getting an A on Yslow?
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- KO
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Hello,
Been trying to figure this out but if anyone has gotten an A grade from Yslow with their website let me know how you did it.
Although I'd say RT templates are fairly fast, esp. the new ones, I want to optimize it to a B or an A. Using rokzip has helped a bit but it there are other methods, I'd like to know.
On the joomla forums and probably with other templates, some people were able to achieve Bs and higher and what not. Most of my RT templates are on the C level like 70 or what not. Just did a test on rockettheme.com and it graded 74.
I also did a check up with joomlaperformance.com
www.joomlaperformance.com/component/opti...rformance/Itemid,52/
and of 14 categories only 5 pass... is that normal?
here are the results.
Grades
Type Your Value Recomnded Value Grade
InfoHTML Size 5kb 40kb
Pass
InfoTotal Size 218kb 100kb
Fail
InfoTotal Requests 43 30
Warning
InfoGeneration Time 0.164396 1 second
Pass
InfoNumber Of Hosts 4 2
Warning
InfoNumber Of Images 34 25
Warning
InfoSize Of Images 116kb 20kb
Fail
InfoNumber Of CSS Files 4 2
Warning
InfoSize Of CSS Files 20kb 10kb
Warning
InfoNumber Of Script Files 4 2
Warning
InfoSize Of Script Files 78kb 10kb
Warning
InfoHTML Encoding Gzip Gzip
Pass
InfoValid Html Valid Valid
Pass
InfoFrames 0 0
Pass
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- Rich Bean
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I wouldn't go too much by the joomla performance site grade.
Did you try running it on their domain as well? :shock: - My Sites:
Perth Website Design
Scuba Marketing
I'm a Henning Stalker!
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- Rich Bean
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In case you didn't run the tool on their own site...they only pass on 4 topics so like I said, don't worry about them too much
FYI...here's a couple of my sites using RT Templates
Grade B - 85 www.padi-instructor.com (Nexus)
Grade B - 89 www.entegygroup.com (Synapse)
YSlow REALLY likes you to add expires headers and etag to none to your htaccess file.
Try adding the following to your htaccess file:
FileETag None ExpiresActive On ExpiresDefault A600 ExpiresByType image/x-icon A2592000 ExpiresByType application/x-javascript A604800 ExpiresByType text/css A604800 ExpiresByType image/gif A2592000 ExpiresByType image/png A2592000 ExpiresByType image/jpeg A2592000 ExpiresByType text/plain A86400 ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash A2592000 ExpiresByType video/x-flv A2592000 ExpiresByType application/pdf A2592000 ExpiresByType text/html A600
Hope it helps.
Rich - My Sites:
Perth Website Design
Scuba Marketing
I'm a Henning Stalker!
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- KO
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Rich,
Thank you so much for your advice! I guess I don't have to worry so much about yslow. Another one I seem to be worried about but shouldn't be would be,
validator.w3.org/
I get errors but after doing a comparison with sites like google and yahoo, they seem to get more errors.
Your sites are nice btw! Glad to know that you're doing the PADI thing and was pretty shocked to find out that site was using joomla (I am a diver myself and occasionally look up PADI.)
Thanks for the advice!
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- KO
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- BTW, where did you get the code for the htaccess... I implemented it and it seems to be working fine. It could be just me but my site is working faster. Did a yslow analysis and it went up a point to a B.
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Time to create page: 0.105 seconds