Tagged ‘javascript’
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Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
For those of us cheapskates on shared servers, our greatest weapon against the admonitions of YSlow is .htaccess, that innocuous text file that has the capacity to blow up your website if you mistreat it. To defeat rules #3: Add an Expires or Cache-Control Header, #4 GZip Components, and #13 Configure ETags, we need the following .htaccess swank.
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Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
Beating rule #10 is easy. We want to serve CSS and Javascript that has been minified (and obfuscated, if you please) to our readers, because that's less overhead for them to download. We also want to do it without screwing up our code, so I recommend using Yahoo!'s UI Compressor.
