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• Optimization (Score:1)

  by ChrisDolan (2855)

  According to the excellent YSlow plugin [yahoo.com] for Firefox, about 900K of that is uncompressed YUI javascript. There's no excuse for that -- the raw YUI libraries are very well documented, which is pointless for a production website. I use scriptaculous [aculo.us] and prototype.js [prototypejs.org] for my own work and I use yuicompressor [yahoo.com] to squish my JS and then gzip it. Gzipped content works smoothly on all browsers except Safari.
  
  To make it work with Safari too, you have name your file .jsgz instead of .js.gz and then do the following in
  • Re: (Score:1)

    by Alias (5735)

    More to the point, does ANY of that shit get used on the front page?
    
    If not, and they are just there for caching purposes, the script tags can be moved down to the end of the page just before the so that the page renders FIRST and doesn't block while it pulls the JavaScript to cache it.
    
    • Re: (Score:1)

      by Ron Savage (5224)

      Add these lines to /etc/hosts:
      
      127.0.1.2 ad.doubleclick.net
      127.0.1.2 images.use.perl.org
      127.0.1.2 pagead2.googlesyndication.com
      127.0.1.2 www.google-analytics.com
      
      Errr, no, that's right, you shouldn't have to :-(.
      
      • Re:Optimization (Score:2)

        by Juerd (1796) on 2008.04.29 11:25 (#62471) Homepage

        Inspired by your post, I added http://images.use.perl.org/yui/* [perl.org] to the list of the Adblock extension for Firefox. It's fast now, and I still have the CSS :)

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        • Re: (Score:1)

          by chromatic (983)

          That helped immensely. Thank you.