Hyper cache – cache and compression
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I installed the ‘Hyper cache‘-plugin yesterday. It minifies my output-html and posts are saved as static files on the server and the plugin enables gzip-compression. It automatically clears cache and starts over after one day. I don’t like to promote shit, but this plugin rocks! 😀
Minifiy html profit
| Homepage index before: | 45,5 Kb |
| Homepage index after: | 44,7 Kb |
| Total: | 0.8 Kb |
Well, this doesn’t change the world. But check this out:
G-zip compression profit
| Documents (2 files) | 18 KB (49 KB uncompressed) |
| Images (44 files) | 124 KB |
| Scripts (6 files) | 35 KB (112 KB uncompressed) |
| Style Sheets (1 file) | 3 KB (21 KB uncompressed) |
| Total: | 180 KB (305 KB uncompressed) |
Do you see? My content is 305 KB without compression. Now it is served as 180 KB! 😉 Anyway; G-zip compression is very good if you need to safe bandwidth, but don’t forget you have some higher server load. I guess it also uses some more CPU at the client side. If you want to learn more about g-zip compression, it is already better explained on betterExplained.com.
Sending compressed data is very interesting. I think the world would be better place if every wordpress-installation has a cache plugin. 🙂