Magento

Hi all,

Magento 1.0 version uses proxy.php to collate the Javascript files and send them as one request. And in one thread
http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/4298

I see Moshe’s reply stating

We have implemented dynamic script compression, so all scripts are served as one file with spaces removed, gzip/deflated, and with cache management headers.

For frontend all scripts are one socket / 55K, and for admin it’s about 80K together with ext-js.

Server overhead is about 1ms.

The pages are just flying.

But in reality, I observe that firebug shows 227 KB still for the Javascript on the home page and the performance is still a bit worrying. Also wonder if the following can be/has been implemented -
i. Use proxy.php for CSS files as well
ii. Has GZIP been used to zip the contents of Javascript and CSS files?

1. in theory it could be used for CSS but magento allows dynamic location of skin css files, and correct implementation of proxy.php might require minor changes in architecture, that can affect backward compatibility with themes. Perhaps in 2.0

2. Please try enabling gzip in .htaccess, it is disabled by default to allow real-time http traffic in PEAR upgrades console and dataflow progress window.

thanks Moshe....that did it for me ...improved my site a great deal ..though I need to reduce the number of requests that are being requested for CSS, images etc ...

And one more thing when you said Gzip interferes with dataflow progress window, does that mean something serious?

Nothing serious, you will just not be able to see the progress as it goes, only after everything is done.

2. Please try enabling gzip in .htaccess, it is disabled by default to allow real-time http traffic in PEAR upgrades console and dataflow progress window.

How does one actually enable gzip compression - my js is also hitting around 260kb and is really making the site sluggish.

I’ve tried uncommenting what I thought was the correct parts of the htaccess, but to no avail :

What are the steps needing to be taken to get the compression going?

For reference my installation is on a Media Temple DV server.

you need to restart the apache server after changing this configuration for gzip to take effect

I noticed that if you muck with the header block, and move the JS below the CSS (where it creates the proxy.php url) it speeds up rendering of the page slightly.  Browers need CSS for position, but not JS.

@srinigenie: i do not think that changes in .htaccess require apache restart.

@substrakt_jim: is it possible that mod_deflate is not installed/enabled?

Finally got the proxy.php to help me compress and club my CSS files as well

http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/8032/

Take a look and let me know incase you find something wrong ....

substrakt_jim - 01 May 2008 10:40 AM

2. Please try enabling gzip in .htaccess, it is disabled by default to allow real-time http traffic in PEAR upgrades console and dataflow progress window.

How does one actually enable gzip compression - my js is also hitting around 260kb and is really making the site sluggish.

I’ve tried uncommenting what I thought was the correct parts of the htaccess, but to no avail :

</IfModule>

<IfModule mod_deflate.c>

############################################
## enable apache served files compression
## http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#gzip

    # Insert filter
    SetOutputFilter DEFLATE

    # Netscape 4.x has some problems...
    BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html

    # Netscape 4.06-4.08 have some more problems
    BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip

    # MSIE masquerades as Netscape, but it is fine
    BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
    # Don't compress images
    SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \.(?:gif|jpe?g|png)$ no-gzip dont-vary

    # Make sure proxies don't deliver the wrong content
    Header append Vary User-Agent env=!dont-vary

</IfModule>

<IfModule mod_ssl.c>

What are the steps needing to be taken to get the compression going?

find this section, line 50 in htaccess, and uncomment “php_flag zlib.output_compression on”

## enable resulting html compression.

#php_flag zlib.output_compression on