Placing Your Home Business Site On A Diet

As more people are moving towards content management systems like Drupal, InsiteCreation, and Wordpress inevitably these sites become loaded down with code.

It is not difficult to eventually see websites with pages that approach the 1mb range like this one Dogfish.com at 1056.9k bytes in size you'll need every trick in the book to make it fast.

Google has even stated it will be part of their rankings algorithm, which is kind of funny as some of the major slow downs I've seen in my sites is when using google analytics.

Thanks to the Firefox web browser and a few key plugins you can analyze your site's performance and minimize the bloat.

This may involve removing some of those nifty graphics, something most of us prefer not to do.

Drupal makes this easier, not quite simple but easier. It already has the ability to combine CSS files into one file and does the same for Javascript.

Instead of serving up multiple files now we'll hopefully only serve up one file. And, we'll do the same with javascript.

Now that they are aggregated (combined) we're not done yet. The next step would be to compress and gzip them.

For this Drupal has a module called CSS Gzip and for Javascript there is the module Javascript Aggregator.

By implementing this just on this site we've taken it from 249.6k bytes down to 109.7k bytes a substantial reduction which in turn should mean an improvement for our visitors.

And, after all that is all that really matters right?

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