If you work on software in any capacity, at least skim this list. I encourage you to click through for greater detail on anything you're not familiar with, or that piques your interest.


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PHP Speedy is a script that you can install on your web server to automatically speed up the download time of your web pages. Here’s an example, from a test page:

Before PHP Speedy — 14 requests that took 4.44 seconds


After PHP Speedy — 4 requests that took 1.1 seconds


PHP Speedy automatically joined together all the appropriate files and compressed them, greatly reducing the load time of the page. Let’s see what Yahoo’s Y-Slow makes of this:
Before PHP Speedy — Grade F (44)


After PHP Speedy — Grade A (96)


You can have a look at the test page for yourself:
Test page without compression
Test page with compression

Download

You can download PHP Speedy from this link: PHP Speedy 0.5.2 download

Installation — via auto-install


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After reading an article some time ago entitled “40 Tips for optimizing your php Code” (and some others that are suspiciously similar), I decided to redo it, but properly this time with more accurate tips, providing references and citations for each and every one.

The result is this list of over 50 PHP optimisation tips…

Update: The list is more like 50+ PHP tips and tricks these days.

Enjoy!

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