Re: Speeding up php.net

On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Levi Morrison <levim@php.net> wrote: > Dear webmasters, > > Several months back I worked on reducing the number of files the beta > PHP.net needed to function. I got it down to 18 on the homepage and (I > think) 22 for documentation pages. We are up several files since than and > are load times are routinely over 1s. I think UserVoice stuff and GoSquared account for a good chunk of those. See my earlier thread about "fixing" that. I've also reduced the initial page load by 2mb, and each page hit after that by ~70. > A few questions in the interest of speeding php.net up again: > > 1) Can we remove the elephpants? I realize are loaded later on in the > process but they do slow things down quite a bit. How exactly slow they anything down? They are not in the above-the-fold content and don't block anything > 2) Didn't we used to use static.php.net? That server seems to be a fresh > web server installation with nothing on it. I'm not sure if serving things > from there was ever faster but it seems to be down. It works just fine: http://static.php.net/www.php.net/images/php.gif I however removed. Will replace it with mirror round-robin later which will bump how many requests the browser makes in parallel. But since static was only used for www it wasn't very useful. > 3) Do all servers have the ability to create new files? If they do we can > merge the CSS files into one file and serve it instead. This can *possibly* > be done with JavaScript files as well if we are careful. Are you saying you want to create a file in the web dir on the fly? No. And even if they did.. This is what we have master for. -Hannes