What's score of Your site on Google Speed Test???

From 77 to 88 depending on site. Main suggestion was to leverage browser caching, except an SEO person said disable browser caching, I think: <meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache"/>
So suggestions are welcomed. Turn it off? Does it hurt SEO?
 
From 77 to 88 depending on site. Main suggestion was to leverage browser caching, except an SEO person said disable browser caching, I think: <meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache"/>
So suggestions are welcomed. Turn it off? Does it hurt SEO?
Why would you not cache your static content?
 
From 77 to 88 depending on site. Main suggestion was to leverage browser caching, except an SEO person said disable browser caching, I think: <meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache"/>
So suggestions are welcomed. Turn it off? Does it hurt SEO?

Caching is a necessary evil, not just for the web but modern computing in general.

Even though your "SEO person" is wrong, I'll give the benefit of the doubt and assume they meant the cached version of your site as it appears on search engine results pages. It has zero bearing on how your site is indexed, and is actually useful (it shows you how the crawler sees the page). If you don't want Google, for example, to allow people to view a cached version of your site, use <meta name="robots" content="noarchive">
 
90 after converting the forum icons into CSS sprites. I'll see if I can improve it even more if I get the time for it.
 
A little testing on a default install, XF is fairly ordinary out of the box for this test, showing only a 77 out of 100.

I got it up to 82 by using its built-in performance features.

Adding compression, 88 out of 100.

Compression + caching, 91 out of 100.

The rest of the issue there forward is styling pretty much, being to get rid of gradients either into a sprite, or just altogether and use CSS3 and ditch supporting IE8 and older browsers for pretty gradients.

At 91 out of 100, it is ready for take-off in actual loading speed at default.

Added: Pushed it to 93 / 100 as I forgot the caching in config to utilise APC. Now fully cached and compressed... default XF install.

http://xftesting.com
 

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