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PageSpeed is a WebServer module that automatically optimizes pages and the resources they use. Google offers it as a free service through their DNS product.

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How do I enable gzip Compression on NGINX PageSpeed Module resources?

I have been focusing heavily on optimizing a certain website so that it scores 100 on the Google PageSpeed Insights tool (for both mobile and desktop). Most of the items are working flawlessly, but I continue to get the "Enable Compression" warning…
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When should you use and not use Etags?

I was just looking at our site on WebPageTest.org and one of their recommendations for speeding up a website is: ETag headers should generally not be used unless you have an explicit reason to need them I was wondering what this means. Does it…
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Page load long stall times. What is this?

I have been studying the performance of a website I am building, and notice a curious thing that I can't find the answer to: two requests (always the same two) mysteriously have prolonged stalled times adding drastically to the overall page…
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Nginx+pagespeed module | image cache time is 5 mins on first page load

I have a problem with nginx/pagespeed module. The images cache-time is default 5 mins on first pageload. First time: Second time: There are in my nginx.conf: ## # PageSpeed ## pagespeed on; pagespeed FileCachePath…
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How to Build nginx 1.4.0 and ngx_pagespeed in Ubuntu/Debian?

How to Build nginx 1.4.0 and ngx_pagespeed in Ubuntu Create a directory to download necessary packages (optional) : mkdir pagespeed && cd pagespeed Make sure that you have latest version of nginx, I recommend using nginx repo. To add nginx repo…
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Time to first byte: why is it so high?

I recently changed the host of one of my websites, and I noted that pages are loading slowly. The elements of the page themselves are quickly loaded (the pages are lightweight, CSS and JS are minified, GZIP is on, JPEG are compressed...), but the…
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Is it sensible to use both pagespeed and cloudflare?

We're using google's pagespeed service. From what I can gather it just draws the page from our webserver and runs it through the mod_pagespeed optimisation module. I'm wondering does it do any proxy/caching as well, or is it strictly one request…
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Any way to speed up my website in other countries?

My website(social network) was built with django, cassandra && memcache, rabbitmq, mysql it used rabbitmq to serve POST requests (often it user submitted contents), to balance the load of mysql. And memcache && cassandra to serve GET requests (often…
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Yum can't add rpm repository via yum install command

I have CentOS Linux release 7.4.1708 Linux distro. I need to install some package. The first command to execute is to add repoistory: yum install https://extras.getpagespeed.com/release-el7-latest.rpm When I run it, command hangs and prints errors…
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ngx_pagespeed admin statistics don't load

I followed the official install guide to build nginx with the latest stable pagespeed module. It works in some regards so I'd like to debug further with the admin tools. They are enabled in nginx as follows; http { pagespeed FileCachePath…
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How to reduce "Connecting" time incurred for a request

I am trying to optimize speed of website and during this process I have found that. A connecting time of around 620ms is incurred everytime I request a page. Please see screenshot below for detailed information This is persistent. Is there any way…
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CentOS 7: Nginx systemctl hangs on start, why?

I compiled nginx with pagespeed and made the nginx.service file in /usr/lib/systemd/system/nginx.service but when i try to do systemctl start nginx it just hangs, nginx does start but systemctl hangs. I have to use ctrl+c to get out.
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Google PageSpeed suggests compression - but my site is https

Google PageSpeed suggests to deliver some static files like e.g. JavaScript, CSS. But as our site is HTTPS only we disabled compression in our web server because of security reasons. As far as I understood the BREACH attack it is not secure to…
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mod_pagespeed own js and css render blocking

My mod_pagespeed gives a lower score because it's own js and css are render blocking. Given that the tool is designed to speed up, not slow down, I don't think this is desired behavior by design. Has anyone come across this before? Here are the…
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Is it possible to configure a CDN so that it will step out of the way for a subset of regional IPs?

We have a website which targets customers in China, both expat and local Chinese. We have an ICP license which allows us to host in a datacenter inside China. Internet in China is actually as fast as anywhere else (faster than most places actually),…
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