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I'm a student from Western Australia, the best place in the world. I enjoy dabbling with Javascript and have solid foundations in HTML, CSS and PHP. I'm getting better every day, with less and less semi-colons missing! My number one hate is sites that *still* use tables!
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Three Ways to Speed up Your Site with PHP

3 Ways to Speed up Your Site with PHP

Thomas Drake-Brockman on Jul 22nd 2009 with 127 comments

These days, with broadband connections the norm, we don’t need to worry as much about internet speeds or the filesize of our pages. However, that’s not to say that we still shouldn’t do so. If you wish to reduce the load times on your server, decrease the number of HTTP requests, and go that extra bit for your visitors, there are a few techniques that you can use. This tutorial covers a number of PHP tricks, including caching and compression.

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