Aussie-Dave
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Hi,
Since Google introduced speed as one of its score matrix I've become rather obsessive about increasing page loading speeds. I've commence a new site and it's also host in Australia. By tweaking bits and pieces (WP) I've obtained a 95/100 score.
One of the major issues in Australia is bandwidth. Unlike the USA, UK etc..etc.
derail
EG - I used Steam to purchase games. The fastest speed I can get from OZ is 350Kb/sec (50 miles away). Whereas download from US (LA) I get constant D/L of 1.1Mg/sec (10,000 miles away).
/derail
The thing that slows the site down are images, css and scripts. I've added minify but can't do optimise the images are further or they'll look crappy.
So I've just added cloudflare. However as there are no Australian nodes, everything is served from the US.
When the site loads initially loads there's a 3 sec blank page, then whamo to whole site loads.
Every page after this loads practically instantly.
Have site on a VPS (only site using it):
50GB Disk Space
50GB Bandwidth
2 CPU cores @ 3.2 Ghz
1GB RAM | 1.5GB Burst
What concerns me the site is really only for Australian and New Zealand. With no Austalian cloudflare node/s here...images, scripts and css are served from the USA. Which inevitably will always have many more hops back and forth.
Given the above I feel I'm in a catch 22 and not sure if I should keep cloudflare or if I should see if I can obtain a faster VPS with more throughput of bandwidth speed...Somethnig that ain't throttled or throttled less.
What are your thoughts please?
Since Google introduced speed as one of its score matrix I've become rather obsessive about increasing page loading speeds. I've commence a new site and it's also host in Australia. By tweaking bits and pieces (WP) I've obtained a 95/100 score.
One of the major issues in Australia is bandwidth. Unlike the USA, UK etc..etc.
derail
EG - I used Steam to purchase games. The fastest speed I can get from OZ is 350Kb/sec (50 miles away). Whereas download from US (LA) I get constant D/L of 1.1Mg/sec (10,000 miles away).
/derail
The thing that slows the site down are images, css and scripts. I've added minify but can't do optimise the images are further or they'll look crappy.
So I've just added cloudflare. However as there are no Australian nodes, everything is served from the US.
When the site loads initially loads there's a 3 sec blank page, then whamo to whole site loads.
Every page after this loads practically instantly.
Have site on a VPS (only site using it):
50GB Disk Space
50GB Bandwidth
2 CPU cores @ 3.2 Ghz
1GB RAM | 1.5GB Burst
What concerns me the site is really only for Australian and New Zealand. With no Austalian cloudflare node/s here...images, scripts and css are served from the USA. Which inevitably will always have many more hops back and forth.
Given the above I feel I'm in a catch 22 and not sure if I should keep cloudflare or if I should see if I can obtain a faster VPS with more throughput of bandwidth speed...Somethnig that ain't throttled or throttled less.
What are your thoughts please?
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