I was trying to figure out a way to optimize my blog, when I remembered I had tried a plugin a while back that worked well. I couldn’t remember it’s name so I had to spend some time googling, but eventually found it again: PHP Speedy.

I decided to try it out. I ran my front page through Firebug to check out how many requests the page made and how much data was transferred. I then activated and configured the plugin and ran it again. The ressults are in the table below.

As you can see, it worked really well on my blog!

For those interested, this is my PHP Speedy configuration settings:

JS Libraries: jquery (1.2.3)
minify javascript: yes
minify page: yes
minify css: yes
gzip javascript: yes
gzip page: yes
gzip css: yes
footer text: no
footer image: no

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