Enabling/disabling Cache and Gzip caused errors
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- starlight
- Jr. Rocketeer
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Never mind, a Joomla dev recommended an extension called JCH Optimize. It's astounding how well it compresses, minifies and gzips CSS, JS and HTML files, and reduces HTPP requests. It did a great job and reduced our file size by just over 50% which was well over what the other gzippers did. In terms of speed, it took us from a YSlow grade F to a C or B one depending on the page and what's on it.
We had to disable two of the options though, for deferring and placing JS files at the bottom, as it broke the RokWeather extension and JCE editor. But they do warn you that enabling all options might break some parts of your site depending on certain factors. Otherwise, no problems whatsoever. I haven't yet played around with some of the advanced options which includes excluding extensions to try to avoid breakages, so maybe it might work for RokWeather and JCE after all, which would have saved us at least another 100 kb.
I did try also caching it with Joomla's cache in global config, but any difference was negligible. As we tend to add or update articles several times a day, we also need to be able to see instant edits without waiting for the cache to clear or having to keep deleting the cache for the changes to show. So we decided caching wasn't worth it, especially when JCH Optimize did such a wonderful job.
For those of you who've had problems with either Gantry's and/or Joomla's gzip, you might want to test the JCH Optimize instead, particularly as it does more than just gzip.
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