[LINK] Page Speed

[Karl Auer]

On Sat, 2011-04-16 at 08:54 +0000, stephen at melbpc.org.au wrote:
>  <http://pagespeed.googlelabs.com>
> "What is Page Speed Online? Page Speed Online analyzes the content of a 
> web page, then generates suggestions to make that page faster.

My home page got 78/100; four reasons were given.

- a non-cacheable redirect from /~kauer to /kauer was worth ten points.
The redirect is there for historical reasons, but fair enough. Going
direct to the target upped the score to 88/100.

- two images do not have expiration times. When that is the case, the
browser is free to cache as it wishes, is it not? Short expiration times
are bad, long expiration times are good - but no expiration times are
best. Or do I misunderstand? Does "no expiration" mean "don't cache"? If
so, seems silly.

- a .gif (yep, one, count it) could have been reduced by 620 bytes.
Probably by removing some metadata, more likely by recoding as .png.
Anyway, seems to have cost a lot of points.

- I didn't specify a character set. Gosh - that's a problem? Why?

Regards, K.

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Karl Auer (kauer at biplane.com.au)                   +61-2-64957160 (h)
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