Is CloudFlare compatible with mod_pagespeed?

Damon
posted this on September 28, 2012 11:40 am
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Google’s mod_pagespeed and CloudFlare have no known conflicts at this time. CloudFlare’s CDN and optimization services will generally be faster because CloudFlare is a CDN (content delivery network) as well, so running mod_pagespeed will likely be somewhat redundant. Many of the features offered by mod_pagespeed are also already available in CloudFlare’s feature set, with nothing to install on your server at all.

We recently add mod_pagespeed by Google to our dedicated server. After about 8 hours all our websites that were running Cloudflare stopped working. We paused Cloudflare and either waited or Purged the cache and they all came back on. Therefore, we must conclude that some servers may work as Cloudflare says and others will not. Be careful using both these tools together as it may take time before the conflicts show up.

After evaluating the speed between the two we are more pleased with Mod Pagespeed by Google. Over all performance appears to be faster and you never get those annoying Cloudflare warnings saying your page is offline.

Enter your web address. You do not need http or www. If we were putting ours in it would just be lubyg.com.

Anything above 50 means your website is fine. It all depends if you are running an html site or a database driven site. Database sites return lower results. There are things you can do to speed up your site but that is not the subject of this post.

Many times there are connectivity issues with the web. They often do not have anything to do with your website. For example, if you are on Comcast you may not see your site due to issues with Comcast. It can be local or Comcast wide. You may see your site on another provider like Verizon but not on your Cable Modem provider.

There are many connections on the web that can go wrong. After being on the web since the early days of black blinky screens I am surprised how it works 99% of the time. If you cannot get to Google then the whole internet may be down. If you can see some sites and not others it is likely your ISP

There are only 2 ways to really get found on the web. First is to pay for web advertising. Second and more preferred is to have good quality written content that is unique to your business and or location. This involves thinking like a typical web user. If you were looking for your type of business in your location how would you search for it? Next, you pay your webmaster to add those words to your website and use your Title Tags and Description Tags to include the same text. A good website that is properly developed by a professional is far more valuable than any other type of advertising. 

If you get between 300 and 1,000 visitors per month to your website you are doing just fine. Think about it. If you get 500 visitors to your website per month average that is 6,000 visitors per year! How much is that worth? If you were to pay Google or one of the other search engines for that kind of traffic it could cost you a thousand or more per month depending on your competition. If you want to spend that kind of money you are better off paying it to your webmaster.

Tap on Settings Icon

Find “Mail, Contacts, Calendars” and tap

Tap on “Add Account”

From the List tap on “Other”

Tap on “Add Mail Account”

Type in; Your Name, Email Address, Password, and give your new Email Acct a name such as “My Gmail”…

On “Incoming Mail Server” type in your info.
- Server mail setting is: mail.yourdomainname.com
- YOUR USER NAME IS YOUR FULL EMAIL ADDRESS!
- Type in your password.
- Click on “Next”

On “Outgoing Mail Server” type in THE SAME INFO AS IN PREVIOUS STEP!
- Tap on “Next”

After you are finished you may get 2 messages that SERVER CAN’T BE VERIFIED! JUST CLICK CONTINUE!

That will take you to next screen where you can tap on “Save” which means you are FINISHED…

That is it…

You can post a comment on this post if you have any questions.

Thanks, LubyG Team

In the image below we have drawn a red arrow to the icon you need to click to set up Microsoft Outlook, Windows Mail, Microsoft Outlook Express, MAC mail pre and post Lion. There are also manual instructions for others like Thunderbird. Most systems are set up without SSL / TLS. Comcast and some others now require IMAP over POP 3.

1. Automatic sitemap to help SEO
2. SEO tools to help make sure title and descriptive tags are understood. WordPress uses Tags rather than keywords. There are even automatic Tag generators. Good for SEO.
3. Subscriptions feature. People can subscribe to your sites new Posts.
4. Mobile Compliant. Reach up to 25% more customers.This number grows every year. In a few years it is estimated your site visitors will be nearly 50% mobile phone users. Mobile compliant sites are easy to read and have a much lower “bounce rate.”
5. Share with Social Media by sending in one email to a special address.
6. Allow site visitors to share your info on their Social Media.
7. Database capture of all forms filled out on your website. You can even export information to an Excel format.
8. Pay with a Like feature allows you to give a coupon offer for anyone who Likes your Facebook and other Social Media.
9. Social Media comments allows customers to leave a comment on any post. They can even use their Facebook or other Social Media logins. This has the potential to increase communication with customers.
10. Easily edit any page or Post with the “Inline Editor” Plugin. This allows you to see your site on the front end and edit the text and images while seeing what your customer sees.

WordPress is much more than a Blogging system. The site you are looking at is made with WordPress and can be configured many ways. It can start with a normal home page or your latest blog post. You can also create “sticky” posts that stay at the top of the list. Normally WordPress posts the latest item at the top like all blogging systems. Configuration and proper plugins are essential to your website success. Competition grows daily. Every day you wait to move into WordPress is another day you are falling behind the competition.

If you would like to see a great graphic that shows the current usage of the top 5 search engines click here and wait a while for it to load.. This window will open in a new tab or window.

It is easy to say that Google sends most of the web traffic but the graphic really shows how unimportant the others are to your bottom line. Of course, getting 9% more traffic would be great but if it does not happen naturally it is likely not worth the time and money.

We are always ready for this to change. However, until it does we do not discuss other search engines very often. Now you know why.

Should your company be mobile? Yes. Just ask Google. If you look at this page by Google and don’t understand it feel free to contact us. We can work with 99% of all websites on the market. Complex sites like Real Estate companies may not always work with property search forms. However, normal search forms work fine on mobile devices.

What we will need to get started:

1. Access to your website via FTP or an Administrative area that allows us to add coding to your website. This involves a username and password of some type. Contact your web developer if  you are unsure.

2. First 12 months payment up front for the year. You can opt for month to month after the first year. Automatic recurring payments via credit card or PayPal only.

Do you want an example? Go to our website on your mobile device. Just browse lubyg.com.

One of the easiest way to create a secure password is to use an old phone number like (212)VI6-3124 as it contains letters, numbers and symbols. You can use dots, dashes between the number sets or parenthesis around the area code. Don’t use your current phone number as someone could guess that.

We used letters in our phone numbers back in the day. You may be too young to recall something like this. If that is the case use one of your common passwords and add some symbols and a 4 digit pin number that you can remember plus upper and lower case letters. You can also swap out letters for symbols. I had a friend that used something like R@dio1420 where the letter a is replaced with @.