3rd Jan 2015

Happy New Year!

3rd Jan 2015

Ashwin Date

Joomla caching & performance

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Tools to Test

● Google Pagespeed

● GTMetrix

● WebpageTest

● Yslow

● Firebug

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Why fast ?

● Everyone loves fast sites

● You can boast about it

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Simple and Obvious

● Compress images

● Resize Images

● Add width & height tags for images

● Use minified versions of javascript and CSS files

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Somethings Joomla

● Turn on GZIP compression in the admin

● Install JCH optimize

● Turn on caching in Global Config

● Conservative Honours individual module's caching settings–● Progressive Modules are always cached–● If your site allows users to login DO NOT enable the System Cache plugin–

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A little server side

● Use mod_gzip to compress assets like JS & CSS

● Add far future expiry headers (preferably 1 year out for images, JS and CSS)

● Make sure you don't accidentally cache your HTML markup!!

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Really server side

● Use opcode cache like memcached or APC

● Alternately use Varnish

● Make sure you don't accidentally cache your HTML markup!!