pagespeed

I posted a similar question here Serving Compressed Assets in Heroku with Rack-Zippy but decided to give up on that service, since I couldn't get it to work. I ran PageSpeed Insights on my website to determine the speed of my website. The most important suggestion I received was to Enable Compression. Compressing resources with gzip or deflate can reduce the number of bytes sent over the network. Enable compression for the following resources to reduce their transfer size by 191.2KiB (74% reduction). I've followed the instructions on this website https://developers.google.com/speed/docs

I use Google fonts and my site's typography. Looks great but it adds a great overhead. Is there a way I can still get the same look and feel for my website without compromising the speed of the site? I am analyzing my site here https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed and when I use Google fonts, I am getting a very low score around 60, but if I remove these fonts, then I have a good score. Is there a way I can use these fonts without compromising the web page quality? My priority is page optimization. Short answer: no. Slightly longer answer: no, you can try but it is highly unlikely

I have a very large site and it takes pretty long time to load. It takes around 120 seconds. What I'm trying to do is loads 1st half of the site loads 1st. Then user can surf while others parts are being loaded. What I'm trying to do is below. 1st of all is this possible ? According to my knowledge Yes since Google PageSpeed does that. But the problem is if I use PageSpeed I would have to change my DNS server settings and etc. I would like to do this myself. How can I get it done ? What type of technology should I use ? Given that pages have the .php extension and written in PHP language.

I've installed Google mod_pagespeed on Apache 2.2 and everything seems to be working except for the fact the image spriting is not working. I've set the LogLevel to debug and the only message I'm getting is: [Mon Mar 10 17:51:58 2014] [info] [mod_pagespeed 1.6.29.7-3566 @26487] Attempting to sprite css background. No further messages related to spriting show up in the logs. I can also confirm the Image Spriting is switched on: /mod_pagespeed_statistics?config Configuration: Version: 13: on Filters ah Add Head cw Collapse Whitespace cc Combine Css jc Combine Javascript gp Convert Gif to Png jp

Yet my site pages load very slowly. Usually there's a 2-3 second lag before the page renders, and I cannot figure out why. My site is powered by Wordpress v3.4.2. I'm on a dedicated virtual server with plenty of resources and bandwidth. There are no huge images loading. My CSS files load before JS scripts. I've spent a lot of time trying to optimize the site within the constraints of the platform (Wordpress + plugins, etc). I don't expect my site to be SUPER fast, but I need it to not be SO slow. I'm using Chrome's developer tools to audit my site but the suggestions do not appear to explain

At the Velocity 2010 conference, Google said that header compression can yield big gains : Hölzle noted a glaring inefficiency in the handling of web page headers, which provide information about a user’s IP address, browser and other session data. The average web page makes 44 calls to different resources, with many of those requests including repetitive header data. Holzle said compressing the headers produces an 88 percent page load improvement for some leading sites. How does one ensure that the response headers sent by the web server are compressed? Is this even possible with today's