Reduce Page Loading Times With PHPSpeedy

Tony Williams | Feb 03, 2008 | View Comments

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If you run your own website or a blog then this post is for you. PHPSpeedy is a new free script that will make your pages load at blistering speeds, by making fewer HTTP requests, adding a far-future expires header, and gzipping other page elements.

Following Everton’s instructions, I added PHPSpeedy to my site in around 2 minutes, and my pages speeded up instantly. To add PHPSpeedy to your site, do the following:

(Note: backup your index.php file before attempting this. If you are unsure of what you are doing, please don’t try this!)

  1. Download PHPSpeedy to your blog’s root directory
  2. Change mod the PHPSpeedy config file to 777 and then go to http://www.yoursite.com/php_speedy to configure PHPSpeedy
  3. Choose which options you want to use (I left all on as default except for ‘GZIP Page’ as it stopped my homepage loading). Once done PHPSpeedy creates a test page to check that everything is working ok
  4. If it is, then add the following the code as instructed by PHPSpeedy at the TOP and BOTTOM of your theme’s index.php file

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