High Performance - Joomla!Days NL 2009 #jd09nl

High Perfomance a guide for optimizing the performance of Joomla! websites by Fotis Evangelou (JoomlaWorks) www.joomlaworks.gr Joomla!Days Netherlands - 12 & 13 June 2009

What's covered in this session • Basic principles of web content delivery • Prepare Joomla! for prime time • Optimize our template and our content • Configure hosting www.joomlaworks.gr

Basic principles of web content delivery The closer the server is to the user, the better - DNS lookups (avoid redirects) - The concept of the CDN (Content Delivery Network) Browsers use 2 HTTP connections per domain to download content - Increase website download time using subdomains/CDN - Combine CSS files - Combine Javascript files - Combine layout images into sprites All modern browsers accept compressed content sent from the server - Compress HTML, CSS and Javascript code www.joomlaworks.gr

Prepare Joomla! for prime time Prepare the tools for your work - Install Firefox with Firebug, YSlow and Web Developer Toolbar Global Configuration - Enable Joomla!'s built-in cache mechanism - Enable GZIP Extensions - Choose extensions that properly separate content from layout/behaviour – disable their CSS/JS includes and call CSS/JS code into your template where possible. - Enable caching for modules www.joomlaworks.gr

Optimize our template and our content - Combine and compress - using Gzip - CSS/JS files - Do not pack your JS code, feel free to minify - Use one JS library/framework - Initiate JS code into as little onload events as possible - Put all your layout (non-content) images as background images in your template's CSS file - Combine all your layout non-repeating images into one big image (sprite), use CSS positioning to display www.joomlaworks.gr

Optimize our template and our content - Resize/resample content images manually or use a plugin to do that - Understand when to use GIF, PNG or JPEG - Enable debug in Joomla!, check the number of queries with cache on and off. Identify slow queries in PHP code. - Dynamically replace URLs to point to subdomains/CDN (make site.com/images/ show up as images.site.com) www.joomlaworks.gr

Configure hosting - Optimize MySQL depending on your needs and taget audience - Use a CDN for image, CSS, JS and other static content delivery - Split website load into 2 servers (if possible): one acts as web server, the other as database server www.joomlaworks.gr

Case study: gazzetta.gr www.joomlaworks.gr

Thank you www.joomlaworks.gr

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