[sadegazoz]

can everyone add the methods they use for a faster pligg site with references, so newbies can learn and find things easily and dont ask same things again and again like me maybe this HW TO topics can be good references.

question>> How to speed up pligg?
lets list all of the clear answers and play it like tennis please add new proved methods and list all of them together.


1- enabling gzip mod for js files
>>>> http://forums.pligg.com/suggestions/...oad-times.html >>>> htaccess method
>>>> http://forums.pligg.com/general-help...-js-files.html >>> admin

2- adding link_status column in the pligg_links table from your phpmyadmin panel >>>>> http://forums.pligg.com/pligg-mods/1...html#post45809

3- try dedicated servers instead of shared ones if you have more than 100 or more visitor traffic in a day. >>>>
http://forums.pligg.com/general-help...mely-slow.html

4- optimize your logo and other images and icons on your page. >>>> /templates/YOUR TEMPLATES NAME/images




ok please add yours with a link or with a clear explanation...
thanks for participating

[fingerprn]

Experiment with a new webhost. I was using a virtual private server (VPS) that should have loaded my pages very quickly; however, each page was loading at 6-8 seconds. I got fed up and switched to a shared hosting package with a new webhost. Now my pages load 3-4 seconds. Please understand, the problem was not with having a VPS (I experimented with another VPS and got the same 3-4 seconds), the problem was with my webhost and the way it handled connections. Once my traffic count goes up I'll switch back to a different VPS.

[hotsitez]

Well I have our site on a dedicated server (Intel Pentium "D" 3.2Ghz, 4 meg ram, yada-yadda), load times are fine, BUT many talk of load times being the problem, and I think the real issue is Page Size - My sites page size is 108k, but loads very fast. and NO that is just the code part of the pligg page, before graphics - so lets not speak of graphics. Obviously we have some issues, but I was wondering how many of you may also be having the same problem??

Any suggestions to cleaning out the page size?

[mendim]

the best way i tested to speed up my pligg site is this,add this code to .htaccess

# BEGIN Compress text files
<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
<FilesMatch "\.(css|js|x?html?|php)$">
SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
</FilesMatch>
</IfModule>
# END Compress text files
# BEGIN Expire headers
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 seconds"
ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access plus 2592000 seconds"
ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 2592000 seconds"
ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 2592000 seconds"
ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 2592000 seconds"
ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash "access plus 2592000 seconds"
ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 604800 seconds"
ExpiresByType text/javascript "access plus 216000 seconds"
ExpiresByType application/x-javascript "access plus 216000 seconds"
ExpiresByType text/html "access plus 600 seconds"
ExpiresByType application/xhtml+xml "access plus 600 seconds"
</IfModule>
# END Expire headers
# BEGIN Cache-Control Headers
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
<FilesMatch "\\.(ico|jpe?g|png|gif|swf)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=2592000, public"
</FilesMatch>
<FilesMatch "\\.(css)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=604800, public"
</FilesMatch>
<FilesMatch "\\.(js)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=216000, private"
</FilesMatch>
<FilesMatch "\\.(x?html?|php)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=600, private, must-revalidate"
</FilesMatch>
</IfModule>
# END Cache-Control Headers
# BEGIN Turn ETags Off
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
Header unset ETag
</IfModule>
FileETag None
# END Turn ETags Off
# BEGIN Remove Last-Modified Header
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
Header unset Last-Modified
</IfModule>
# END Remove Last-Modified Header

[ckabusk]

Thanks for share! I tried it and it works.

[kleszcz]

Originally Posted by mendim

the best way i tested to speed up my pligg site is this,add this code to .htaccess

It works. That's the great speed up for me. Thanks for sharing.

[mendim]

Originally Posted by kleszcz

It works. That's the great speed up for me. Thanks for sharing.

Yes,also i applied this at my site,and works fine

[chuckroast]

Another thing to try is adding the following to the top of your .htaccess

<ifmodule mod_php4.c>
php_value zlib.output_compression 16386
</ifmodule>

I tried it along with the other speed up code posted and it is working quite well on my test server.

Here is the results after adding this to the Pligg demo.
34.66 KB Loads in 0.38 seconds

[anudeepkanwar]

Originally Posted by mendim

the best way i tested to speed up my pligg site is this,add this code to .htaccess

Hi where to add this code in .htaccess
Regards

[chuckroast]

Originally Posted by anudeepkanwar

Hi where to add this code in .htaccess
Regards

I added it to the top.