Jaisen Mathai a Software Engineer at Yahoo! has a wonderful article on speeding up Web requests on the Apache server with
the use of mods.
Speed up Apache - how I went from F to A in YSlow
High Level overview -
i) Use GZip for all text/* content (text/html, text/javascript, text/css)
ii) Consolidate all your JavaScript and Stylesheets into single files in order to reduce the number of HTTP requests.
iii) Change expiry values to allow caching in the Users Browser, based on either the a) last accessed time or b) last modified time.
Apaches mod_expire settings rule here.
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Wednesday, March 5, 2008
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