Improving performance based on page speed tests

I ran some tests on my site, and now trying to resolve some of the bad scores. If anyone could help me with any of the following I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks in advance.

When I do a page speed performance check, I get a bad grade in regards to a few areas. Trying to figure out how to make the suggested changes:

 

The following cacheable resources have a short freshness lifetime. Specify an expiration at least one week in the future for the following resources:

 

Compressing the following resources with gzip could reduce their transfer size by 272.4KiB (82% reduction).

 

Minifying the following JavaScript resources could reduce their size by 36.9KiB (26% reduction).

 

Minifying the following HTML resources could reduce their size by 7.6KiB (27% reduction).

 

The following publicly cacheable, compressible resources should have a "Vary: Accept-Encoding" header:

 

Minifying the following CSS resources could reduce their size by 34.8KiB (15% reduction).

 

203.0KiB of JavaScript is parsed during initial page load. Defer parsing JavaScript to reduce blocking of page rendering.

 

The following images are resized in HTML or CSS. Serving scaled images could save 108.8KiB (24% reduction).

caredesign.net
Quote · 20 Dec 2013

 

 

Minifying the following HTML resources could reduce their size by 7.6KiB (27% reduction).

 

 How do you minify a domain name? Or are they telling you to minify your entire website?

Geeks, making the world a better place
Quote · 21 Dec 2013

 

How do you minify a domain name? Or are they telling you to minify your entire website?

 They mean the html, removing the empty white spaces and stuff...

so much to do....
Quote · 21 Dec 2013

Do as you are told here: administration/host_tools.php

Enable deflate_module and expires_module on your server and you are fine.

Quote · 21 Dec 2013

this is what my host tools says and it seems I already have them enabled:

  • Web-server:
    • User-side caching for static conten = click here to check it in Google Page Speed
      If it is not enabled then please consider implement this optimization, since it improve perceived site speed and save the bandwidth, refer to this tutorial on how to do this.
      To apply this optimization you need to have expires_module Apache module - OK
    • Server-side content compression = can be checked manually or in "Page Speed" tool build-in into browser.
      If it is not enabled then please consider implement this optimization, since it improve perceived site speed and save the bandwidth, refer to this tutorial on how to do this.
      To apply this optimization you need to have deflate_module Apache module - OK
caredesign.net
Quote · 21 Dec 2013

attached are images of my host tools

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caredesign.net
Quote · 21 Dec 2013

You need to follow instructions: http://www.boonex.com/trac/dolphin/wiki/HostingServerSetupRecommendations

- modify .htaccess for both deflate and expires

Quote · 21 Dec 2013

To compress your CSS and minify your JS use this site.  Online UI Compressor.

Only do the JS minifier on your live site.  Leave your dev site un minified.  Its HARD to debug minified JS!

You can compress every CSS file in every module and every template with this site and it REALLY increases the speed!

When you minify the JS, it makes quite a bit of difference too!

 

http://www.mytikibar.com
Quote · 21 Dec 2013

If you use deflate minifying is time wasted.

Quote · 21 Dec 2013

thank you both for your responses. Since I am unfamiliar with this area, I went with the easiest solution which was adding the specific code to the .htaccess. My test results were greatly improved.

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google test.png · 16K · 242 views
caredesign.net
Quote · 21 Dec 2013
 
 
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