Procache Module and other page speed methods

[NooseLadder]

Hi,

I'm using Google's PageSpeed Insights and Pingdom Website Speed Test to check some of my sites.

I am NOT currently using the ProCache Module. If I do, will I also need to carry out some of the recommendations from the above-mentioned tools E.g. Leverage Browser Caching by specifying an Expires time in htaccess for chacheable resources?

Anyone using the Procache Module, please can you try running a speed test and see what results you get and post back here, thanks.

 

[teppo]

I'm not entirely sure what you're asking here, but still: ProCache won't affect any other aspect of these page speed tests other than server response time.

Expires headers, page structure related stuff, minified scripts & styles & markup etc. still apply. Your content just gets served from files on disk without PHP and/or MySQL slowing things down.

So, did this answer your question?

[Philipp]

Tested a website with ProCache activated. I also did some other stuff like gzip compression and some tweak for the htaccess I've found around the net. Don't forget about a clean and lightweight html markup and compressed CSS/JS/Images. 

Got a 90/100 + 95/100 Google Page Speed.

http://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=weg.conclurer.com

I didn't add a JS loader or integrated CSS for the "above the fold" category. Here's a nice guide to do that

http://www.feedthebot.com/pagespeed/prioritize-visible-content.html

EDIT: It's funny, that google does critize its own Webfont CSS Loading... 

[NooseLadder]

I'm not entirely sure what you're asking here, but still: ProCache won't affect any other aspect of these page speed tests other than server response time.

Expires headers, page structure related stuff, minified scripts & styles & markup etc. still apply. Your content just gets served from files on disk without PHP and/or MySQL slowing things down.

So, did this answer your question?

@teppo Yes it did thanks for your reply.

@Philipp  Interesting results thanks. Did you do a comparison with ProCache turned off?

Try running a speed test on tools.pingdom.com  

[Philipp]

Just did some fixes to the site. They uploaded PNG images which still were around 500kb in size for the news thumbnail. Beside this fix, I've tried to minify the CSS and delay the load - but unfortunaley, we didn't the cleanest work in the JS files back in March. The slider won't render with defered loading and there were some little issues. Now the JS is minifed but not combined into a single file.  

ProCache off:

http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/eIFQpm/http://weg.conclurer.com

Turned on and created a cached version before the test:

http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/c09R0Y/weg.conclurer.com

The pingdom test is kinda strange. I've got a better score with slower times from the benchmark. 

My own "feeling" test resultet in a much faster page respond speed. I think, the real benefit of ProCache is also the ability to save the server ressourcen. If you alot of traffic suddenly, your site might still be running fast. 

EDIT: Minified the HTML Output and run the test again with ProCache turned on. Yet another result:

http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/dmmWLi/http://weg.conclurer.com/

EDIT2: The min.css wasn't minified after all. Saved another 9.6KB.

http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/s2kZ5/http://weg.conclurer.com/

Pingdom really depends on the time of the test and their own server response time.

Google now downgraded me to 89 and 94. I know that the prefixfree blocks CSS rendering (but it helps me alot to develope sites and its quite fast). Some images uploaded by the users need optimization. The goal is to get below 500kb and one second

[DaveP]

willyc posted some good htaccess speedup stuff here http://processwire.com/talk/topic/3812-htaccess/?p=37295

[NooseLadder]

@Philipp

Thank you for posting those results.

This is quite encouraging (from the pingdom results) Your Website is faster then 95% of websites tested.

Pingdom really depends on the time of the test and their own server response time.

If you mean this:

Here are the Colour codes:

@DaveP

Yes the WillyC .htaccess stuff does help.