Hi, I want to generate links to Smushit so that visitors can optimize images
online.  I can very much understand if you don't want allow links that trigger
immediate optimization (although that also would be great), however it would be
very nice if you can at least allow links that fill in the textarea with default
URLs, so that the visitors can then complete the process by clicking on the
"Smush" button.

For example the URLs might look something like this:
http://www.smushit.com/?url-list=http%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%2Fabc.jpg,http%3A%2F%2\
Fexample.com%2Fxyz.jpg

Best Regards
N.E.

 

Hi, I want to generate links to Smushit so that visitors can optimize images online. I can very much understand if you don't want allow links that trigger immediate optimization (although that also would be great), however it would be very nice if you can at least allow links that fill in the textarea with default URLs, so that the visitors can then complete the process by clicking on the "Smush" button.

For example the URLs might look something like this: http://www.smushit.com/?url-list=http%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%2Fabc.jpg,http%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%2Fxyz.jpg

Best Regards
N.E.

Thanks for your response Antonia.

I don't use yslow. Could you kindly give me a URL for Smushit that is an example
of how to achieve my goal?

Thanks,
N.E.

--- In exceptional-performance@yahoogroups.com, Antonia Kwok <antoniakwok@...>
wrote:
>
> The second part of your request is already supported by smushit. It is how
yslow passes the list of images to be optimized.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Sep 4, 2010, at 10:40 AM, "nebloke" <nebloke@...> wrote:
>
> > Hi, I want to generate links to Smushit so that visitors can optimize images
online. I can very much understand if you don't want allow links that trigger
immediate optimization (although that also would be great), however it would be
very nice if you can at least allow links that fill in the textarea with default
URLs, so that the visitors can then complete the process by clicking on the
"Smush" button.
> >
> > For example the URLs might look something like this:
http://www.smushit.com/?url-list=http%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%2Fabc.jpg,http%3A%2F%2\
Fexample.com%2Fxyz.jpg
> >
> > Best Regards
> > N.E.
> >
> >
>

Hello?  Hellooooo?  Is this thing on?

If anyone is out there... Are there any people from Yahoo or any developers for
Smushit actually in this group, or do I need to go barking up some other tree?

--- In exceptional-performance@yahoogroups.com, "nebloke" <nebloke@...> wrote:
>
>
> Thanks for your response Antonia.
>
> I don't use yslow. Could you kindly give me a URL for Smushit that is an
example of how to achieve my goal?
>
> Thanks,
> N.E.
>
> --- In exceptional-performance@yahoogroups.com, Antonia Kwok <antoniakwok@>
wrote:
> >
> > The second part of your request is already supported by smushit. It is how
yslow passes the list of images to be optimized.
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> > On Sep 4, 2010, at 10:40 AM, "nebloke" <nebloke@> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi, I want to generate links to Smushit so that visitors can optimize
images online. I can very much understand if you don't want allow links that
trigger immediate optimization (although that also would be great), however it
would be very nice if you can at least allow links that fill in the textarea
with default URLs, so that the visitors can then complete the process by
clicking on the "Smush" button.
> > >
> > > For example the URLs might look something like this:
http://www.smushit.com/?url-list=http%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%2Fabc.jpg,http%3A%2F%2\
Fexample.com%2Fxyz.jpg
> > >
> > > Best Regards
> > > N.E.
> > >
> > >
> >
>

In the spirit of "teaching a man to fish"...

(1) install the free version of HTTPWatch (http://www.httpwatch.com/download/)

(2) Install ySlow

(3) Analyze a page with ySlow

(4) Start HTTPWatch recording

(5) Click on the SmushIt link next to an image

(6) Stop HTTPWatch recording and find the request to SmushIt.

What you find is something like this -

http://www.smushit.com/ysmush.it//ws.php?img=http://www.siteconfidence.com/image\
s/videoTitleStatic.jpg

And you get an application/json response

{"src":"http:\/\/img-cdn.mediaplex.com\/0\/7778\/42351\/AGv3-banner-prospect.jpg\
","src_size":69968,"dest":"http:\/\/smushit.zenfs.com\/results\/b552f8a5\/smush\\
/%2F0%2F7778%2F42351%2FAGv3-banner-prospect.jpg","dest_size":68277,"percent":"2.\
42","id":""}

Src = the source image URL

Src_size = original image byres

Dest = link to optimised image

Dest_size = site of optimised image

Percent = percentage saving

Id= some sort of tag, dunno what.

But since Antonia kindly replied you can use the POST method in her reply as
opposed to the GET via the URL above if you want. The POST method sounds like it
can accept a list of images which is good.

cheers,
Steve


--- In exceptional-performance@yahoogroups.com, Barry Hunter <barry@...> wrote:
>
> Err, you could just install YSlow, and observer what it does?
>
> On 8 September 2010 13:58, nebloke <nebloke@...> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >
> > Hello? Hellooooo? Is this thing on?
> >
> > If anyone is out there... Are there any people from Yahoo or any developers
> > for Smushit actually in this group, or do I need to go barking up some other
> > tree?
> >
> >
> > --- In
exceptional-performance@yahoogroups.com<exceptional-performance%40yahoogroups.co\
m>,
> > "nebloke" <nebloke@> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks for your response Antonia.
> > >
> > > I don't use yslow. Could you kindly give me a URL for Smushit that is an
> > example of how to achieve my goal?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > N.E.
> > >
> > > --- In
exceptional-performance@yahoogroups.com<exceptional-performance%40yahoogroups.co\
m>,
> > Antonia Kwok <antoniakwok@> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > The second part of your request is already supported by smushit. It is
> > how yslow passes the list of images to be optimized.
> > > >
> > > > Sent from my iPhone
> > > >
> > > > On Sep 4, 2010, at 10:40 AM, "nebloke" <nebloke@> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hi, I want to generate links to Smushit so that visitors can optimize
> > images online. I can very much understand if you don't want allow links that
> > trigger immediate optimization (although that also would be great), however
> > it would be very nice if you can at least allow links that fill in the
> > textarea with default URLs, so that the visitors can then complete the
> > process by clicking on the "Smush" button.
> > > > >
> > > > > For example the URLs might look something like this:
> >
http://www.smushit.com/?url-list=http%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%2Fabc.jpg,http%3A%2F%2\
Fexample.com%2Fxyz.jpg
> > > > >
> > > > > Best Regards
> > > > > N.E.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>

Hi Antonia,

I did indeed miss that message. Your help is much appreciated!

You can see the links that I am able to now automatically generate, thanks to
your help, over at http://ImgOps.com/

( Although it doesn't work until you use the site together with an image URL. 
Here is an example: http://imgops.com/www.angrybearblog.com/cat.jpg )

Hopefully it will eventually lead a good deal more new website developers over
to Smushit and in turn to YSlow, and speed up more websites, and make the world
a better place, and solve global warming, and lead to world peace.

Best Regards,
N.E.

--- In exceptional-performance@yahoogroups.com, Antonia Kwok <antoniakwok@...>
wrote:
>
> I replied to you directly on Tuesday without posting to the group.  You may
have
> overlooked this in your mailbox.  Anyway, the URL and parameters are below.
> BTW, I am from Yahoo.
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Antonia Kwok <antoniakwok@...>
> To: nebloke <nebloke@...>
> Sent: Tue, September 7, 2010 11:34:16 AM
> Subject: Re: [exceptional-performance] Re: Wish to link to Smushit with
> specified images for optimization
>
>
> Use POST to http://www.smushit.com/ysmush.it/
>
> In the post body, parameter name is "img", the value is the list of image url
> delimited by "\n".
>

Hi,

I've recently released a new YSlow extension - Web Metrics Framework. You can
install it from Mozilla Add-on gallery:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/221495/

It's a new ruleset for YSlow based on Google Web Metrics:
http://code.google.com/speed/articles/web-metrics.html

For more details, read my post:
http://www.javascriptrules.com/2010/08/25/web-metrics-framework/

The source code is in my GitHub:
http://github.com/marcelduran/Web-Metrics-Framework

Your feedback and comments are highly appreciated to help me improving this
extension.


Thanks,

Marcel

So I have tweaked my .htaccess file to include expires headers, however on my
home page I have an image slideshow that uses timthumb.php
http://www.darrenhoyt.com/2008/04/02/timthumb-php-script-released/ they format
like this  <img
src="/scripts/timthumb.php?src=/images/whatever.jpg&h=150&w=150&zc=1"> The
expires date on this seems to be the present... this is dynamic content so I
added the following code to .htaccess:

# Force no caching for dynamic files
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
<FilesMatch "\.(php)$">
   Header set Cache-Control "no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, max-age=0"
   Header set Pragma "no-cache"
</FilesMatch>
</IfModule>

Yet YSlow is still picking up the timthumb.php files as being incorrect, how
come? is it not picking up Cache-Control or have I done something wrong?

Thank you

Will

Hi Marcel,

thank you for the reply, I'm a little confused, the link I gave
http://www.darrenhoyt.com/2008/04/02/timthumb-php-script-released/ is to a page
with info about timthumb.php.

Here's an update on the issue - Firstly I got rid of that mod_headers code I
posted earlier. Using Firebug I inspected the images on my website created via
timthumb.php. Looking in NET > Images I got 200s on all images on first load
after clearing the browser's cache, when I refreshed the page I got 304s. The
Cache-Control is reported as max-age=0. So I presume it's working ok and YSlow
is simply getting confused by the php script in the image src attribute?

Thank you

Thank you Marcel, I understand now :-)

I've made an enquiry on the timthumb forum to see if this can be fixed.

--- In exceptional-performance@yahoogroups.com, Marcel Duran <contact@...>
wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying this demo page: http://www.darrenhoyt.com/demo/timthumb/
>
> But I'm not getting any expiration headers. Actually Expires is coming with
> the current date/time in GMT
>
> curl -I "
>
http://www.darrenhoyt.com/demo/timthumb/scripts/timthumb.php?src=/timthumb/image\
s/sample.jpg&h=150&w=150&zc=1
> "
> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 20:32:43 GMT
> Server: Apache/2.2.3 (Red Hat)
> X-Powered-By: PHP/5.1.6
> Cache-Control: max-age=0
> Expires: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 20:32:43 GMT
> Connection: close
> Content-Type: image/jpeg
>
> Make sure you're following
> http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#expires and setting those
> headers properly.
>
> Best,
>
> Marcel
>
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 4:19 AM, billy_pigeon17 <will.timbers@...>wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Hi Marcel,
> >
> >
> > thank you for the reply, I'm a little confused, the link I gave
> > http://www.darrenhoyt.com/2008/04/02/timthumb-php-script-released/ is to a
> > page
> > with info about timthumb.php.
> >
> > Here's an update on the issue - Firstly I got rid of that mod_headers code
> > I
> > posted earlier. Using Firebug I inspected the images on my website created
> > via
> > timthumb.php. Looking in NET > Images I got 200s on all images on first
> > load
> > after clearing the browser's cache, when I refreshed the page I got 304s.
> > The
> > Cache-Control is reported as max-age=0. So I presume it's working ok and
> > YSlow
> > is simply getting confused by the php script in the image src attribute?
> >
> > Thank you
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Marcel Duran
>

Hi all -

Anybody aware of any work being done to measure page impact of third-party
plugins? Something we're talking about around the water cooler at meebo today.

I know Steve Souders did some work on this earlier this year (his P3PC project),
but that's crowdsourced, and I'm thinking more along the lines of a canonical
setup for performance measuring, in order to start figuring out a set of good
standard metrics to compare the impact of third-party providers on the
underlying page.

IMO the toughest thing is going to be getting upper bounds on what any given ad
network might deliver on a given page load. At least non-ad widgets should
hopefully be comparable.

I'd really love to hear about any work that's going on around this at the
moment.

Thanks - Jared

(Haven't posted in a long while, I think since SpriteMe launched--just left a
short tenure at an open source-unfriendly employer for Meebo; it's so nice to
get paid to focus on front-end dev and performance full-time :-)

FYI new timthumb.php version. The project author Ben Gillbanks has updated
timthumb.php code for improved caching (Expires Headers) and correct status
codes (304), amongst other improvements. Download/copy latest version from
http://code.google.com/p/timthumb/

--- In exceptional-performance@yahoogroups.com, "billy_pigeon17"
<will.timbers@...> wrote:
>
>
>
> Thank you Marcel, I understand now :-)
>
> I've made an enquiry on the timthumb forum to see if this can be fixed.
>
> --- In exceptional-performance@yahoogroups.com, Marcel Duran <contact@> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying this demo page: http://www.darrenhoyt.com/demo/timthumb/
> >
> > But I'm not getting any expiration headers. Actually Expires is coming with
> > the current date/time in GMT
> >
> > curl -I "
> >
http://www.darrenhoyt.com/demo/timthumb/scripts/timthumb.php?src=/timthumb/image\
s/sample.jpg&h=150&w=150&zc=1
> > "
> > HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> > Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 20:32:43 GMT
> > Server: Apache/2.2.3 (Red Hat)
> > X-Powered-By: PHP/5.1.6
> > Cache-Control: max-age=0
> > Expires: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 20:32:43 GMT
> > Connection: close
> > Content-Type: image/jpeg
> >
> > Make sure you're following
> > http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#expires and setting those
> > headers properly.
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Marcel
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 4:19 AM, billy_pigeon17 <will.timbers@>wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi Marcel,
> > >
> > >
> > > thank you for the reply, I'm a little confused, the link I gave
> > > http://www.darrenhoyt.com/2008/04/02/timthumb-php-script-released/ is to a
> > > page
> > > with info about timthumb.php.
> > >
> > > Here's an update on the issue - Firstly I got rid of that mod_headers code
> > > I
> > > posted earlier. Using Firebug I inspected the images on my website created
> > > via
> > > timthumb.php. Looking in NET > Images I got 200s on all images on first
> > > load
> > > after clearing the browser's cache, when I refreshed the page I got 304s.
> > > The
> > > Cache-Control is reported as max-age=0. So I presume it's working ok and
> > > YSlow
> > > is simply getting confused by the php script in the image src attribute?
> > >
> > > Thank you
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Marcel Duran
> >
>

I'd been pulling my hair out since early May of this year trying to figure out
why my Wordpress site would randomly crash the Firefox 3.X browser. I thought
for sure it was some rogue ad from a shady advertiser via remnant display. Then
I thought maybe there was some plugin conflict of some sort.

Literally months of troubleshooting - disabling entire ad networks, uninstalling
Flash, harassing my sales rep to track down the problem since it must be an ad,
tearing apart my templates, etc.

In the end it turned out to be the addition of this just above my opening <body>
tag:

<?php flush(); ?>

I had added that to my template based on the Best Practices document, but had
forgotten to put two and two together. I finally went back through my emails to
see when I started noticing Firefox crashes coming out of the blue, and noticed
that I added the above to my site a couple of days prior.

I spoke to a developer after the fact and he remarked "Oh yeah, flush has always
been unstable."

So thanks so much for a recommendation that caused me five months of angst and
annoyed countless visitors to my site. Thank goodness I finally found the
problem and corrected it. You might want to put some sort of caveat in your
document.

On a side note, my site did not crash in Firefox 4 Beta, if that's any help to
anyone.

Sincerely,

Vic

We're trying to come up with a standardised way of measuring first-byte
time in boomerang.  It would be cool if people here could add their
opinion here:
http://developer.yahoo.net/forum/?showtopic=7296

Philip

YSlow 2.1.0 is now available (courtesy of Marcel Duran).  Detailed release notes
please refer to YDN blog:
    
http://developer.yahoo.com/blogs/ydn/posts/2010/10/yslow-2-1-0-release-offers-ma\
jor-bug-fixes/

Download it here:
     https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5369/

Twitter:
     http://search.twitter.com/search?q=yslow

Questions and feedbacks welcome.

Thanks,
-betty