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Speed Index < 1000 with Nginx, ngx_pagespeed, PHP, W3TC

Nothing is more annoying than slow-loading websites - but if you host WordPress yourself (in my case on a cloud server at JiffyBox), you have plenty of room for optimization. Here I present a few. The final result first: for the blog homepage at www.tech-blogger.net, Webpagetest.org determined a speed index of 601 on November 9, 2013 (smaller is better, more information on the [...]

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Nginx: Activate GZIP

To speed up data transfer and minimize data transfer, GZIP should be activated for JavaScript, CSS and HTML files. By default, Gzip is not activated for all relevant mimetypes, so this should be done in nginx.conf (add in the http area): gzip on; gzip_disable "MSIE [1-6]\.(?!.*SV1)"; gzip_proxied any; gzip_buffers 16 8k; gzip_types text/plain text/html text/css text/xml