Tutorial On Optimizing your Xara Website for Google Pagespeed

[sculptex]

Hi, I have just written the following article on optimizing your website for Google Pagespeed. This not only makes google happy, it also makes your website load faster for visitors and consequently makes your server use less resources.

https://www.sculptex.co.uk/optimizin...gle-pagespeed/

I would love for someone from Xara to comment on the "Eliminate render-blocking JavaScript and CSS in above-the-fold content" section as I am sure this could be improved but would be much better done by the application itself during the html page generation.

[behzad]

Very nice, I will bookmark this and use it once I finish my website. Thanks.

[gwpriester]

Wow! That is an amazing amount of time and effort (and help). Thanks for this.

[Boy]

Looks great. Thanks a lot!

[roly]

Wow, thank you Sculptex, but most of it is beyond my capabilities. Question for Xara, could much of this not be done directly into the Xara program? This would prevent many users of Xara software to have to make all of these changes and put a smile on many faces. Not everyone is comfortable making such changes, but I am sure the Tech savvy people at Xara are. In the long run, this could perhaps even bring in more users of Xara web products.

Ciao

Roly

[sculptex]

Hi Roly,
For reasons briefly mentioned in the article, its best for Xara not to mess around with htaccess settings as not all servers use it and they could break a website if it overrode an already existing htaccess file.

Regarding images, it would be cool to have this as an option in the publish stage to maximize compression, but it would have to be optional as it slows down the process considerably and some people may want to retain the meta info such as camera settings, location etc. for example on a gallery website.

The CSS and JavaScript optimizations though would be perfect for Xara to look at optimizing,
Like you suggest, the better Xara Software made websites perform (in addition to already looking great), the more interest it should generate in the Software!

[roly]

Thanks Sculptex, for the clarifications.

Ciao

Roly

[Orelanic]

Hi Roly,


The CSS and JavaScript optimizations though would be perfect for Xara to look at optimizing,
Like you suggest, the better Xara Software made websites perform (in addition to already looking great), the more interest it should generate in the Software!

O yes indeedy this would be a god send, you can get plugins for wordpress so any chance this may happen with xara designer?