I've been having issues with site speed, I spoke to my hosting and they suggested a gtmetrix scan to check the areas of my site which may be causing issues.
After doing the scan several things were highlighted
Specify Image Dimensions
Minify CSS
Defer parsing of Javascript
Enable gzip compression
Server scaled images
Combine Images using CSS sprites
Minify Javascript
Specify a vary: Accept-encoding header
Inline small css
Can anyone enlighten me as to how to improve these areas or whether anything can be done?
I contacted my hosting about it and they pointed me back to oxwall.
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Abbey
Aug 13 '13
Thanks, gzip was already active when I did the scan as when I went to implement it it was already there.
I am currently looking into mod_deflate, I read it can increase server load so I'm unsure if I want to go ahead on that one.
Thanks for your advice
I am currently looking into mod_deflate, I read it can increase server load so I'm unsure if I want to go ahead on that one.
Thanks for your advice
Abbey
Aug 14 '13
I'm on a reseller package so I have access to mod_deflate.
I'm a novice at all of this and I'm learning slowly.
I'll research your suggestions.
I'm a novice at all of this and I'm learning slowly.
I'll research your suggestions.
Oxwall Türkiye
Feb 8 '17
I could not figure out how to do this
Could you have created a more clear source of this
The application should be done on which file.
Vladimir Bach
Feb 17 '17
For the Specify Image Dimensions you need to set the images on your site to be a certain size in either the html or css. It's best to set image sizes to be exactly the same size as the original dimensions of the photo, and make the image smaller if needed. Resizing in css or html can cause pages to take longer to load.
An example of this might be.
The above image is a result on one of my sites. As you can see I have a few images that haven't been fixed yet.
The image for http://www.roleplaysocial.net/...us/images/animes.jpg is missing dimensions. Which means I don't have a size set for the image.
Somewhere in my html, I need to edit where it calls for that image and add those dimensions.
Lucky for me I know where that is located in my theme. So I manage to replace the dimensions by editing the blank.html for my specific theme.
<img src="http://www.roleplaysocial.net/...us/images/animes.jpg height="160px" width="217px">
I hope this helps and wish you luck with your site.
