How to make your MU website(and other sites) load much faster

[jduval]

this guide will help you make your site load much faster using php and gzip

lets start

1. check if your website is gzipped or not by going to this site

2. type your Web Page URL and press check

3. if the result says that your website is compressed is Yes then you should stop here. your site is already optimized.

4. if the result says that your website is compressed is No then proceed with the next step

5. go to your htdocs web folder(in my case, i use htdocs/muweb)

6. open index.php with your favorite editor(notepad, wordpad, ultraeditor, dreamweaver etc)

7. at the top of the page, insert this line

ob_start("ob_gzhandler");

right after

session_start();

so it should look like this

<?
session_start();
ob_start("ob_gzhandler");

if you cant find session_start();
just insert it below <?

8. then go back to step 1


goodluck!!!

[MentaL]

[jduval]

have anyone tried it yet?
did you noticed any diference?

[reaperss1]

tryed and working

[.:Faker:.]

good guide

[MeTi]

Tried and it works, thanks.

[scudz69]

Nice Guide..It really works!

[Sarkons]

Great guide

[jduval]

here's another webserver optimization

get your self a copy of eaccelerator.dll
put it somewhere in your folder(preferably php\ext folder)

then open your php.ini

go to the bottom of the file then paste this if you dont have it yet

[eAccelerator]
extension="APACHE FOLDER HERE\php\ext\eaccelerator.dll"
eaccelerator.shm_size = "0"
eaccelerator.cache_dir = "TEMP FOLDER HERE\tmp"
eaccelerator.enable = "1"
eaccelerator.optimizer = "1"
eaccelerator.debug = "0"
eaccelerator.check_mtime = "1"
eaccelerator.filter = ""
eaccelerator.shm_max = "0"
eaccelerator.shm_ttl = "0"
eaccelerator.shm_prune_period = "0"
eaccelerator.shm_only = "0"
eaccelerator.compress = "1"
eaccelerator.compress_level = "9"
eaccelerator.keys = "shm_and_disk"
eaccelerator.sessions = "shm_and_disk"
eaccelerator.content = "shm_and_disk"

if you already have this in your php.ini then it is already optimized
just remove the ";"
restart php and you're done

[MeTi]

The 1st method increases page loading with about 0,3 seconds.

[jduval]

how did you measure it?

[razu3]

how did you measure it?

Google it :P , there are lots of website speed test

And for the optimizer, I recomend that if you have a page with lots of content , use the value "9" .

[themad]

If you are using a different web page with php scripts not loaded by the index you might to want to do this
goto path_to_php_ini/php.ini

find and set...
/////////////////////////////////////////////
zlib.output_handler =
->
zlib.output_handler = ob_gzhandler
/////////////////////////////////////////////
zlib.output_compression =
->
zlib.output_compression = on
/////////////////////////////////////////////
zlib.output_compression_level =
->
zlib.output_compression_level = -1
/////////////////////////////////////////////

Restart the apache web server. Done.
Using this method you will get every file compressed using the gzip handler automatic.

[jack001]

thanks men the first metod work very fine for me

[stopa2005]

Apache 2.0 and 2.2 use mod_deflate instead gzip compression :

Speed up Apache 2.0 web access or downloads with mod_deflate :
Speed up Apache 2.0 web access or downloads with mod_deflate | nixCraft

A cache system can increase website performance and reduce network traffic :

Apache 2.0 :
mod_cache - Apache HTTP Server
Apache 2.2
mod_cache - Apache HTTP Server

Optimize your code : HTML / PHP code contains unnecessary stuff: unneeded spaces, returns, meta tags, default values in HTML elements, etc
HTML Code Cleaner is intended to optimize HTML documents, resulting in shorter downloading / uploading time. Pages will appear in client's Internet browser in the same way, but they will be about 20%-40% smaller.

HTML Code Cleaner, HTML Code Compress - optimize and shrink HTML files

[sawiukas]

Hmmz nice one thx

[christoper]

nice good i like it

[iBimbo]

Hmmz nice one thx

There is a rule here on ragezone, saying that u may not post in threads where the last post is more than 3 weeks old. And the last post is from June.

[DarkFuture]

lol, fun guide, must test :D
thx ;)

[ReaperMuAdmin]

how would you apply that to a wordpress made to work with mu online db?
there is no php in the index.php file...