The most important step is Gzip as shown in Step 1
The second important step is SmartOptimizer as explained in Step 2
And now, the most difficult to build and test, is the .htaccess.
I bypass minor steps such as Step 4 with so few followers. In fact, I understand you: This Step 4 is too difficult.
So, this step 5 is a “Copy and Paste” code. I can’t do easier!
So, I shortcut my promise to delay the publishing of this third most important step to boost your CS-Cart website.
Why publish it now?
The Christmas season will soon beginning, so, it’s now time to have a full power CS-Cart website.
Remember, I worked and tested for 22 hours non-stop to find this (nearly perfect for me) “.htaccess”. With this .htaccess added to Steps 1 & 2, your website would go up to Yslow! result to ~88, and a PageSpeed result to ~85.
In practice, to get the 2 to 5 last points to get Grade A are hidden in minors steps. However, I will NOT give you, because, they are too difficult to acquire, and are time consuming.
[SIZE=“3”]Therefore, I wish you a merry Christmas![/SIZE]
```php
DirectoryIndex index.html index.php
RewriteEngine on
Some hostings require RewriteBase to be uncommented
1 - This is NOT my full .htaccess (the missing code is security related, and powerful SEO rules. Sorry, this missing part will be NEVER reveled)
2 - I do NOT say “My .htaccess is perfect”. Nope! It’s working fine for me. So, I hopefully it will work fine for you too!
3 - You can (need) tweak it for your own needs.
4 - My dozen of intermediary steps to get the few final points (for gaining the Grade A) are so terrible for a human being, that I prefer to NEVER publish them.
[SIZE=“3”]Now, your CS-Cart website should be faster![/SIZE]
Thanks for reading,
Lee Li Pop
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I’m testing with CS Cart at the moment so have just added the .htaccess you provided.[/QUOTE]
[SIZE=“3”]This “.htaccess” performs its best performances coupled with Step 1 and Step 2[/SIZE]
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Just a quick question, do you have eAccelerator installed and active on your server?[/QUOTE]
No I don’t, because I’m on a shared.
However, if I could afford a dedicated server or a VPS, I would use Alternative PHP Cache, because it will be included built-in to the core of PHP starting with PHP 6.
Lee Li’s .htaccess should work fine for you. My guess is that you still have the smartoptimizer .htaccess file inside the smartoptimizer folder. Remove it, clear your cache and see what happens.
I did install this .htaccess, but I didn’t notice any difference. My old .htaccess was pretty similar so that is probably why.
I did learn something though. I guess there are two types of yslow. There is a version 1 and a version 2. Apparently [url]http://gtmetrix.com/[/url] uses version 1 and gave me a “B” grade. When I run yslow on Firefox it shows that version 2 is an “A” and version 1 is a “B”.
Either way, I’m pretty happy. I never got that good of grades in school so if I’m getting A’s and B’s for my website than I must be doing something right.
I do appreciate your posts on speeding up the sites though. I did notice that doing things like enabling gzip along with smartoptimizer my site speed really increased.
I guess I missed the flush thing. I might have to take a look at it.
As for combining the JS and CSS files, I thought about it. I decided that upgrading my site is enough work already and I don’t really want to have to make more work for myself. There is no doubt that if I were to combine my CSS files that upgrading would be a huge pain in the neck for me where right now it is only a small pain.
I have kind of looked over the WebPageTest. I know that some simple things like optimizing some of my images will help.
I’d love to find out more about the CDN. For some reason my simple mind can’t figure out exactly how this works. No surprise I guess.
Lee Li, have you had any experience with “Xcache”?? I have been running it for 6 months. In Google Web Master tools my site went from Slow to Fast in the Labs section after I installed it so there is some benefit but I wondered if anyone else had tried it out.
