Page Speed Test

[bowersbros]

Got bored so ran a speed test on every page on your website (how cool am I?!)

I used a google service to perform this and they rated you 87/100 thats pretty good.

here's what they suggested for each page:

home.html

High priority. These suggestions represent the largest potential performance wins for the least development effort. However, there are no high priority suggestions for this site. Good job!

Medium priority. These suggestions may represent smaller wins or much more work to implement. You should address this item next:
Leverage browser caching

Low priority. These suggestions represent the smallest wins. You should only be concerned with these items after you've handled the higher-priority ones:
Inline Small JavaScript, Minify JavaScript, Minify CSS, Specify a character set, Specify a Vary: Accept-Encoding header

Rules without suggestions. There are no suggestions for these rules, since this page already follows these best practices. Good job!

Those are the same on every page; except the banners.html where you got rated: 77/100

High priority. These suggestions represent the largest potential performance wins for the least development effort. You should address this item first:
Leverage browser caching
Medium priority. These suggestions may represent smaller wins or much more work to implement. You should address this item next:
Optimize images
Low priority. These suggestions represent the smallest wins. You should only be concerned with these items after you've handled the higher-priority ones:
Specify a cache validator, Inline Small JavaScript, Minify JavaScript, Minify HTML, Minify CSS, Specify a character set, Specify a Vary: Accept-Encoding header
Rules without suggestions. There are no suggestions for these rules, since this page already follows these best practices. Good job!

Full report:
http://pagespeed.googlelabs.com/#url=ht ... bile=false

[jacek]

Google have an add-on for this too

http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/

Pretty useful

The forum index page gets 17 / 100 I think.

[bowersbros]

for me it says 26/100

At least when you build yours it will be better

[jacek]

It will be 100

If thats even possible/

[bowersbros]

Well, i assume if you fix all their suggestions, then you should get it?

[jacek]

I guess we will find out when my exams are over.

[libeco]

And once you reach 100 with Google Page Speed, your next milestone will be to get a high score in ySlow, which is usually harder to achieve...

[jacek]

I tend not to be that interested by this kind of thing, it's so much easier to use separate image and not css sprites

[libeco]

Than just base64 encode them for capable browser and cache the html output...

And minimize and group your css and js files ofcourse.

[jacek]

Than just base64 encode them for capable browser and cache the html output...

That's even more effort

Browser should cache images anyway.

[libeco]

Well you see, there's a very nice CodeIgniter library that does the heavy lifting for you... you're the one always insisting on writing everything yourself...

Less HTTP-requests is actually faster than browsers caching images. Certainly when gzipping and caching html.

[jacek]

there's a very nice CodeIgniter library that does the heavy lifting for you...

I could write a php script to do the same thing in about 5 minutes, but it would be unnecessary work for the server

[bowersbros]

which remember is going to have like 20GB ram to spare

[jacek]

which remember is going to have like 20GB ram to spare

Possibly, but none of that can be wasted

[libeco]

Why would this be wasting? It's using something you pay for, while helping users get an overall better experience...

[jacek]

while helping users get an overall better experience...

Only people with dial-up or on phones.

Using images and having separate requests can be fast enough

[JelvinJS7]

I guess we will find out when my exams are over.

How far are you in building your forum?

[jacek]

How far are you in building your forum?

Basics are done, but the default theme needs re-doing and there are no admin / moderator features yet.