Wow, that is really fast. This article is really detailed and has given me lots of things to look at tonight.
I'm assuming based on the WPMinify mention that this is a WP site - would be curious to know if the speed improvements were all in html/css/js and caching, or if there was anything done to WP as well.
Thanks! We use WP Engine to host the site, which they have a pretty nice system set in place to host WordPress. They have a page on their system architecture here: http://wpengine.com/our-infrastructure/
Basically, it just comes down to caching in a brilliant way. But other than that, we did not do anything special to WordPress itself.
Hi tjasko - that's for the follow-up info. We're on WPEngine as well and now I'm excited to see how much of an improvement we can make using the techniques you covered. Thankyou
true you can also set these on the NetDNA CDN Platform through their vhost modification service. also any origin server should be able to set these as well and any CDN honor those settings
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[ 7.0 ms ] story [ 71.0 ms ] threadJust noticed your site loads fine in IE10 then kicks me out saying I'm using IE6...
Might want to fix that.
I'm assuming based on the WPMinify mention that this is a WP site - would be curious to know if the speed improvements were all in html/css/js and caching, or if there was anything done to WP as well.
Basically, it just comes down to caching in a brilliant way. But other than that, we did not do anything special to WordPress itself.
Thanks for sharing and great job on the website, loads super fast for me.
1. Expires Header (for static) 2. Cache-Control Headers (for less static) 3. KeepAliveTimeout (might be a double edged sword)
and you can set the first 2 on Amazon S3