I ran my site through Google Page Speed on Tuesday, and scored a surprising 88 out of 100–higher than I expected. Getting above 90 is going to take some optimizations on files that WordPress updates may change, so I’m hesitant to do that, but one thing it told me to do was to cache more [...]
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Another easy Apache tweak
Posted by Dave Farquhar on February 20, 2013
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2013/02/another-easy-apache-tweak/
Hot-rod Cyanogenmod 7.2
Whatever you do, don’t call this post Optimizing Android 2.3 for Games, Graphics and Multimedia. I’ll kick your… nevermind. But of course the first thing I wanted after I installed Cyanogenmod 7.2–which is based on Android 2.3.7–on my Nook Color was to make it run smoother and faster. What else would I want? So here’s [...]
Posted by Dave Farquhar on November 15, 2012
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2012/11/hot-rod-cyanogenmod-7-2/
I have a server… and about four years’ worth of content
My new server is up and running, and let me tell you, it’s spectacular. And if you’re reading this on 6 March 2012, you’re probably wondering what I’m talking about, because everything looks just as slow as usual. That’s because the new server is still behind my firewall because I’m struggling to get my content [...]
Posted by Dave Farquhar on March 6, 2012
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2012/03/i-have-a-server-and-about-four-years-worth-of-content/
Deep Firefox SQL optimization
I was looking deeper into Firefox optimization, and I found Adventures in Firefox-places.sqlite. It’s a pretty intense analysis that goes beyond the usual simple, in-browser SQL vacuum that I’ve mentioned in the past. It was written with Mac OS X and Linux in mind, which is fine, but if you run Windows, you might want [...]
Posted by Dave Farquhar on November 1, 2011
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2011/11/deep-firefox-sql-optimization/
Making newer versions of Firefox work like a fresh install
About a year ago, I told you about how to vacuum Firefox’s SQLite database to make it run better. The trick still works, but they moved stuff around on us in Firefox 7.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on October 29, 2011
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2011/10/making-newer-versions-of-firefox-work-like-a-fresh-install/
Do you need faster Internet, or just TCP Optimizer?
A longtime reader wrote in this week recommending TCP Optimizer. I’ve used this program off and on for years, but don’t seem to have ever mentioned it on the blog. I talked about similar programs in my book, but TCP Optimizer works with all modern (and many ancient) versions of Windows, and it can make [...]
Posted by Dave Farquhar on October 27, 2011
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2011/10/do-you-need-faster-internet-or-just-tcp-optimizer/
Disable pointless tab-opening animation to speed up Firefox
Rather than just opening, Firefox tries to be cute by opening the tab halfway, then sliding open the rest of the way. If you have a fast enough system, maybe you don’t notice. But if you’re like me and like things to be as fast as possible, you can disable this behavior.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on October 26, 2011
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2011/10/disable-pointless-tab-opening-animation-to-speed-up-firefox/
What’s wrong with my 6502 machine language article?
It occurred to me this morning that writing about what was wrong with my 6502 machine language article from the early 1990s might be useful. Or maybe that was just whatever the dentist was injecting into the roof of my mouth talking, but I’m going with it. Should I cut myself some slack on account [...]
Posted by Dave Farquhar on May 25, 2011
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2011/05/whats-wrong-with-my-6502-machine-language-article/
Four simple steps to optimize WordPress
A couple of years ago, I stood up a WordPress server. I made no effort to tune it, let alone turbocharge it, which is a decision I later came to regret. If your site gets more than a few hundred hits per day, you need to tune it. If you want to get more than [...]
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2013/02/four-simple-steps-to-optimize-wordpress/