Site Wide Optimization

Site Wide Optimization is to speed up your sites download. It does this by targeting two  bottlenecks. Kilobyte compounding and  HTTP request overload are targeted for this optimization. These terms are advanced so a bit of explanation is needed:

KB compounding happens normally but is the main culprit in slowing down CMS. Each Joomla extension may have its own included files. These included Javascripts, Stylesheets, HTML, and Images add to the overall page weight. KB compounding happens when you have multiple extensions on a page with multiple include files. Not much can be done to eliminate these includes from the page because you need them, but we can optimize them which will reduce the page weight.

HTTP requests happen for each item you have included on the page. An image requires an HTTP request, so does a Javascript file, and a Stylesheet file. KB compounding is the issue with the weight of these files, but there is also an issue with the number of HTTP requests that your page compounds together. Browsers can only download a specific number of different file types at one time. For instance: a browser may only be able to download 3 images, 2 Stylesheets and 1 Javascript at a time (each browser approaches their request multi-threading differently). Which means your visitor needs to wait until that one Javascript is downloaded before it can attempt to download another. You may have 7 Javascript files on one page, which means you'll have to wait 6 times longer.

Our site wide optimization clears up KB compounding and HTTP request overload with a dynamic script that compresses all Stylesheets and Javascripts and adds far futures headers and all the included files that come with a page. It is seamless and completely dynamic so you don't have to change anything you are doing already.