[thelist] Website speed smart practices (was gzip and far future expires header )
Bob Meetin
bobm at dottedi.biz
Wed Feb 4 11:57:49 CST 2009
Well there have been a couple more interesting developments with the
website speed thread. My website is hosted in a common shared hosting
arrangement, which of course introduces another variable with what's
going on simultaneously with other websites. Occasionally I will see a
first load of the home page in under 4 seconds, but other times 8-9.
Not awful but not great. Then of course all other pages load relatively
fast after that.
I inquired to the hosting service how many other websites were hosted
but they were not up to sharing that info, which I expected. To switch
to a dedicated server the cost would climbs to about $175/month. Too
much at this time considering performance is acceptable.
The other really factor that I see is browser. On my Linux PC I have
loaded Firefox, Konqueror, Opera, Epiphany and Seamonkey for testing.
The other browsers almost all load faster than Firefox. Epiphany will
commonly load the home page in about 2 seconds as opposed to Firefox's
3-4. I've looked at the FF settings but don't see anything that should
account for this. Disabling the YSlow and other toolbars has negligible
to incidental effect.
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