Make your Silverstripe sites faster in less than 1 hour.

1. Quick Silverstripe sites
John rambling about performance

2. Survey responses
Interesting very interesting...
http://www.surveymonkey.com

3. Why?
Increase conversions
Reduce exits
Reduce load
Reduce traffic

4. My client is a cheap arse...
<1 hour = 33% saving
80% the same

5. Areas for improvement
Meat and 3 veg (files)
Been there, done that (SS)
Set and forget (Apache)

6. Meat and 3 veg (files)
Less
Smaller

7. Less files
Combine folder = original directory
http://pastie.org/2090172
All CSS up front
Not necessarily all javascript

8. Smaller files
Minification
Compression
http://www.smushit.com/ysmush.it/

9. Easy freakin peasy (ss)
Static
Partial

10. Static Caching
HTML file
Fast
Not dynamic
No Random
No Member specific
No Forms
Rules can become complex
http://pastie.org/2090183

11. Partial Caching
HTML snippet
Key regeneration
Slower
Powerful
Dynamic

12. Partial Caching
http://pastie.org/2095038
Menu’s (lists of pages) are slow
Caching makes it slower (??)
Less is more
Only around variables

13. Set and forget (apache)
Expires and Gzip
http://pastie.org/2090802
Pagespeed
http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/docs/module.html
http://pastie.org/2095136

14. Extras
Don’t use .typography
Uninstall GoogleSitemaps
“Submit a Sitemap ... about pages ... we might not otherwise discover.”
Uninstall any other modules you are not using
Upgrade to latest version