[SPARKS MAN]

thanks very much
its really use full information
i don't know it
I'll try to implement it as i can ( its depend on my ability)

[Quantnet]

Thanks a lot for this very useful article.
Just signed up for S3 account and start doing some of the things you recommend.

1) I have some parked domains which i can use to host files. Say, I have the .info parked on top of my .com.
It seems like I have to create an account for that .info and create subdomains on .info in order to add CNAME?

2) How do I add EXPIRES in the images from Bucket Explorer. When I tried to do that, it always result in https, instead of http.

3) Do you recommend moving all Vbulletin styles images folder off to S3?

[Princeton]

once you have your S3 account setup just create new buckets with the same name as your subdomains

for example...
if you create the following sub-domain:
- css.domain.info
- images.domain.info
- etc

your buckets will be called:
- css.domain.info
- img.domain.info
- etc


if creating the following CNAMEs...
- css.domain.info
- img.domain.info
- etc

you should point them to...
- css = css.domain.info.s3.amazonaws.com
- img= img.domain.info.s3.amazonaws.com
- etc

3) Do you recommend moving all Vbulletin styles images folder off to S3?

yes

[Quantnet]

Thanks Princeton,

Got the S3 working and the subdomain properly redirects. I'm moving some images now.
Now, I believe the Expires is set in the apache server, not for individually images, correct?

[Princeton]

use the Bucket Explorer Batch Operation / Metadata to set Expires

Key = Expires
value = sometime in the future ex. Thu, 01 Dec 2010 11:16:04 GMT

[Scalemotorcars]

Thanks Princeton this is exactly what Ive been looking for.

Question, Can I move all the VB js scripts into a single file? Im assuming VB wrote it this way for a reason.

Also can I move all my extra Css into the default VB css? I have 5 customs styles on the site and I wasn't sure if that would overlap them.

Thanks again... Daniel

[Princeton]

Question, Can I move all the VB js scripts into a single file? Im assuming VB wrote it this way for a reason.

No, it's impossible with the current setup
if you merge them into 1 file you will get errors

(you need to worry about execution order, etc)

Also can I move all my extra Css into the default VB css? I have 5 customs styles on the site and I wasn't sure if that would overlap them.

this is possible - I'm assuming you want to create 5 separate css stylesheets.

[Scalemotorcars]

Originally Posted by Princeton

No, it's impossible with the current setup
if you merge them into 1 file you will get errors

(you need to worry about execution order, etc)

this is possible - I'm assuming you want to create 5 separate css stylesheets.

As for the JS that's what I thought. I can combine them as long as they have nothing to do with page placement. Correct?


And for the CSS Ive combined all the extra into one file and placed it at the top of the head. Is it really much of a time saver to add them into each stylesheet?

[Princeton]

I recommend running tests to find out what files you can merge.

And for the CSS Ive combined all the extra into one file and placed it at the top of the head. Is it really much of a time saver to add them into each stylesheet?

confused ... are you suggesting to merge all stylesheets into 1 file? If so, it's not needed nor recommended.

the idea here is to decrease bandwidth but also to generate the pages faster

[Brandon Sheley]

Great article Joe, thanks for sharing

[porcupine73]

Yes thanks for the article. I hadn't heard of some of these tools that are available. It is interesting to see the suggestions from YSlow. There's a number of things I can fix right away just by using the EXPIRES header information.

I'm pressed between using my current server as my content server hosting the subdomains or separate domains for imgs/css/js/etc., since it several times the bandwidth, storage, and processor power than I am currently using. Or maybe just going with AWS.

[porcupine73]

So I was playing around with YSlow today and made some progress on improvements. Having some issues getting .js and some .css to compress with gzip but this is in Windoze.

I made a quick plug-in and hooked it as the last thing on global_start to swap out some of my images and other content to my subdomain CDN's. Not sure if my approach is correct but it seems to making YSlow happier anyway:

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[Scalemotorcars]

Here's some online JS and CSS compressors using the very popular YUI Compressor.

This one is JS only
http://yui.2clics.net/

This one is both
http://refresh-sf.com/yui/

[abdobasha2004]

wow
thanks for sharing