Google open sources mod_pagespeed - give your sites a nice speedbump
 

http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/download.html

For apache22 on centos and debian machines.
Just added it to 5 servers and the load times are a lot faster for me...

What kind of difference did you notice?

And if you're still running Apache, don't ;) Use nginx!

good stuff :thumbsup

Nice, thanks!

So, if you install that stuff, what kind of info is sent to Google?

do you know if this doing something different to zend optimizer and eaccelator etc and would it conflict with it?

to install it says to yum localinstall mod_pagespeed_*.rpm

did you have to recompile apache as well?

Thank you borked

Thanks a lot for a heads up!

no recompile needed - it will install the module and keep the module up-to-date (read the instructions on the url given if you don't want it to keep itself up to date)

It's much different than the PHP accelerators as it's purely HTML based ie it comes after PHP. Depending on how you configure it, it removes comments, whitespace, properly organises your css inline or in the head as well as javascript, adds image sizes (edit - fuck knows how that one works) and stuff like that to make for faster page loads, optimising how the html is sent to the client to make the best possible page for client browsers to load the quickest...

I never did any apache benchmarks before and after, but I don't think that would do anything to show "speed" - however, all I can say is on sites that are served by apache that I installed it on (even the default install), the sites went to rendering a page where you can see a page physically rendering to a page that was presented fully rendered straight away.

So in a non-scientific test, it just looked a frikken lot faster ;)

I think I caught it sending the root pass, but I could be mistaken :thumbsup

Nice I might give it a try after I evaluate the security and functional considerations a little more.

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