An online checker for gzip output from servers: http://www.gidnetwork.com/tools/ And for those file permissions to make a site secure for Magento: find . -type f -exec chmod 400 {} \; find . -type d -exec chmod 500 {} \; find var/ -type f -exec chmod 600 {} \; find media/ -type f -exec chmod 600 […]

Notes: Leverage browser caching Firstly, make sure you have the mod_expires module enabled in your httpd.conf file. It should be enabled but just check to be sure. This block of code is usefully included your .htaccess file and sets the expiry to be a year from the date of delivery to the browser. There are […]

Notes: enable gzip compression by adding instructions in your .htaccess This works by adding compression to Apache’s delivery of items. drop this into the bottom of your .htaccess and then see some enhancement of performance. You’ll need to have gzip module enabled in your apache config. # compress text, html, javascript, css, xml: AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE […]