Comments on: 1 Incredibly Wicked Trick To Speeding Up Your Blog’s Load Time http://wpbloghost.com/blog/gzip-compression/ Wed, 01 Sep 2010 06:12:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: John Hoff http://wpbloghost.com/blog/gzip-compression/comment-page-2/#comment-1704 John Hoff Sat, 26 Jun 2010 22:13:05 +0000 http://wpbloghost.com/blog/?p=2293#comment-1704 Hi Aaron, yeah I've heard of that plugin as well and I tested once a while back but I think it conflicted with another plugin or something else that I was doing, so I stuck with the WP Super Cache. The W3TC plugin looks to work really well. Thanks for the input. Hi Aaron, yeah I’ve heard of that plugin as well and I tested once a while back but I think it conflicted with another plugin or something else that I was doing, so I stuck with the WP Super Cache.

The W3TC plugin looks to work really well. Thanks for the input.

]]> By: Aaron http://wpbloghost.com/blog/gzip-compression/comment-page-1/#comment-1701 Aaron Sat, 26 Jun 2010 22:06:23 +0000 http://wpbloghost.com/blog/?p=2293#comment-1701 Hey John.. I've found a plugin called W3 Total Cache that has helped me MASSIVELY increase loading times by using compression, page caching, and database caching. I had never heard of it before I tried it.. always heard of WP Super Cache, but i find W3TC to work much better, it has memcached and CDN support, and just an overall great plugin. It might be worth mentioning in a future update to this blog post and compare the caching/compression plugins that exist out there. Hey John.. I’ve found a plugin called W3 Total Cache that has helped me MASSIVELY increase loading times by using compression, page caching, and database caching. I had never heard of it before I tried it.. always heard of WP Super Cache, but i find W3TC to work much better, it has memcached and CDN support, and just an overall great plugin. It might be worth mentioning in a future update to this blog post and compare the caching/compression plugins that exist out there.
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]]> By: John Hoff http://wpbloghost.com/blog/gzip-compression/comment-page-1/#comment-1635 John Hoff Mon, 24 May 2010 17:15:01 +0000 http://wpbloghost.com/blog/?p=2293#comment-1635 Good question and that's a full post on its own. 1. Put your javascript codes down at the bottom (just above the ending /body tag). This means your content and other images will load and be displayed first <em>and then</em> the slower javascript will load. 2. Usually not necessary, but if you're looking to squeeze every bit of speed out of your site, you can compress any of your external css files. What that does is remove all spacing between lines and effectively makes your css file one line of code. Google css compressor or something and you'll find an online tool for that. Just remember though, when you do that your css file will not be well written for editing. Make sure to keep a copy of the uncompressed version and use that to make changes. When your changes are done, create a compressed version and upload it to your site. 3. You can use .htaccess to compress statics sites. Check out this tutorial here. http://www.hunlock.com/blogs/Compressed_HTML_makes_your_pages_zippy 4. Make sure your images are compressed. For example, image.gif could be twice as big as image.jpg is. Be sure to convert and optimize images (something I need to be better about). Good question and that’s a full post on its own.

1. Put your javascript codes down at the bottom (just above the ending /body tag). This means your content and other images will load and be displayed first and then the slower javascript will load.

2. Usually not necessary, but if you’re looking to squeeze every bit of speed out of your site, you can compress any of your external css files. What that does is remove all spacing between lines and effectively makes your css file one line of code. Google css compressor or something and you’ll find an online tool for that. Just remember though, when you do that your css file will not be well written for editing. Make sure to keep a copy of the uncompressed version and use that to make changes. When your changes are done, create a compressed version and upload it to your site.

3. You can use .htaccess to compress statics sites. Check out this tutorial here.
http://www.hunlock.com/blogs/Compressed_HTML_makes_your_pages_zippy

4. Make sure your images are compressed. For example, image.gif could be twice as big as image.jpg is. Be sure to convert and optimize images (something I need to be better about).

]]> By: Yash http://wpbloghost.com/blog/gzip-compression/comment-page-1/#comment-1632 Yash Fri, 21 May 2010 06:27:47 +0000 http://wpbloghost.com/blog/?p=2293#comment-1632 What should i do, if i am running .html What should i do, if i am running .html

]]> By: Keith Davis http://wpbloghost.com/blog/gzip-compression/comment-page-1/#comment-1611 Keith Davis Mon, 10 May 2010 18:33:04 +0000 http://wpbloghost.com/blog/?p=2293#comment-1611 I had noticed your absence. Good to have you back. .-= Keith Davis´s last blog ..<a href="http://easypublicspeaking.co.uk/fear-of-public-speaking/">Flying in formation</a> =-. I had noticed your absence.
Good to have you back.
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]]> By: John Hoff http://wpbloghost.com/blog/gzip-compression/comment-page-1/#comment-1610 John Hoff Mon, 10 May 2010 17:48:10 +0000 http://wpbloghost.com/blog/?p=2293#comment-1610 Hey Keith. Thanks for the link and I'll check that out now. I'll put the WP-Super Cache video on my to-do list. I think that would be a good one. By the way, nice to hear from you again. I've been on a little break (as I'm sure you've noticed) from blogging, but I'm back (been on Twitter and email, though). Hope all has been well with you. Hey Keith. Thanks for the link and I’ll check that out now.

I’ll put the WP-Super Cache video on my to-do list. I think that would be a good one.

By the way, nice to hear from you again. I’ve been on a little break (as I’m sure you’ve noticed) from blogging, but I’m back (been on Twitter and email, though). Hope all has been well with you.

]]> By: Keith Davis http://wpbloghost.com/blog/gzip-compression/comment-page-1/#comment-1609 Keith Davis Mon, 10 May 2010 17:22:50 +0000 http://wpbloghost.com/blog/?p=2293#comment-1609 Hi John Came across an article post which talked about speeding up Wordpress sites and it reminded me of this article. Article is located at: http://www.howtospoter.com/web-20/wordpress/improve-wordpress-site-speed-to-improve-web-search-ranking The WP-Super-Cache plugin is mentioned plus it points out that a future version of this plugin will allow Googlebot to record a faster load speed for a site. I don't know how busy you are these days John... you being an Ebook millionaire and all LOL... but if you are looking for a video topic, how about installing and configuring WP-Super-Cache plugin. Yours in hope. .-= Keith Davis´s last blog ..<a href="http://easypublicspeaking.co.uk/fear-of-public-speaking/">Flying in formation</a> =-. Hi John
Came across an article post which talked about speeding up WordPress sites and it reminded me of this article.

Article is located at:
http://www.howtospoter.com/web-20/wordpress/improve-wordpress-site-speed-to-improve-web-search-ranking

The WP-Super-Cache plugin is mentioned plus it points out that a future version of this plugin will allow Googlebot to record a faster load speed for a site.

I don’t know how busy you are these days John… you being an Ebook millionaire and all LOL… but if you are looking for a video topic, how about installing and configuring WP-Super-Cache plugin.

Yours in hope.
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]]> By: silicon http://wpbloghost.com/blog/gzip-compression/comment-page-1/#comment-1580 silicon Sun, 11 Apr 2010 20:37:58 +0000 http://wpbloghost.com/blog/?p=2293#comment-1580 I had to edit php.ini to zlib.output_compression = On before this would work. My webhost had it off by default. Thanks! I had to edit php.ini to zlib.output_compression = On before this would work. My webhost had it off by default. Thanks!

]]> By: John Hoff http://wpbloghost.com/blog/gzip-compression/comment-page-1/#comment-1519 John Hoff Sun, 14 Mar 2010 15:50:13 +0000 http://wpbloghost.com/blog/?p=2293#comment-1519 No, I don't think you can use this technique for a free hosted blog on Blogger, but try <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=how+to+compress+blogger+blogs&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=" target="_blank">this search here</a> for some tips on doing something like it. No, I don’t think you can use this technique for a free hosted blog on Blogger, but try this search here for some tips on doing something like it.

]]> By: SchoolPaper Addict http://wpbloghost.com/blog/gzip-compression/comment-page-1/#comment-1517 SchoolPaper Addict Sun, 14 Mar 2010 09:08:28 +0000 http://wpbloghost.com/blog/?p=2293#comment-1517 Hello, do you know how I can apply this to my new blog? I opened up an account in blogspot.com. Thank you John. .-= SchoolPaper Addict´s last blog ..<a href="http://school-paper.blogspot.com/2010/03/somebody-hates-schoolwork-school-papers.html">Somebody Hates Schoolwork – School Papers Suck</a> =-. Hello, do you know how I can apply this to my new blog? I opened up an account in blogspot.com. Thank you John.
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