[BUSINESS] Page speed tips

[tacnet]

Fast cars win races and fast pages get results all there is to it

Absolutely right.

And it only takes a few tweaks and its done. Not like you have to keep working on it every day and yet so many people just dont bother and then wonder why they are not making many sales

[LatonyaJed]

what are the most accurate fre tools to test a webpage load times?

[tacnet]

what are the most accurate fre tools to test a webpage load times?

https://pagespeed.web.dev/

https://gtmetrix.com/

[LatonyaJed]

what are the most accurate fre tools to test a webpage load times?

https://pagespeed.web.dev/

https://gtmetrix.com/

I appreciate that

[workman]

Good tips here

[tacnet]

Good tips here

Thanks workman. Hope it helps

[tacnet]

Just posted this in another thread but its more on this topic

There's one more useful thing thats not been mentioned yet in this or other posts, and thats using static html for your index or heavy traffic pages. This can MASSIVELY reduce your server load.

There's lots of ways of doing this but the idea is simple.

Most PHP scripts will typically query your database, wait for the response and then display the live results (thats the general steps of ANY script). But the question is, do they need to be "LIVE" results ????

Your index.php page is probably the one thats getting the most traffic and therefore the page that is chewing up most of your server load.

What if you had a cron script that would read the output of www.mydomain.com/index.php say every 15 minutes and write the output to www.mydomain.com/index.htm ????

Now, whenever someone goes to www.mydomain.com they are viewing your index.htm page instead index.php. So NO queries to the database, NO waiting for a response etc. Just a simple static html page, updated every 15 minutes that the server can display immediately

We now do this for our main index page and a few other high traffic pages and it cut our server load down by HALF !!

Hope that helps

[Russ]

Just posted this in another thread but its more on this topic

There's one more useful thing thats not been mentioned yet in this or other posts, and thats using static html for your index or heavy traffic pages. This can MASSIVELY reduce your server load.

There's lots of ways of doing this but the idea is simple.

Most PHP scripts will typically query your database, wait for the response and then display the live results (thats the general steps of ANY script). But the question is, do they need to be "LIVE" results ????

Your index.php page is probably the one thats getting the most traffic and therefore the page that is chewing up most of your server load.

What if you had a cron script that would read the output of www.mydomain.com/index.php say every 15 minutes and write the output to www.mydomain.com/index.htm ????

Now, whenever someone goes to www.mydomain.com they are viewing your index.htm page instead index.php. So NO queries to the database, NO waiting for a response etc. Just a simple static html page, updated every 15 minutes that the server can display immediately

We now do this for our main index page and a few other high traffic pages and it cut our server load down by HALF !!

Hope that helps

Is that why sponsorchat added one, did you have anything to do with that.

[tacnet]

Just posted this in another thread but its more on this topic

There's one more useful thing thats not been mentioned yet in this or other posts, and thats using static html for your index or heavy traffic pages. This can MASSIVELY reduce your server load.

There's lots of ways of doing this but the idea is simple.

Most PHP scripts will typically query your database, wait for the response and then display the live results (thats the general steps of ANY script). But the question is, do they need to be "LIVE" results ????

Your index.php page is probably the one thats getting the most traffic and therefore the page that is chewing up most of your server load.

What if you had a cron script that would read the output of www.mydomain.com/index.php say every 15 minutes and write the output to www.mydomain.com/index.htm ????

Now, whenever someone goes to www.mydomain.com they are viewing your index.htm page instead index.php. So NO queries to the database, NO waiting for a response etc. Just a simple static html page, updated every 15 minutes that the server can display immediately

We now do this for our main index page and a few other high traffic pages and it cut our server load down by HALF !!

Hope that helps

Is that why sponsorchat added one, did you have anything to do with that.

No I think the Butcher has just done a normal index page on this site.

You only really need to do this if you've got heavy traffic and need to reduce your server load