Comments on: Enhancing PHP speeds (Drupal and Wordpress too)

By: Yemek Tarifleri

Yemek Tarifleri — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:30:34 +0000

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By: nullvariable

nullvariable — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:55:54 +0000

yes, this technique will compress text files. To my knowledge it doesn’t do anything with graphics

By: somchai

somchai — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:03:41 +0000

Thank you very much on your comment at DP and point me to this technique, I will try on my site after the host upgrade the php version in next week.
I never think of “Hallowen color” during design my web theme.

By the way, all of my contents are html, is it work too?

By: nullvariable

nullvariable — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:08:58 +0000

well on my site it seems to make a pretty big difference. I did not actually do any sort of imperical testing. I just tested the difference before and after. Dialup users would see a huge speed boost however since the size of files makes a much bigger difference. According to the benchmarking site that I use, just enabling gzip compression saved a dialup user 6-7 seconds. It reduced the total size of the home page from around 70k to less than 50k (this has changed since that test because I’ve made several changes to the design since.)

By: Jared Sutton

Jared Sutton — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:58:08 +0000

This could speed up or slow down your site depending on how your hosting environment is. For example, a box that has high CPU utilization may not benefit as much from this hack, as it takes more horsepower to compress the data before sending it to the client’s browser. However, if the network your on is busting at the seams, then this might give you a slight edge.

Have you done any actual speed tests on your site before and after applying this?