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Speed up - HTTP requests, CSS consolidate, etc.

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  • Speed up - HTTP requests, CSS consolidate, etc.

    Posted 14 years 9 months ago
    • I'm hoping to start a conversation with this thread about what really needs to be done to speed up these killer RocketTheme sites.

      For my site I run Yslow and Google Page Speed and get a very poor grade.

      I have set the following :

      1. Global Config - Gzip ON, Joomla cache OFF (thought somewhere I needed to have this OFF)
      2. RokGZipper - enabled
      3. checked with my host (bluehost) - they do support gzip and I've added some code to my .htaccess for this
      4. tried to enable CssJsCompress - appeared to do some things but tweaked the site ... turned it OFF

      Main culprits for the poor speed grades are :

      1. missing expire headers - mostly due to 3rd party extensions - how do you fix this ? I tried a few .htaccess mods but they don't seem to be actually doing anything - must have something wrong ...
      2. fewer HTTP requests - 13 JS files and 10 CSS - how come they aren't combining better ?
      3. Gzip not used - what ? well, it's working for some file but 8 of my CSS or JS files are not Gzipping at all
      4. not using a CDN (content delivery network) - is that different from CMS (Joomla) ?
      5. Javascript loading at the top (vs. bottom) - how do you fix this ?
      6. configure Etags - again, added some code to .htaccess but doesn't seem to help

      Any help would be greatly appreciated and I think others will benefit from this thread if it becomes active and information packed!

      Thanks in advance,

      Ed (Joomla newbie)

      http://www.Jedzebel.com
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  • Re: Speed up - HTTP requests, CSS consolidate, etc.

    Posted 13 years 6 months ago
    • Your site loads fine with me..but..

      1. Too many modules..for e-commerce you don't need the person to scroll down the whole 5 pages you have.

      2. Lay off the orange (won't help speed but will help my eyes!)

      3. compress those images!

      4. DUmp that hello bar!

      5. Lay off animation for rok nav menu!
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  • Re: Speed up - HTTP requests, CSS consolidate, etc.

    Posted 13 years 6 months ago
    • Thanks for the reply!

      I was already on board to can the Hello Bar - gone!

      Yes, orange is due to change with template update to be done soon ...

      Compress images - I already ran nearly everything save the RT png's through SmushIt - did you mean the RT png's for styling as well ?

      I suppose I could get rid of some modules and create smaller buttons for those functions, etc.

      Again, thanks for the advice. Any ideas on my OP ? Such as Etags, combining JS files into one via Joomla, etc. ?

      Ed
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