Comments on: 1 Incredibly Wicked Trick To Speeding Up Your Blog’s Load Time

By: John Hoff

John Hoff — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 15:50:13 +0000

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

SchoolPaper Addict — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 09:08:28 +0000

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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By: Keith Davis

Keith Davis — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 09:42:37 +0000

Thanks John

I’ll give the “PHP in header” method a try today and check out the site in IE 6!

The “Port 8o” software is a great visual way to see those file reductions and it’s telling me that I can make some big savings.
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By: John Hoff

John Hoff — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 22:50:48 +0000

Hey Keith. There’s not much of a speed difference that I’ve seen between compression using PHP vs. .htaccess.

In general, .htaccess is a better way of doing things since it’s read even before Google starts loading your site. The PHP way might be a little easier to implement because it’s just a line or two of code to copy/paste whereas the .htaccess code is a little more complex.

I’d say enable the compression through the WP Super Cache plugin and go ahead and use the PHP one as well… it’s what I do.
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By: Keith Davis

Keith Davis — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 18:45:22 +0000

Hi John
Still looking at speeding up via gzip.
Looking at my Google Webmaster diagnostics, I notice that google recommends using gzip so I’m going to give it a go.

Quick question…

The method you demo in the video uses code in the header.php, “WP Super Cache compression uses gzip through .htaccess” and I have spotted a few posts out there on adding code to .htaccess in order to activate gzip.

Is one method superior to the other, or is it simply a case of you pays your money….?
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By: John Hoff

John Hoff — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 04:47:41 +0000

Hey Sid. Just checked your site and you’re compressed and ready to go.

The WP Super Cache compression uses gzip through .htaccess and is definitely another way of doing it.

So you’re all good.

By: Rockstar Sid

Rockstar Sid — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 04:25:35 +0000

John,

There is a feature known as ‘Super cache compression’ in wp-super-cache which I have enabled as the code you have mentioned didn’t quite work out because of the theme which is quite complicated.

Can you let me know if this is the right thing to do? It shows as compressed
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By: John Hoff

John Hoff — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 19:05:12 +0000

Yeah let me know about IE6.

gzip is compatible with IE6 service pack 2, but anything earlier it is not. I thought zlib would cause the same issues though, but let me know.
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By: Keith Davis

Keith Davis — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 13:24:19 +0000

Hi John
I’ve read the Brad Ney article and will give his zlib method a try.
Brad thinks that the zlib compression should be OK with IE6.

I’ll make sure that IE6 is behaving, check the speed using the “port80″ software and report back the results.
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By: John Hoff

John Hoff — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:29:00 +0000

Hi Deb. It could be an issue with your web host. Brad (another commentator above) had a similar issue because the compression wasn't compatible with his web host. The work around is to use zlib compression. He wrote an article on how he got his to work here.