[Oxyrus]

Hello, I've been reading a bit about it because I'm a big fan of the loading speed, so those are methods than I learnt across my journey.

Use Static Files

Generating a dynamic page takes more time than rendering a static file, in example in the entries of a blog the data of it is static, however, the ads are not. If you're using WordPress you can use Really Static in order to achieve this, if you're running another CMS or application you must code/configure a static page system by your own.

CloudFlare

It gives you a basic DDoS protection and also it caches your assets, which makes your page loads way faster and decreases your bandwidth transfer.

Squash Images

The popular images editors are not that good when it comes to compress the images, so they usually add unnecessary extra KB's on those, but don't worry, if you're using a Mac you can use https://imageoptim.com/ and if you're running Windows you should give a try to http://nikkhokkho.sourceforge.net/static...eOptimizer

Use small glyph icon libs

Simple, don't add glyphs that you're not going to use, it's pointless to add an entire library of glyphs when you're just going to use 2 or 3, it just adds unnecessary KB's to the page. But, don't worry, you can use http://fontello.com/ and select the glyphs that you want to use in order to save some time load.


That's it for the moment, if you know about a trick feel free to post it

[User_mybb_import14239]

Nice little guide!

[Oxyrus]

Nice little guide!

You're welcome, probably I will add more ways in the next days.

[Captin_Lulzboat]

I personally hate cloudflare. But nice tips. If your really worried about DDOS, you can set up protection on the actual server to stop them instead of leaning on a thirdparty to handle it for you cloudflare websites have still gone down with a nice size dos.

[Oxyrus]

I personally hate cloudflare. But nice tips. If your really worried about DDOS, you can set up protection on the actual server to stop them instead of leaning on a thirdparty to handle it for you cloudflare websites have still gone down with a nice size dos.

That's true, but if you don't have the budget to pay a VPS or a decent DDoS protection this comes really handy.

[iLoveBeagles]

Or just enter your website at gtmetrix.com.

[Spider]

Run Nginx instead of apache.

[Venti]

I personally hate cloudflare. But nice tips. If your really worried about DDOS, you can set up protection on the actual server to stop them instead of leaning on a thirdparty to handle it for you cloudflare websites have still gone down with a nice size dos.

That's true, but if you don't have the budget to pay a VPS or a decent DDoS protection this comes really handy.

RamNode gives a DDoS-filtered IP for $5 extra on their VPSes via Staminius iirc.

[Kill]

@Oxyrus, as well use some PHP cachier

[Kotomi]

This is a good thread for beginners it's a lot of nice easy ways to increase load time.