Questions tagged [mod-pagespeed]

The mod_pagespeed modules are open-source server modules that optimize your site automatically.

mod_pagespeed is an open-source module written by Google that automatically optimizes web pages and resources on them. It does this by rewriting the resources using filters that implement web performance best practices. Webmasters and web developers can use mod_pagespeed to improve the performance of their web pages when serving content from the server.

mod_pagespeed provides a pre-built binary package for HTTP server and a module for HTTP server.

mod_pagespeed includes several filter that optimize JavaScript, HTML and CSS stylesheets. It also includes filters for optimizing JPEG and PNG images. The filters are based on a set of best practices known to enhance web page performance. Webmasters who set up mod_pagespeed in addition to configuring proper caching and compression on their Apache distribution should expect to see an improvement in the loading time of the pages on their websites.

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Disable mod_pagespeed (no server conf access, .htaccess doesn't work)

I have a Wordpress site that my client wants to validate perfectly (using W3C validator). One of the issues is Google's pagespeed, which seems to be enabled by default by hosting provider. I try to disable mod_pagespeed in .htaccess file with the…
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Is there an equivalent to the mod_pagespeed Apache module for IIS?

Is there an equivalent to mod_pagespeed Apache module but for IIS?
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mod_pagespeed magento

Has anyone used mod_pagespeed in a magento store? Does it break anything (like custom optimizations etc?) Very Interested of using it, but suffering from luck of resources...
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How to install mod_pagespeed on apache with windows, and from where to download

I want to download mod_pagespeed module by google on my windows + apache installation. Any one can show me from where to download and install on apache with windows?
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What does mod_pagespeed do?

This is with reference to: http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2011/01/go-daddy-makes-web-faster-by-enabling.html But I still don't know how it works the in background to dynamically optimize pages. One more thing I could NOT understand why "Cached…
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Pagespeed Javascript Minification / Concatenation - Add Banner and Footer

I have a site that is using Pagespeed running with NGINX in order to minify and concatenate Javascript resources, What I need (if possible with Pagespeed) is to add a Banner and a Footer to the minified result such as Grunt has: Grunt file…
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mod_pagespeed won't combine CSS and JS

I've installed mod_pagespeed on our server but it won't combine my CSS and JS on our website oktoberfest.it. Obviously I've activated combine_css, combine_javascript and PassThrough in filters in pagespeed.conf file. I've also read that…
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Is it possible to use AWS Beanstalk's .ebextensions config to install mod_pagespeed Apache module?

I'm using AWS Beanstalk for my Django/Python application, and I would like to use Google's mod_pagespeed module. Is it possible to install and run mod_pagespeed using the .ebextensions/.config file?
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Pagespeed script addition, what does it do?

I've enabled mod_pagespeed, and now get this extra javascript added around the place where my HTML logo is defined. I'm not sure what this code does and how I can disable it?
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mod_pagespeed and Rails - does it improve anything?

Rails 2.3.*, mod_passenger 2.2.* and Apache 2.2.*. Is it worth installing mod_pagespeed or does Rails create all cache headers, etc. properly so that mod_pagespeed is unnecessary?
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How to disable pagespeed in the Bitnami stack?

The Bitnami stack has pagespeed enabled by default. While in development it won't be used. How can I disable pagespeed in the bitnami stack?
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How to configure mod_pagespeed for SSL pages

We have website e.g. http://www.acb.com which points to a hardware load-balancer which is suppose to load-balance two dedicated server. Each server is running apache as a frontend and uses mod_proxy to forward request to tomcat. Some pages of our…
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Disable mod_pagespeed compression for a specific image file

I'm using Apache with mod_pagespeed. For some reason I can't figure out, mod_pagespeed thinks an image is much smaller than it actually is, which means once the image gets scaled up, it's really blurry. The image in question is a CSS…
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How to add ngx_http_ssl_module to the compiled version of nginx

I have a problem with setting ssl on my server. I have configured nginx with the modpagespeed (compiled version from https://www.modpagespeed.com/doc/build_ngx_pagespeed_from_source) nginx: [emerg] the "ssl" parameter requires ngx_http_ssl_module in…
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How do I add ngx_pagespeed to elastic beanstalk?

I have an Elastic Beanstalk environment running nginx 1.6.2 Anyone know how to install the ngx_pagespeed module into this? The web instructions suggest re-building nginx, but I fear of losing the currently Amazon configured nginx.
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