{"id":27,"date":"2009-08-31T18:33:59","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T16:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vladimir-shapiro.com\/en\/blog\/2009\/08\/31\/apache-compression-magic-impact-on-performance\/"},"modified":"2016-08-18T11:29:41","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T09:29:41","slug":"apache-compression-magic-impact-on-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vladimir-shapiro.com\/en\/blog\/2009\/08\/31\/apache-compression-magic-impact-on-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Apache Compression: Performance Magic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently I have revisited the performance issue on my largest project – Diorama.Ru<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 4000 users with 60.000 page views hitting the server every day. I am proud to have such a “playground” for performance optimization.<\/p>\n

We’ve started with the MySQL tuning<\/a> several months ago, then I have introduced the application level caching using Smarty<\/a> template engine and finally pushed the last button – Apache gzip compression via mod_deflate<\/a>.<\/p>\n

First of all many thanks to Kalid Azad<\/a> for his clear summary<\/a> of the problem on the BetterExplained<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So what potential I’ve seen in my case? Below is the sample screenshot from HttpWatch<\/a> trace, executed on Diorama.Ru <\/a>before the compression was turned on:<\/p>\n

\"Screenshot:<\/p>\n

This is the trace from a simple forum page. Look on the numbers highlighted (response time and volume of data transferred).<\/p>\n

And here where we come after the simple compression:<\/p>\n

\"Http<\/p>\n

The data was compressed and transferred two times faster<\/strong>. Note this is note the best improvement as the current page has a lot of heavy image content which cannot be compressed. On the pages with the pure text, like a forum index you can win even more performance.<\/p>\n

I am really satisfied with the results and really “flying” over the forum pages<\/a>. So do our visitors :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently I have revisited the performance issue on my largest project – Diorama.Ru.\u00c2\u00a0 4000 users with 60.000 page views hitting the server every day. I am proud to have such a “playground” for performance optimization. We’ve started with the MySQL tuning several months ago, then I have introduced the application level caching using Smarty template […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vladimir-shapiro.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vladimir-shapiro.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vladimir-shapiro.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vladimir-shapiro.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vladimir-shapiro.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vladimir-shapiro.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116,"href":"https:\/\/vladimir-shapiro.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vladimir-shapiro.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vladimir-shapiro.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vladimir-shapiro.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}