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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