Joomla: Removing Mootools from the frontend and optimising your site

A simple one today, one simple way to slightly optimise you Joomla installation.  You will notice when using YSlow and other optimisation tools that it suggests including less javascript files.  Http requests to the same server can only return one file at a time and only one request can be made to the same server at the same time.  That is why using a Content Delivery Network (CDN) can prove useful, as well as feeding images and videos from Flickr and YouTube, not to mention the costs saved on bandwidth.  Anyway, the less request you have to make, the faster your site will load. (more…)

Optimise your site with scheduled image optimisation

I have found a tool that loslessly reduces image sizes, and best of all, it can be scheduled via a cronjob as it is a Linux based solution. (more…)