thanks.

By: jim

jim — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:29:50 +0000

Man that stinks… is there anyway you can convince them to enable it?

By: TFB

TFB — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:51:15 +0000

Thank you for the writeup. You led me to some small improvements already. Too bad my host (Hostgator) does not enable mod_deflate or mod_gzip for shared hosting.

By: Pinyo

Pinyo — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:41:22 +0000

Good stuff!

By: » How to GZip CSS Files

» How to GZip CSS Files — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 14:01:07 +0000

[...] line and check your work. If all looks OK, check to see that it’s gzipped. If you are using YSlow, just run YSlow on your site. One of the grading factors is “Compress components with [...]

By: » Site Speed May Soon Affect Search Rankings

» Site Speed May Soon Affect Search Rankings — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:54:05 +0000

[...] site speed tools that you can use to make your site faster. The toolkit is more extensive than YSlow but the end goal is the same – identify the slow points in your site and help you improve [...]

By: jim

jim — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 03:33:44 +0000

Yeah, I put that in there purposely so the code wouldn’t be executed by the server… but I figured out how to get it right without the intentional syntax error.

By: Kosmo @ The Casual Observer

Kosmo @ The Casual Observer — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 21:20:03 +0000

There’s an errant space between the ? and php in the first line of the script. If you remove that, it will work much better

By: jim

jim — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:41:26 +0000

Yeah, it’s from Battlestar Galactica.