How do you speed your website up?

Arctic · - Joined: 24 Sep 2004 Posts: 560

I use Gzip. Does anyone have any other secret tips?

Tim1681 · Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2005 1:51 am Post subject:

Havent tried Gzip yet .. should I? What kind of speed or efficiency increases did u see when u used it?

Arctic · - Joined: 24 Sep 2004 Posts: 560

http://aprelium.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6686&highlight=gzip

That should help you out, TRUSTpunk can be a real help!

AbyssUnderground · - Joined: 31 Dec 2004 Posts: 3855

My secret is to make your HTML code as simple as possible and to make your images as small as possible. Use Adobe Photoshop or similar program to 'optimize' your image when you save it for best quality but high compression.

All of those 'WYSIWYG' webpage editors do not make HTML code very efficiently and should be avoided. Microsoft word is especially prone to this when you save a web page.

If you want a job doing properly, do it in proper hand written HTML code like I use!
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TRUSTAbyss · - Joined: 29 Oct 2003 Posts: 3752 Location: USA, GA

Here's a nice list of things you can do in order to reduce heavy amounts of
Bandwidth , these are the tricks that I use to speed up www.trustabyss.com

#1 You should use PHP's HTTP Gzip Compression
#2 Make your image size as small as possible
#3 Reduce the number of images on a web page.
#4 Archive downloads using ZIP or RAR Formats
#5 This is optional , crush the HTML code :-)

Now if you follow this procedure , you shouldn't have to deal with any issues
regarding Bandwidth , everyone should use this if they host their own site.

Sincerely , TRUSTpunk