all CSS should be loaded prior to ANY <scripts> ... doing so will allow the page to be rendered to the reader right away instead of waiting for <scipt> to load
<script> tags block parallel downloads
you may (or may not) improve the grade by using subdomain for static files
also, that bodiesonly site has META tags in <body>
The CSS is being loaded before any <script> because that is the way vBulletin is doing it.
And it is a very good example, just look at the grades, and the waterfall charts.
Have you guys tried Google Page Speed ? It is free because it is in beta. It actually saves and compress all your site's images on Google's servers and serve them.
It is very fast if installed correctly and you can install it on top of Cloudflare but I preferred cloudflare due to its easy cache purge with a push of a button. With Google Page Speed it was a little bit complicated and if i am working on my site, seeing the changes right way was a bit complicated with their purge system.
If your site is optimized you don't need google pagespeed or cloudflare. Plus, neither of those helps a whole hell of alot if you're not optimized. I'd love a link to your site for running through the test.
The main test system Ozzy and I use comes from Google's tech President Patrick Meenan. It utilizes real world browsers and internet connections to display exactly what is happening with your site on the various browsers and connections. It is objective and scientific.
If you wish, PM me a admin account, and FTP info, I have two sites ahead of you, but I can do it.
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Have you guys tried Google Page Speed ? It is free because it is in beta. It actually saves and compress all your site's images on Google's servers and serve them.
It is very fast if installed correctly and you can install it on top of Cloudflare but I preferred cloudflare due to its easy cache purge with a push of a button. With Google Page Speed it was a little bit complicated and if i am working on my site, seeing the changes right way was a bit complicated with their purge system.
Yeah i use it as a secondary test at times, but the one I usually use it better laid out and easier for me.
As for them serving the images, it is not really necessary, unless you are overloading the pages with huge images.
That is really not that bad, most os the bad grade with Cache static content is due to the ads, and the CDN, and the First Byte Time is most likely due to the host.
You are serving 158 requests and 1.4 megabytes. I'd suggest trying to find a way to slim it down some. Show me a fat page, and I?ll show you a slow page - all the pages I analyze that are greater than 1MB in size are slow, have poor first byte time, and a good many of them get in trouble with their hosts due to the massive bandwidth involved in 1000s of pageloads by visitors including spiders, times 1.4 MB.
03-28-2014, 09:16 PM
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