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Page Speed Test
Posted: Fri May 27, 2011 2:00 pm
by 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
Re: Page Speed Test
Posted: Fri May 27, 2011 3:18 pm
by 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.
Re: Page Speed Test
Posted: Fri May 27, 2011 4:47 pm
by bowersbros
for me it says 26/100
At least when you build yours it will be better
Re: Page Speed Test
Posted: Fri May 27, 2011 5:34 pm
by jacek
It will be 100
If thats even possible/
Re: Page Speed Test
Posted: Fri May 27, 2011 7:05 pm
by bowersbros
Well, i assume if you fix all their suggestions, then you should get it?
Re: Page Speed Test
Posted: Fri May 27, 2011 7:57 pm
by jacek
I guess we will find out when my exams are over.
Re: Page Speed Test
Posted: Sat May 28, 2011 4:39 pm
by 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...
Re: Page Speed Test
Posted: Sat May 28, 2011 6:37 pm
by 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
Re: Page Speed Test
Posted: Sat May 28, 2011 7:37 pm
by libeco
Than just base64 encode them for capable browser and cache the html output...
And minimize and group your css and js files ofcourse.
Re: Page Speed Test
Posted: Sat May 28, 2011 8:25 pm
by jacek
libeco wrote:Than just base64 encode them for capable browser and cache the html output...
That's even more effort
Browser should cache images anyway.
Re: Page Speed Test
Posted: Sat May 28, 2011 9:21 pm
by 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.
Re: Page Speed Test
Posted: Sat May 28, 2011 10:30 pm
by jacek
libeco wrote: 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
Re: Page Speed Test
Posted: Sun May 29, 2011 7:46 am
by bowersbros
which remember is going to have like 20GB ram to spare
Re: Page Speed Test
Posted: Sun May 29, 2011 10:08 am
by jacek
bowersbros wrote:which remember is going to have like 20GB ram to spare
Possibly, but none of that can be wasted
Re: Page Speed Test
Posted: Sun May 29, 2011 11:24 am
by libeco
Why would this be wasting? It's using something you pay for, while helping users get an overall better experience...
Re: Page Speed Test
Posted: Sun May 29, 2011 12:15 pm
by jacek
libeco wrote: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
Re: Page Speed Test
Posted: Sun May 29, 2011 1:23 pm
by JelvinJS7
jacek wrote:I guess we will find out when my exams are over.
How far are you in building your forum?
Re: Page Speed Test
Posted: Sun May 29, 2011 1:26 pm
by jacek
JelvinJS7 wrote: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.