http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/ E-Junkie Forum RSS en-us Copyright 2012, 19.5 Degrees. All rights reserved. webmaster@e-junkie.com webmaster@e-junkie.com Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:03:37 GMT Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:38:30 GMT 681 E-JUNKIE 5 http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/ http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/logo.gif 290 104 http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/4016/pg/0#post13302 http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/4016/pg/0#post13302 Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:03:37 GMT
This has been in production for approximately three weeks now[1]. Any js or css, and most html, coming from any of our web servers should be served with gzip compression if the browser indicates it supports that.

The exception is a few forms which generate an inline download; I discovered that due to a long-standing bug, Internet Explorer didn't work with content compression enabled on those pages, so I went back and disabled compression for just those specific pages. Those forms are all used by sellers, and mostly all generate compressed zip file downloads anyway, so no big loss there.

Unfortunately, I just discovered that in applying the configuration change to accomodate IE's bugs, I slightly messed up on one web server, resulting in content compression not being activated at all on it; I think that's the one that you happened to be hitting when running the speed test.

Anyway, it's fixed now, and should *really* be enabled site wide again. Thanks for pointing it out!

[1] When I make a low-level change like this, I prefer not to advertise it; too many people see such a change notice and try to link it to whatever problem they're having without really understanding what's going on. I hope you'll pardon my curmudgeonly ways ;-D]]> E-junkie Discussions; E-JunkieRocketSurgeon http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/4016/pg/0#post13302 http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/4016/pg/0#post13302 Mon, 8 Feb 2010 16:40:14 GMT
I just checked and page speed is showing

# Compressing https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/box.js could save ~24.7kB.
# Compressing http://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/boxec22_enc.js could save ~4.2kB.

so I believe it is not operational?]]> E-junkie Discussions; epatio http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/4016/pg/0#post13302 http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/4016/pg/0#post13302 Sun, 7 Feb 2010 23:45:29 GMT E-junkie Discussions; E-junkieGuru http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/4016/pg/0#post13302 http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/4016/pg/0#post13302 Sun, 7 Feb 2010 16:55:27 GMT
has this been implemented?

Regards

Denis]]> E-junkie Discussions; epatio http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/4016/pg/0#post13302 http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/4016/pg/0#post13302 Sun, 10 Jan 2010 08:00:19 GMT E-junkie Discussions; bunkbedking http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/4016/pg/0#post13302 http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/4016/pg/0#post13302 Sun, 10 Jan 2010 07:16:09 GMT
We looked into this in the past, and for engineering reasons decided not to enable it at that time.

HOWEVER looking at the system now, I think those reasons are no longer valid.

I'll be setting this up and doing some tests; barring anything unexpected, we should be able to enable this in the short term. We'll keep you posted.]]> E-junkie Discussions; E-JunkieRocketSurgeon http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/4016/pg/0#post13302 http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/4016/pg/0#post13302 Sat, 9 Jan 2010 09:21:36 GMT
with Googles new obsession with page loading speed, they are recommending to compressing resources with gzip to reduce their transfer size.

They recommend:

# Compressing https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/box.js could save ~24.7kB.
# Compressing http://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/boxec22_enc.js could save ~4.2kB.

I believe you are using an apache server - can you please set up server side gzip compression?

Benefit to your customers is improved page rank with google

Thanks

Denis]]> E-junkie Discussions; bunkbedking