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Pras Sarkar blogs about web technology, music, social networks, digital identities and other random things.

How to load your site faster: HTTP Compression

In this series, we take a look at how to reduce load times across your site. The first part of the series tackles one of the most important techniques which usually proves to drastically reduce your load times. Usually it's not enough to use HTTP Compression alone (best results when coupled with smart caching), but I've seen anywhere between 40%-80% speed increases.

How to load your site faster: Introduction

Given my recent obsession with optimizing website load times recently, I felt the need to share my research findings. There are more ways than flavors at a gellato store, but fear not, I'll try to condense them into a consumable chunk in the next few series of posts. Here's a rough breakdown of what I intend to explore: HTTP Compression Application level caching (PHP) Client side requests optimization Non-vital scripts optimization Client side caching ...

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