Appendix A. Speed Up PostNuke
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A very common question among PostNuke site managers is: "How do I make my site faster?" The fact that PostNuke is a modular website environment does mean that the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) produced by the program can sometimes be longer than similar static layouts produced by hand or even by WYSIWYG page generators that only display one given configuration. The database back end of PostNuke can also be a resource concern, as it is with any database-driven site. The thing to remember is that PostNuke has not yet reached its full potential. The road map laid out to get PostNuke to version 1.0 includes many changes. Earlier in the growth of PostNuke, the emphasis was on features. Now as the milestones get closer, the development is shifting to quality and speed. Each new version of PostNuke will likely be faster as it begins to natively include more planned optimizations, such as the caching of template information and database queries. Tip Images often have the greatest impact on a site's load time. Compress images to reduce their file size and reuse images when possible for best results. But as you are working with the PostNuke of today, you can do a number of things to immediately improve the performance of your PostNuke site. The following sections list applications and changes you can use to speed up PostNuke itself, and in some cases they will generally help your server overall. If you are hosting your site on an external provider, you might not be able to apply all of these options. This section is immediately useful to experienced administrators, but it is also meant to be a reference resource you can return to later when you find your site has grown and you need a little more speed. |
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