ttj90

Nice one thank you.

http://thetruejoe90.com

I hope it works in all browsers though…

But if I’m just doing new posts and additional text then I shouldn’t have a worry then? If I’m happy with the theme as it stands then I could go ahead and do this then.

I have got WPSC in place but some of the files are not being compresed according to Page Speed.

I’ve asked my Host and they tell me this:

“Unfortunately we do not provide mod_gzip or mod_deflate on our shared servers.
File compression of static content is possible on Apache web hosts that do not have mod_gzip or mod_deflate enabled
Use 7-Zip (quite possibly the best compression software around, and it’s free) to compress the CSS and JavaScript files as gzip, then upload them to your server. Add the following lines to your .htaccess file to send user agents the gzipped versions if they support the encoding”

<files *.js.gz>
 AddType "text/javascript" .gz
 AddEncoding gzip .gz
</files>
<files *.css.gz>
 AddType "text/css" .gz
 AddEncoding gzip .gz
</files>
RewriteEngine on
#Check to see if browser can accept gzip files.
ReWriteCond %{HTTP:accept-encoding} gzip
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !Safari
#make sure there's no trailing .gz on the url
ReWriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^.+\.gz$
#check to see if a .gz version of the file exists.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.gz -f
#All conditions met so add .gz to URL filename (invisibly)
RewriteRule ^(.+) $1.gz [QSA,L]

So I am to assume that I download the .js and .css files to my computer, use 7-Zip to compress them, then re-upload them into File Manager and input this code into .htaccess?

I’m sorry if I didn’t make it clear, but I installed all these bits after the warning. I did have a cache plugin installed but I didn’t configure it very well I don’t think.

Fortunately though, with all of the changes I’ve made over the last two to three days I’ve reduced my CPU usage on the server which was the main goal, optimised my site so that I reduce requests and remove unnecessary plugins.

I’ve just checked and managed to hit:
91/100 on Google Page Speed.
Webpagetest states 90/100 but with work still left to do with combining the theme .js and .css files which is what I’m struggling with mainly and also I have no CDN.
With Pingdom I get mixed results but even the worst is tolerable.

I’m a bit stuck now..