We’ve been looking into page speed here at Best Served Cold recently, it’s playing a more important part of search engine rankings now-a-days, but it’s still a bit of a black art. After installing the firebug extension for firefox, we started working out exactly how to get 100 out of 100 and if that is actually achievable. Well it is:
To acheive this with no advisories took some time and effort, including setting up a CDN (Amazon S3 currently), a global HTML proxy (CloudFlare) and playing around with Google’s mod_pagespeed.
So there you have it, super fast pages, confirmed by Google Page Speed!
Not anymore
99 on Pagespeed Firefox and also 99 on Pagespeed Google canary.
I can confirm that it is hard to do.
I have a cdn in a subdomain, that’s a cheaper solution then using amazon.
CloudFlare’s rocket loader definitely helps a website achieve a pagespeed score of 100, as it miraculously did with mine… a big shoutout to W3 Total Cache, which works seamlessly with Cloudflare for those using WordPress… loading speed and Google page rank also increases significantly… best part is both are free.
Hi Xander,
Thanks for the feedback. It’s appearing as 100/100 on my Firefox plugin at the moment, but it can depend on where you are in the world I suppose.
I can see that having a CDN in a subdomain is a good idea, but whilst it’s a better way of delivering static assets, it doesn’t deliver assets faster globally. For example, if I’m in China, I want my assets delivered from a server close to China, not from Manchester in the UK where the server is based.
This combined with the Cloudflare reverse proxy service means that more than 99% of the time, all content is delivered local to the user, providing fast page speed no matter where you are in the world.
Hi Woktoss,
Yes, CloudFlare is excellent, as is W3 Total Cache. A great set of tools to get perfect page speed on WordPress sites