Comments on: Gzip in Joomla – Tips for a faster website

By: Fernando

Fernando — Fri, 16 Aug 2013 14:44:04 +0000

Hi,
I’ve compressed some css files and added your code to .htaccess, works great from chrome, css are not being loaded in Firefox and some android browsers, what could I making wrong ?

Best Regards,
Fernando

By: George

George — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 03:58:01 +0000

Remember if you do change any of the uncompressed versions you’ll have to re-generate the compressed version otherwise clients that support gzip won’t see the changes.

I am not very clear on this part

By: Lee

Lee — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 21:45:28 +0000

In reply to serwisy www.

Hi – firebug (http://getfirebug.com) will tell you if the content is being transmitted gzipped or not.

By: serwisy www

serwisy www — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 22:38:10 +0000

I implemented this for my CSS files only on my site. I merged all the CSS files in the header to template.css.

I think it’s working. How do I know if it is? If it is working, it’s reducing the size of my main template.css from 50 KB to about 10 KB.

There’s a PHP include above that is loading a number of other CSS files for the template. These come into play as the template changes color depending on the section being read.

Thanks for the tips!

By: GKopy

GKopy — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:15:07 +0000

I added the line just before your code in the .htaccess file. The line was already in the file. Perhaps this makes a difference.

I installed Firebug but can’t Firebug but can’t figure out how to read the CSS I’m downloading.

By: Lee

Lee — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:08:24 +0000

To check – you can install the excellent Firebug extension for firefox – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843.

This will show you all the requests that are being made, and the download sizes. It will also show you that the content encoding used (You’re looking for gzip).

It doesn’t look like this is happening on your site. I still get the uncompressed 44k version. Have you made the .htaccess changes?

Can you add a line that says
RewriteEngine On
before the chunk I mentioned earlier and see if that helps?

By: GKopy

GKopy — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:35:28 +0000

I implemented this for my CSS files only on my site. I merged all the CSS files in the header to template.css.

I think it’s working. How do I know if it is? If it is working, it’s reducing the size of my main template.css from 50 KB to about 10 KB.

Site is under my signature above.

There’s a PHP include above that is loading a number of other CSS files for the template. These come into play as the template changes color depending on the section being read.

Thanks for the tips!

By: Lee

Lee — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:34:00 +0000

You’re right, there are a bunch of scripts. Unfortunately these are all added by a host of different components / modules and I haven’t taken the time to go through them all and merge them. I have merged /removed some (There were about 12 scripts and about 8 stylesheets).

I’ve also added Expires headers on the various resources images/css (I’ve been meaning to do that for ages, but it just kept dropping to the bottom of the list!).

I’ve never been a big fan of on the fly compressing the HTML (I’ve trying to avoid as much processing as possible) although Joomla does have page cache functionality.

Thanks for the comments.

By: sam

sam — Wed, 27 May 2009 22:21:28 +0000

Nice article about gzipping on snugbaby. You’ve got 7 scripts and 6 stylesheet perhaps these could these could be combined n crushed also etags & headers – would improve the grade in yslow (which would benefit snugbaby – if the server is caching the asset files once combined)

The if joomla has a supercache type plugin also cache the output of the page. This way you can get the loading times of static html site with a fully content managed dynamic site