Hello,


I was looking at Google's PageSpeed and seeing a lot of issues that seem in part due to JChatSocial. I know very little in regards to some of this, so I am only posting the suggestions that Google PageSpeed gave me with JChatSocial's name in it, that is causing in part, my sites dismal performance. If you want to to perform the scan yourself, and you have my website (I did not see a way to provide that to you privately), here is the link to test my site, or any for that matter.
https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/

Do you have any suggestions on what would be the most effective, efficient and quickest way how to fix these issues., in a manner they do not show up again if the software is updated?


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Kind Regards,
Jeff

Hi Jeff,

this is known and normal, what you can do is installing a plugin ike JCH Optimize to minifu and compress css and js files of JChatSocial. About the expiration of the emoticons images, you can setup an htaccess configuration accordingly.

A good tutorial to optimize Joomla can be found here https://www.siteground.com/tutorials/joomla/joomla-speed.htm

Kind regards,
John

Thanks,

I looked at the page you provided and it says:
"Add .htaccess Optimization Rules

Htaccess files handles the way your webservers process your site. There are few rules you can add at the end of the .htaccess file that will improve the performance of your Joomla site:"

"Expires headers - similar to ETag but allows you to set different expiration times for different file types"

"# Image files expiration: 1 month after request
ExpiresByType image/bmp "now plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType image/gif "now plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType image/jpeg "now plus 1 month"


So is 1 month after request what we should set it too?

Kind Regards,
Jeff


Also is there anyway to upgrade to Enterprise for people who purchased the regular version, before Enterprise came out?

Hi Jeff,

of course this is strictly related to the update frequency of images on your site. Indeed 1 month is a reasonable value in most cases, it's uncommon change continuosly images once uploaded to the site, but you have to evaluate this of course.

To upgrade to the Enteprise is not a problem, please contact me in private at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it for more details.

Kind regards
John