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Is Smush it a reliabe service? [closed]
Smush it is an online compression tool for images provided by Yahoo. However, despite being maintained by a big company, it is often very slow and even offline.
In their FAQ there is a question about ...
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Enable gzip compression on Bluehost?
My website is loading large (~3mb) SVG file with jQuery. It takes quite a while therefore I decided to enable gzip compression.
I have a hosting account with Bluehost which supports custom .htaccess ...
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What is recommended minimum object size for gzip performance benefits?
I'm working on improving page speed display times, and one of the methods is to gzip content from the webserver.
Google recommends:
Note that gzipping is only beneficial for larger resources. Due ...
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.htaccess and gzip compression
i have question about GZIP compression,
actualy my wordpress website doesn't have .htaccess to be able to use that feature, so can i create .htaccess file only for gzip, it won't change anything on ...
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HTML compressor/minifier
Currently I am using a system where HTML gets cached server-side before it's sent to the browser. I'm looking to compress the HTML source of my website before it is cached.
Basically I'm looking for ...
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Is there an easy way to see amount of gzip compression in Chrome
I am busy checking how my webserver is doing gzip. I'm confident now that gzip is on as chrome shows the content-encoding: gzip header.
Is there a easy way to see how much a file was compressed in ...
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zlib compression issues
I'm having some issues running zlib compression on my site ..
Firstly if I enable zlib compression in .htaccess using: php_value output_handler ob_gzhandler then I receive thousands of lines of the ...
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Can Amazon Cloudfront files be served GZIP'd?
If i'm running a WordPress website with the W3TC plugin installed, and have my static CSS/JS minified files hosted on Amazon's CDN, is there a way to serve them GZIP'd?
I have the basic understanding ...
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IIS 7.5 Compression is not working when loading the page on a local computer
If I try to access our website inside our servers using the remote desktop connection. YSlow and PageSpeed is reporting that our website are compressed. But If I try to access our website in my local ...
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Offline lossless image shrinking
I'm looking for something like Smush.it or PunyPNG that works offline, preferably via command line interface that does gifs, jpegs and pngs.
Any suggestions?
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If Apache applies compression with mod_deflate, is there a reason to serve compressed files?
I have an Apache HTTP server which is configured with mod_deflate to compress content "on the fly".
Is there any benefit if I serve a compressed sitemap.xml.gz file, or should I rely on mod_deflate ...
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How can I measure the size of a webpage?
I'm building a website at the moment that has several complicated background images and repeats. The file sizes for each of the images are quite large (I've compressed them down as much as possible!), ...
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How to enable more file formats for GZIP/Deflate Compression
I enabled gzip/Deflate compression on our servers per Google's Page Speed directives, and it looks like it's now compression html/php files, but a couple file formats aren't being compressed that ...
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Weird unexpected image compression on a web server running Apache on Ubuntu?
I have a weird problem on my production web server running Apache on Ubuntu: it compresses my images thereby dramatically lowering their quality!
Actually I have two virtual hosts running, each ...
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Is there a Magento extension for combining/compressing javascript and css?
I thought Magento came with this feature out of the box but it doesn't appear to be working at all. I'm not sure if I haven't set it up properly, but right now I'm resorting to using cat and altering ...
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pre-gzipping files and serving to clients possible?
I understand that we can do some settings in .htaccess to allow gzipping on the fly.
However is there anyway we could do it "not-on-the-fly"?
I have a static file that I wish to serve gzipped, but I ...
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Optimal GZIP compression level for static resources?
Is there a compression level which will provide an optimal balance between file size reduction and client decompression time/cost?
I was wondering which GZIP compression level provided the best ...
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[BlogEngine.NET] Compression error
I have a blogengine.net website hosted on godaddy and I'm having issues when viewing it with Firefox and Chrome. On Firefox I get this error :
Content Encoding Error
The page you are trying to ...
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Is there any web script to compress files on server?
Hey I was just looking for a script to compress all my files on my server through FTP or any other thing. I want to keep the compressed files as backup...
And i know that many hosts support it, but ...
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GZipped Images - Is It Worth?
Most image formats are already compressed. But in fact, if I take an image and compress it [gzipping it], and then I compare the compressed one to the uncompressed one, there is a difference in size, ...
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Recommend me a CSS/JS compressor
There are scripts to compress CSS on-demand like these.
Have you stumbled upon something similar for javascripts? Also, any recommendations regarding CSS and JS compression are more than welcome. ...
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How do I compress my JavaScript and/or CSS?
I know that there are ways to dynamically load it into the page, but if I want to compress my code so it loads even faster, how do I do it?
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Proper use of Content-Encoding
I've heard it suggested that using setting a page's Content-Encoding to zip or gzip will drive down load times and reduce bandwidth. Is this worth implementing for the average site or only sites with ...
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Effective methods of reducing bandwidth (and thus page load times)?
What are the most effective methods when it comes to reducing the amount of bandwidth a website needs to render a page?
Aggressive caching? Minifying JS/CSS? Gzip? CMS? Sprites?
