You really can't rely on those numbers. More important is the response time that a "real" user sees. On Gomez' homepage they have a free test app that will...
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Patrick Meenan
pmeenan
Nov 25, 2008 2:18 pm
So, with pagetest <http://www.webpagetest.org> having been up for 8 months now with close to 26,000 tests having been run I thought it would be worthwhile to...
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Chris Korhonen
chriskorhonen
Nov 25, 2008 3:07 pm
That's interesting but too be honest I'm not totally shocked - the average user tends not to get deep (by choice or simply due to lack of access) into the kind...
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Patrick Meenan
pmeenan
Nov 25, 2008 3:21 pm
I don't think it's restricted to the average user. Something like CNN.com actually has a dedicated group of SA's. Persistent connections are enabled by...
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Chris Korhonen
chriskorhonen
Nov 25, 2008 3:34 pm
In larger organizations it is often still the case where the web developers do not have access to the production servers, or to their configuration - you'll...
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Peter Booth
alohashirt99
Nov 25, 2008 6:15 pm
Patrick, You provided an opportunity for me to ask a question that I have been wrestling with for a long time: If you imagine a web server that returns a...
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Patrick Meenan
pmeenan
Nov 25, 2008 8:48 pm
Usually the conditional get is done if the resource is still in the cache but the expires date has passed. If it is before the expiration date the request...
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Joe Pearson
joewxboy
Nov 26, 2008 1:44 pm
... developers ... configuration - ... even ... place ... Here's what I've found, working for a large site: 1) There is a constant tension between the content...
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Peter Booth
alohashirt99
Nov 26, 2008 2:06 pm
Heinlein's Razor: Never attribute to malice, what can easily be explained by stupidity. One of those adages that can help us stay sane. One of those aphorisms ...
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Bill Moseley
whmoseley
Nov 26, 2008 3:53 pm
... We have a variation on that approach. Instead of a version number we use an MD5 of the content, and it's cached for years. That way the cache is bused...
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markwhidby
Dec 2, 2008 11:10 pm
On my site (www.dogpile.com), YSlow says that 4 external scripts were found in the document HEAD. But for the life of us, we can't see what it's seeing. The...
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Dave Cheney
dilenger_2000
Dec 2, 2008 11:31 pm
Yes, but at least three of them are at the top of the <body />, and two of those require external resources. Cheers Dave On Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:10:01 -0000,...
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markwhidby
Dec 2, 2008 11:41 pm
True, but those aren't the 4 that YSlow is complaining about. The 4 it lists are close to the bottom of the <body>. ... two of...
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petebardo
Dec 3, 2008 6:29 pm
You're right about where the scripts are placed. Yslow will suggest you move your scripts the the _very_ end of the body as loading scripts before that will...
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Antonia Kwok
apkwok
Dec 3, 2008 10:30 pm
Mark, The url format of your scripts exposed a bug in the yslow code. When yslow checks for offender of the js at bottom rule, it is only searching if the...
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matcheisufriends
matcheisufri...
Dec 8, 2008 6:49 am
I read your profile today, I thought I would drop you a line and hope to become your friend! Check my personal page here: ...
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arvind gupta
bernaulli_ar...
Dec 8, 2008 10:46 am
Hi Thanks for mail. What is your ID? In Bikers Club may country(india) not listed. Please list it. Where did you see my profile? ...
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dialectgroup
Dec 8, 2008 5:44 pm
Nicole, Stoyan: thanks so much for Smush.it. It's a fantastic resource. I've created a WordPress plugin that runs every uploaded image through Smush.it behind...
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Stoyan Stefanov
ssttoobg
Dec 10, 2008 7:30 pm
Thanks Alex, this is great! A WP plugin was on my todo list actually :) Thanks, Stoyan ________________________________ From:...
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Lawrence Oluyede
loluyede
Dec 15, 2008 4:13 pm
Are there any guidelines about HTTP caching and validation under SSL encryption? I know Cache-Control: public ...
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Peter Booth
alohashirt99
Dec 17, 2008 6:05 pm
One difference is wrt browser side caching. For Internet explored users many large corporates will have a custom OS build that doesn't cache encrypted content....
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Lawrence Oluyede
loluyede
Dec 17, 2008 7:36 pm
... Yep, the nasty IE bug with Cache-control directives and SSL <http://support.microsoft.com/kb/323308>; I'm aware of that. I'm implicitly understanding that...
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embimedia
Dec 18, 2008 4:21 pm
I'm trying our smush.it with the Firefox extension, and I'm getting JS errors that appear to be stemming from a PHP error. You may want to take a look through...
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micropat
Dec 18, 2008 11:52 pm
For the past few days I've been seeing nothing but "Smushing..." for all images (whether through the extension, uploaded, URL, anything really). Any ideas?...
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yegger99
Dec 19, 2008 1:02 am
Summary: I've noticed that when the Firefox cache fills up it can take a long time for a new page to get a place in the cache. This is for both memory and disk...
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ryankoko
Dec 19, 2008 8:49 pm
I'm seeing the same thing....
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dialectgroup
Dec 20, 2008 12:21 am
... Looks like Smush.it is down :( Following the example link in the FAQ (http://smush.it/ws.php?img=http://smush.it/css/skin/screenshot.png) gives PHP...
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Philip Santosh Tellis
philiptellis
Dec 20, 2008 12:27 am
... Hi everyone, I just got an update. The filesystem on the smush.it servers seems to have run out of inodes and old files need to be cleared out. We will ...
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Nicole Sullivan
stubbornella
Dec 20, 2008 1:17 am
... Thanks for all the feedback. The problem should be corrected now. Can you please retest and let me know if you are still having issues. Cheers, Nicole...
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embimedia
Dec 20, 2008 6:23 pm
This seems to be resolved with the file system cleanup mentioned in the "smush it not smushing" thread. Mike...
