Hi Everyone,
I currently do some courses at W3C about mobile web development with html 5 and I did a lot of improvements at TWG from the stuff I learned there.
Since TWG a optimized .htaccess is coming with the download which enables compression and caching of the web server. If you have an Apache web server I recommend to use this file by simply unzipping the htaccess.zip. Furthermore all css files a dynamically combined and compressed. the compress css files is stored in the cache folder for one day. You can disable this optimization during setup by setting $optimize_css = false; or you can delete this file by clearing the session cache (in the administration or by clicking on the bandwidth icon.
Below I have listed the measurements I have made with TWG 1.8.7 and TWG 1.8.8:
| Requests | Size in KB | % from Cache | Page Speed score without .htaccess | Size in KB with .htaccess | % from Cache with .htaccess | Page speed score with .htaccess | |
| TWG 1.8.7 free | |||||||
| Empty | 16 | 196 | 88,8 | 46 | 74 | 95,9 | 88 |
| Demo first page | 23 | 232 | 93,5 | 46 | 107 | 95,3 | 88 |
| Demo detail page | 26 | 418 | 92,3 | 55 | 292 | 97,3 | 92 |
| TWG 1.8.7 registered all features enabled | |||||||
| Empty | 22 | 256 | 94,9 | 40 | 89 | 95,5 | 91 |
| Demo first page | 33 | 294 | 94,2 | 50 | 124 | 96,0 | 91 |
| Demo detail page | 36 | 477 | 93,5 | 58 | 294 | 97,3 | 92 |
| TWG 1.8.8 free | |||||||
| Empty | 10 | 157 | 93,6 | 56 | 57 | 93,0 | 95 |
| Demo first page | 17 | 193 | 92,7 | 55 | 87 | 97,7 | 93 |
| Demo detail page | 18 | 374 | 92,8 | 66 | 259 | 96,9 | 96 |
| TWG 1.8.8 registered all features enabled | |||||||
| Empty | 13 | 201 | 94,5 | 55 | 68 | 95,6 | 95 |
| Demo first page | 20 | 238 | 92,9 | 60 | 101 | 95,0 | 94 |
| Demo detail page | 21 | 419 | 86,9 | 70 | 270 | 97,0 | 95 |
| Summary | |||||||
| TWG 1.8.7 free Average | 22 | 282 | 92 | 49 | 158 | 96 | 89 |
| TWG 1.8.7 Registered Average | 30 | 342 | 94 | 49 | 169 | 96 | 91 |
| TWG 1.8.8 Free Average | 15 | 241 | 93 | 59 | 134 | 96 | 95 |
| TWG 1.8.8 Registered Average | 18 | 286 | 91 | 62 | 146 | 96 | 95 |
| Summary total | |||||||
| TWG 1.8.7 Average | 26 | 312 | 93 | 49 | 163 | 96 | 90 |
| TWG 1.8.8 Average | 17 | 264 | 92 | 60 | 140 | 96 | 95 |
So now you see a lot of numbers. Lets write a small summary of the most important numbers:
- Use the provided htaccess. Up to 55% less data is transfered compared to TWG 1.8.7. It even boosts the page speed score of TWG 1.8.7 to 90!
- Up to 42% less requests are used in TWG 1.8.8. This is for the basic system. The more images you have the more requests of course you get.
- The table does not show the optimized loading of resources. So the real time for loading the page should even be better.
Please note: The css files in the main directory are not used anymore. They have been moved to the css folder!
You find TWG 1.8.8 in the forum already: http://www.tinywebgallery.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=14
Have fun using TWG,
Michael