If you use the Nginx-Pagespeed module - like I do on tech-blogger.net and routerzwang.de - you should keep it up to date. This can save you a lot of troubleshooting. If you already compile Nginx yourself, and the module ...
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Nginx: PHP alternative HHVM
If you want to further optimize the execution speed of PHP scripts, sooner or later you will stumble upon HHVM - a just-in-time compiler for PHP. HHVM can be easily installed via the Debian package management. Once that is done, it can be installed in the ...
Continue readingPagespeed: Load WordPress in under 1s (Nginx + HTTP/2)
If you want WordPress to be really fast, you won't get anywhere with common caching plugins after a certain point. Nginx with HTTP2 helps. Since version 1.9.5 the open source version of Nginx also supports the HTTP/2 protocol directly - ...
Continue readingNginx: HTTP/2 available via alpha patch
HTTP/2 is supported by more and more browsers, only the web servers still have problems. A first patch has now been released for Nginx, which integrates the new protocol. For this, of course, it is first necessary that ...
Continue readingPagespeed: combine_css with WordPress
If you use WordPress with mod_pagespeed or ngx_pagespeed and use the combine_css filter, you will notice that nothing happens. What to do? The reason for the problems: The pagespeed module does not consider CSS embeddings that have different IDs. ...
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If you use Debian and rely on Nginx, sooner or later you won't be able to get by with the integrated modules. The solution: compile Nginx yourself. Last updated on Jun 09, 2019 What sounds complicated at first is in practice ...
Continue readingPagespeed: Microcaching with Nginx
Nginx is a very fast web server in itself - but it offers some interesting features for caching, which minimizes accesses to PHP and delivers pages much faster. A short tutorial. For ...
Continue readingPagespeed: Nginx + Memcached + PHP5-FPM
Nginx with PHP5-FPM is already quite fast, if finished pages are stored via Memcached the loading time can be reduced even further. The implementation is simple. This post is inspired by a tutorial on 6tech.org and on ...
Continue readingPagespeed: Use Disqus with Lazyload
Those who use the Disqus commenting system on their blog will have noticed sooner or later that Disqus sometimes causes loading delays. The solution: Lazyload. The basic idea: when scrolling in a post, a defined point is ...
Continue readingNginx with SSL and SPDY
As some may have noticed, my blog kadder.de recently runs over an encrypted connection (recognizable by the HTTPS icon in the browser bar). The main reason for this change, which unfortunately costs some time at first byte time, ...
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