September 27th, 2009
- The Firefox Web Developer add-on is a must have for webmasters to quickly check a variety of things about a website.
- Examine Headers with this handy little add-on.
- To easily check your website’s speed, install the Google Page Speed add-on for Firefox. It performs several tests on a website server configuration and front-end code. The tests are based on a set of best practices, that Google recommend, known to enhance web page performance. You get a set of scores for each page as well as helpful suggestions on how to improve the website’s performance.
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September 26th, 2009
The following is a list of things you can do to help improve your website loading speed.
- Use GZip compression for CSS, Javascript etc. Check your site here.
- Minimize your javascript. You can use JMin for this.
- Remove ETags
- Set Header Expires to future
- Put scripts at the bottom of the page
GZip compression can be controlled in Apache servers using .htaccess -
<FilesMatch “\.(html|htm)$”>
SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
</FilesMatch>
You can also remove Etags and set Header Expires in. htaccess using the following -
<ifmodule mod_expires.c>
<filesmatch “\.(ico|jpg|jpeg|png|gif|js|css|swf)$”>
ExpiresActive on
ExpiresDefault “access plus 6 hours”
FileETag none
</filesmatch>
</ifmodule>
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August 15th, 2009
Introducing the Real Upload Progress Bar for PhpBB v3.0.x
This mod will give your forum uploaders a progress bar that really works unlike the prepackaged progress bar included in the subsilver theme which ‘pretends’ to show you upload progress. You also get additional upload details such as percent uploaded, upload speed, average upload speed and estimated time till the upload has finished. The Upload Progress Bar makes use of the lightweight JQuery javascript library to display the information to the browser and for maximum efficiency it only gets called when a user makes a post in your forum.
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