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)
Don’t take my word for it
You can have a look at the test page for yourself:
Download
You can download PHP Speedy from this link: PHP Speedy 0.4.6 download
Installation – via auto-install
In order to install PHP Speedy you should:
- Download and unzip the PHP Speedy package into its own directory
- Point your browser to the PHP Speedy directory
- Follow the installation instructions
Installation – manual
If you prefer to manually install things:
- Download and unzip the PHP Speedy package into its own directory
- Delete the index.php and install.php files
- Open config.php
- Fill in the blanks for the variables (apart from username and password). You might enter something like this:
$compress_options[’document_root’] = “/home/my_site/public_html”;
$compress_options[’javascript_cachedir’] = “/home/my_site/public_html/aciddrop/php_speedy/”;
$compress_options[’css_cachedir’] = “/home/my_site/public_html/aciddrop/php_speedy/”;
$compress_options[’minify’][’javascript’] = “1″;
etc - Make sure the directories you specified for the cachedirs are writable
- For the GZIP, minify and expires options 1 is on and 0 is off
- Open the php file that controls the output of HTML that you will be compressing. This might be something like index.php. Include the php_speedy.php file at the very top, i.e like this:
require(’/home/my_site/public_html/aciddrop/php_speedy/php_speedy.php’); - Add this code at the very bottom $compressor->finish();
