Re: GZipping (was: Very important JSF issue)

[Adrian Mitev <ad...@googlemail.com>]

Any tips how i can GZip my pages?!?

2006/11/23, Bieringer, Dominik <DB...@thegoldensource.com>:
>
> Okay,
>
> GZipping is working, and it is worth using it... it reduces the size of my
> page from about 400/500 kb to about 80/90 kb. ;)
>
> I was using it before, but I didn't thought of it when complaining about
> page size....
>
> Dominik
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Young [mailto:dyoung@synyati.com.au]
> Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2006 06:56
> To: 'MyFaces Discussion'
> Subject: GZipping (was: Very important JSF issue)
>
>
> Sorry, me again-   as far as stats go, you could use wget and just check
> the
> resulting file size.
>
> If you are interested in more control, and in caching gzipped responses in
> your server, see ehcache:
> http://ehcache.sourceforge.net/EhcacheUserGuide.html
>
> It contains a GzipFilter and the ability to do page caching and page
> fragement caching.  This means for commonly accessed dynamic pages that
> you
> want to refresh for everybody once every N minutes, you can cache the
> gzip'ed response, which leads to very high throughput.
>
> Of course, none of this is directly MyFaces/JSF related.. so I'll shut up
> now :)
>
> Daniel.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Young [mailto:dyoung@synyati.com.au]
> Sent: Thursday, 23 November 2006 3:46 PM
> To: 'MyFaces Discussion'
> Subject: RE: Very important JSF issue
>
> Hi again Dominik,
>
> If you have wget (command line tool on linux, I think it's available for
> windows too), you can do this:
>
> wget --header "accept-encoding: gzip" --save-headers
> "http://your.site.here/"
>
> Then if you open up the response back, it will have a Content-Encoding of
> gzip and the contents will be binary/unintelligible.
>
> If you don't have wget, you could use the LiveHttpHeaders add-on for
> Firefox, or something similar that lets you inspect the Http Headers.  I
> don't have that plugin anymore, so only tried with wget.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Daniel.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bieringer.Dominik.nf@gmx.net [mailto:Bieringer.Dominik.nf@gmx.net]
> Sent: Thursday, 23 November 2006 3:31 PM
> To: 'MyFaces Discussion'
> Subject: AW: Very important JSF issue
>
> Hi Daniel,
>
> CPU cycles are not really a concern, I think I've already added the
> corresponding attribute vor gzip encoding in server.xml on tomcat, but I'm
> not sure if it is used...
>
> Is there a way to check wheter gzip encoding is used or not? Is there a
> way
> to see some stats... e.g.: the compression ratio, etc.?
>
> Thx for the answer,
> Dominik
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Daniel Young [mailto:dyoung@synyati.com.au]
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 22. November 2006 23:48
> An: 'MyFaces Discussion'
> Betreff: RE: Very important JSF issue
>
>
> Dominik,
>
> As well as the upgrade to the nightly build, you should also consider
> enabling GZIP-encoding on your web server for production deployment.  You
> can either do this with apache/mod_gzip running out the front or by using
> a
> GzipFilter in your web app.
>
> If CPU cycles are a concern, then apache/mod_gzip on a separate load
> balancing server may be the preferred option.
>
> Daniel.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Marinschek [mailto:martin.marinschek@gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, 23 November 2006 8:02 AM
> To: MyFaces Discussion
> Subject: Re: Very important JSF issue
>
> Upgrade to the latest nightly build - link sizes are much smaller there.
>
> regards,
>
> Martin
>
> On 11/22/06, Bieringer, Dominik <DB...@thegoldensource.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> >
> >
> > I'm writing concerning two different problems:
> >
> >
> >
> > Using MyFaces links are generated like the one below: (The following
> code
> is
> > rendered for just ONE LINK!!)
> >
> >   <a href="#"
> >
>
> onclick="clear_mainBrowse_3AbrowseContent_3AbrowseListPage_3AbrowseListMain_
>
> 3AbrowseListResults_3AbrowseListResultsForm();document.forms['mainBrowse:bro
>
> wseContent:browseListPage:browseListMain:browseListResults:browseListResults
>
> Form'].elements['autoScroll'].value=getScrolling();document.forms['mainBrows
>
> e:browseContent:browseListPage:browseListMain:browseListResults:browseListRe
>
> sultsForm'].elements['mainBrowse:browseContent:browseListPage:browseListMain
>
> :browseListResults:browseListResultsForm:_link_hidden_'].value='mainBrowse:b
>
> rowseContent:browseListPage:browseListMain:browseListResults:browseListResul
> tsForm:listResults:11:panelPckLink:_idJsp74';if(document.forms
> ['mainBrowse:b
>
> rowseContent:browseListPage:browseListMain:browseListResults:browseListResul
> tsForm'].onsubmit){var
> >
> result=document.forms
> ['mainBrowse:browseContent:browseListPage:browseListMai
> n:browseListResults:browseListResultsForm'].onsubmit();
> >  if( (typeof result == 'undefined') || result )
> >
> {document.forms
> ['mainBrowse:browseContent:browseListPage:browseListMain:brow
> seListResults:browseListResultsForm'].submit();}}else{document.forms
> ['mainBr
>
> owse:browseContent:browseListPage:browseListMain:browseListResults:browseLis
> tResultsForm'].submit();}return
> > false;"
> >
>
> id="mainBrowse:browseContent:browseListPage:browseListMain:browseListResults
> :browseListResultsForm:listResults:11:panelPckLink:_idJsp74">[A]</a>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > . My page has several links on it (It's a dataTable with 50 rows and
> having
> > 4 links each row.. My page has a size of about 500KB !!!). What can I do
> > about that? That's horrible. just imagine page loading times for
> clients,
> > having slow internet connections. think about server traffic !?
> >
> >
> >
> > Is there a way to avoid this 'mega links'? Maybe it's possible to tell
> JSF
> > to generate aliases for the long component identifiers? It would be
> really
> > nice if someone can help me with that.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Dominik
>
>
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