So, there are the so called PHP accelerators : they translate the code and cache it so it will be interpreted only ones and executed very fast. The bad news is that you need to have access to the hosting server, or ask the hosting to install such an accelerator for you : I quote: " Certainly, there is no need to translate the same PHP code each time. After your PHP code has been translated into opcodes, it can be saved and reused again and again -- until the original code is modified. Indeed, caching -- saving and reusing the intermediate PHP code, the opcodes -- is the idea behind several PHP accelerators, including the open source Alternative PHP Cache (APC), Turck MMCache for PHP, XCache, eAccelerator, and the commercial Zend Platform. The latter three cache and optimize the byte code, providing for even greater speedups. "
Anyone used one of the mentioned ? I see it is not a big deal to setup them, though which one is most painless
Hi all, I would like to update what i did till now and what i didn't from the start of the subject. All below things helped to increase the speed of my site especially cssjscompress helped it too much. - i checked most of the images and resaved them with save for web preferences of photoshop. medium or high quality settings for the images below 150px. - removed video player module on the main page which used to show latest fragman videos. - removed spaces and extra lines within template.css - installed cssjscompress plugin, combined and cached css with it. I have problem with jscript merging so disabled this option for now. What i will do more? - i will experience new methods to compress Jscript files and merge them into one file without problem. - Will find an alternative or a way to optimize 2JTabs like plugins which have a lot of CSS files. - Using CSS techniques as possible as instead of CSS images. - Will remove all unnecessary css classes from the template and i will create my classes if possible.