Speed Test Analyzes

[Estranghero]

Dear Community,

I'm not really sure, if I'm at the right place here with my question;

Since my Site went very low on Speed, I checked for some Solutions. On my Site (Joomla! Ver: 3.8.2) under Helix 2. So I went to PageSpeed Insights: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights and have seeing some hints for increasing the page speed. It threw me to 75% of speed. In order to increase, I followed their instructions by defining some files for Caching. After entering a Cache Rule into the header of the *.css (according to: https://varvy.com/pagespeed/cache-control.html Cache-Control:

max-age=2592000, public

). But nothing changed. Here comes my Question; Is there a way to increase even more page speed?
What I already did was:
Setting the System of Conserative Caching,
Increasing Caching time to; 2592000
set Gzip Page Compression to "yes"
I also got already

SpeedPlus and SpeedBooster Speed Bundle

- from https://codingmall.com/products-mainmen ... virtuemart installed

Any useful hints to solve this issue are very appreciated!

Thank you for your time!

[Webdongle]

Put your hand in your pocket and get a better Hosting service perhaps ?

[lefteriskavadas]

Hi,

In order to achieve a high score in Google pagespeed insights you have to implement all the suggestions the tool provides. Most work needs to be done on your web server, not Joomla.

For example, it's always faster to enable GZIP on your web server, not in the application.

The same goes for static assets caching. You need to set up your web server to cache the static assets for some time.

[Estranghero]

Thank you Guys for your quick response! I never expected that to be the Server! Anyway, I'll contact the Support in order to help me out!Of course, I'll keep you updated!

[Estranghero]

Man, I think you'Re right; I really need to change my Server provider. Right now I'm searching for a new one! Do you have a reliable one in mind?

[Estranghero]

Ok, I checked A2 host. I think that's a good one! Thanx again or pointing me on that!

[Webdongle]

I use 1and1 shared Hosting not the fastest but good. But it's the type of Hosting package that you need to look at for speed as well ? A lot of the speed issues appear to be Template related ? Perhaps also something like https://extensions.joomla.org/extension ... ompressor/ there are others. Whatever you do (to increase the speed significantly) will almost inevitably cost money.

[Estranghero]

Hi Webdongle,
thank you very much for your hint! But honestly; 9 bucks/month for just 1 domain? I currently run 9 web sites. And for this -that's kinda very expensive! But at least now I know where and what for I've to keep my eyes open.

[ut4utc]

Hi, you can add in your .htaccess this code and your site be faster then wind

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AddDefaultCharset UTF-8

AddType text/javascript .js
AddType application/vnd.ms-fontobject .eot
AddType application/x-font-ttf .ttf
AddType application/x-font-opentype .otf
AddType application/x-font-woff .woff

# BEGIN Expire headers
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresDefault "access plus 5 seconds"
ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access plus 2500000 seconds"
ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 2500000 seconds"
ExpiresByType image/jpg "access plus 2500000 seconds"
ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 2500000 seconds"
ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 2500000 seconds"
ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash "access plus 2500000 seconds"
ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 700000 seconds"
ExpiresByType text/javascript "access plus 700000 seconds"
ExpiresByType application/javascript "access plus 700000 seconds"
ExpiresByType application/x-javascript "access plus 700000 seconds"
ExpiresByType text/html "access plus 600 seconds"
ExpiresByType application/xhtml+xml "access plus 600 seconds"
ExpiresByType font/truetype "access plus 2500000 seconds"
ExpiresByType font/opentype "access plus 2500000 seconds"
ExpiresByType application/x-font-woff "access plus 2500000 seconds"
ExpiresByType image/svg+xml "access plus 2500000 seconds"
ExpiresByType application/vnd.ms-fontobject "access plus 2500000 seconds"
</IfModule>
# END Expire headers

# BEGIN Cache-Control Headers
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
<filesMatch "\.(ico|jpe?g|png|gif|swf)$">
Header set Cache-Control "public"
</filesMatch>
<filesMatch "\.(css)$">
Header set Cache-Control "public"
</filesMatch> 

[Estranghero]

Hi ut4utc,

sorry for my late response to you! I just was so busy by migrating my sites into the new host. Hey, thanx a lot for your snippet !!! I hope my question didn't seem too stupid to you, but; Can I place your code at any place inside the .htaccess, or better at the first or the last?

best regards & thank you again very much!

[Estranghero]

Hey Guys, I found one more really pretty code snipped for your .htaccess to speed up your site, and I want to share it with you! I'd be keen to know, what you think about it !

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<IfModule LiteSpeed>
    CacheEnable public
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^GET|HEAD|PURGE$
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} [i]your host domain[/i]|[i]your domain[/i] [NC]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !admin|login|register [NC]
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !logged [NC]
    RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !nocache [NC]
    RewriteRule .* - [E=Cache-Control:max-age=1209600]
</IfModule>

best regards!