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mitchel.sellers
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04/11/2008 12:29 AM
Well after getting my installation issue resolved I thought I would share my first impressions on page blaster and its impacts on loading times for my site. On my blog, before the test SuperVision reported an average page load time across the world of 4.04 seconds, after installing page blaster with default configuration this time droped by 65% to 1.49 seconds. On my homepage before it showed a load time average of 1.176 seconds, after page blaster it was reduced to .7 seconds. Overall major improvements, and I haven't even looked into merging of CSS or anything yet!

Mitchel Sellers MCITP, MCPD, MCTS Director of Development IowaComputerGurus Inc.

John Mitchell
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04/11/2008 7:40 AM
And just think of how much that is saving on CPU and DB hits when you start scaling up to 1000's of requests. Let me know if you have any questions on the CSS & JS optimizations, you may even be able to get close to speed of Snapsis.com ;)

mitchel.sellers
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04/11/2008 1:42 PM
I do have questions about the CSS and JS optimizations.... I have commented out the lines in the config as the guide recommended, but have noticed no differences. Using one website analsys tool the page size is exactly the same with the exact same number of HTTP Requests....

Mitchel Sellers MCITP, MCPD, MCTS Director of Development IowaComputerGurus Inc.

mitchel.sellers
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04/11/2008 1:52 PM
I guess another question for this would also be if compression is working...since the page size doesn't appear to change.

Mitchel Sellers MCITP, MCPD, MCTS Director of Development IowaComputerGurus Inc.

John Mitchell
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04/11/2008 1:59 PM
We'll be able to tell more if you turn on tracing by updating the Snapsis.PageBlaster.config file < trace level="Debug" After changing the trace level you need to restart the app so that the trace listener can be attached. The trace file will then start to log all the operations and tell us why some things are being excluded and if the compression is working. If you don't have YSlow yet then I highly recommend getting it, as you can do see in detail what is happening and taking the most time.

John Mitchell
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04/11/2008 2:00 PM
Compression is working according to YSlow.

mitchel.sellers
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04/11/2008 2:03 PM
I'll have a look tonight at turning on tracing and I'll post back here. Thanks for the confirmation on compression, I do have YSlow at home, just not here on this machine.

Mitchel Sellers MCITP, MCPD, MCTS Director of Development IowaComputerGurus Inc.

John Mitchell
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04/11/2008 2:03 PM
It looks like your top ten page does have a merged CSS file, so you are close: http://www.mitchelsellers.com/Blogs/Top10Lists/tabid/256/Default.aspx There are some additional rules for moving JS links to the head which will get them merged into one file. If they are commented in your Snapsis.PageBlaster.config file then you can uncomment those, if they are not there then you can get them from the default.config file located in DesktopModules/Snapsis/PageBlaster/Config/Default.config

mitchel.sellers
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04/11/2008 2:08 PM
Ahh, I will look at that tonight. After making a change like that will I need to restart the app or does page blaster update itself?

Mitchel Sellers MCITP, MCPD, MCTS Director of Development IowaComputerGurus Inc.

John Mitchell
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04/11/2008 2:21 PM
The only change that requires a restart is the one for trace logging. You may want to clear cache on these changes while you are optimizing though.

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