Hi!

I have a customer that runs a XOOPS site that is painfully slow, and they can't move to a more powerful server for the most stupid reason you could ever hear: it belongs to a public University and some "bureaucrazy" fat cat denies authorization.

http://www.ugr.es/~ncog

Activating caches is possible but it seems not enough. I was thinking about removing all unneeded whitespace, newlines and all this stuff that makes HTML readable to humans but just a waste of space for computers. XOOPS uses output buffer, so it can be done.

I have two (2) questions:

1 - Should I bother? I mean, is it worth the effort?

2 - I expected to find a PHP function for this, but no luck, so I should write a custom function?

Can you add/use an htaccess file? I have had some OK results by using http compression on the server to improve things.

Don't really know, the best thing I can say about their server is that it totally sucks (yes, this is the best I can say).

That's why I'm looking for "PHP-driven solutions I can control". I activated the caches, although I'd find useful some documentation about how it works. Example: What should be the effect of the cache in "contact us" module? I'll have to try and see what happens.