Hi,
recently I’d been checking the page load time for my site TechiZm.
Here’s the image attached ( http://ss-img.techizm.com/2014/07/Capture.png ) and it says that my site loads in 623 ms. My question is – How can I make it more fast?
New scores now only 492 ms…
Page size is still 1.2 mb
I wanna get it down to 300 ms… any help would be great.
Cheers Shashank
See the page speed sticky topic for suggestions on speed 🙂
hi,
do a google search : http://screencast.com/t/h9ygu1dP7x4p
try some of the plugins, maybe you will get it right
Thanks for you message.
Radu A.
Tried all pplugins one can find but none of them work correctly.
Autoptimize works but it generates minified files for every page every time a new user visits… Cache becomes more than 100 mb in half an hour…
Any solution?
SS
What I do is use the links found in my posts under the page speed topic, and just manually minify the main style.css file, and main .js file.
E.g., for CSS:
cssminifier.com
for JS:
http://gpbmike.github.io/refresh-sf/
basically paste the main style.css file into the minifier, then copy and paste the minified version back into the styles file and then upload/over-write main one on the server. Takes 2 minutes. Done.
If you read the other sticky on speed by “Steven”, he has been using a minify plugin that seems to work.
In my case mod_pagespeed minifies my HTML, so don’t have to deal with that. I then use cssminifier to optimize the main css file.
Since I have to do couple of hacks to my functions.php file, and switch on the author name on posts, home page modules, and swap out the field name for view counter to our existing field with EVERY update, it’s not much more work to do the CSS and JS minify on main couple of files each time as well. No plugins needed 🙂
And, another option – if you use GTMetrix to test your site … they can actually spit out “optimized” versions of stuff for you, which is cool.
Just as an anecdote on minification:
minifying the main style.css file will take the size from 286kb to 204kb, as savings of about 80kb, which is actually quite a bit.
Thanks for your suggestions Chris, I’ll probably minify the js and css files manually and then replace them but what about combining? Is there something out there for this purpose too?
And I would like to hear more about your mod_pagespeed html minification, may I try it out if you share your codes. 🙂
Cheers
@Shashank
Hi, if you look at the page speed sticky topic, my settings for mod_pagespeed I’m using with theme are found there, along with my htaccess TTL/expiration settings and robots.txt file, etc. 🙂
Basically mod_pagespeed can strip out all comments, and remove spaces and double line breaks. It doesn’t make a 300 foot long single line of code, but big whoop on that; it’s doing it on the fly and caching stuff, so not going to complain 🙂
I would not combine the CSS or JS files, since what if a specific function module is looking for site.js and you combined that with something else, it will break — I think the config that Radu and Co have done, along with their speed booster take care of a lot of that. You would kind of have to experiment on that one if you want to try to combine things.
Thanks I’ll check into it and will update here if that does the trick for me.
So far I’ve tried many minifiers but most of them break my site, but your idea seems useful, gonna try it out. 🙂
Shashank
