Caching Static, question

[pmeenan]

If you click on the checklist thumbnail and then scroll down below the checklist it will give you details about everything that failed. I don't think you're caching as well as you think you are:

FAILED (No max-age or expires) - http://ahsx1.adhostingsolutions.com/www/delivery/fl.js
FAILED (No max-age or expires) - http://cdn.socialtwist.com/2009041415306/script.js
FAILED (No max-age or expires) - http://cdn.socialtwist.com/getScriptJS.js
FAILED (No max-age or expires) - http://d14tk22m8i6bvj.cloudfront.net/jScrollPane.css
FAILED (No max-age or expires) - http://d14tk22m8i6bvj.cloudfront.net/main02-min.css
FAILED (No max-age or expires) - http://d14tk22m8i6bvj.cloudfront.net/panel-sitemap.css
FAILED (No max-age or expires) - http://d1tqw2pkoqqxbc.cloudfront.net/120...forums.gif
FAILED (No max-age or expires) - http//img-cdn.mediaplex.com/0/10629/94655/fom-webads-120x240.gif
FAILED (No max-age or expires) - http//img-cdn.mediaplex.com/0/10629/94655/fom-webads-120x522-2frame.gif
FAILED (No max-age or expires) - http//img-cdn.mediaplex.com/0/10629/94655/fom-webads-728x90.gif
FAILED (No max-age or expires) - http://www.growthtrac.com/floatbox/floatbox.css
FAILED (No max-age or expires) - http://www.growthtrac.com/floatbox/floatbox.js
FAILED (No max-age or expires) - http://www.growthtrac.com/floatbox/languages/en.json
FAILED (No max-age or expires) - http://www.growthtrac.com/images/bullet3.gif
FAILED (No max-age or expires) - http://www.growthtrac.com/includes/homepage.css
FAILED (No max-age or expires) - http://www.growthtrac.com/includes/slider-min.css
FAILED (No max-age or expires) - http://www.growthtrac.com/player/RadioPlayer.swf
FAILED (No max-age or expires) - http://www.growthtrac.com/xmenu/rm-data.js
FAILED (No max-age or expires) - http://www.growthtrac.com/xmenu/rm-images/col.gif
FAILED (No max-age or expires) - http://www.growthtrac.com/xmenu/rm-images/rc/cp.png
FAILED (No max-age or expires) - http://www.growthtrac.com/xmenu/rm-images/xmenu-sep.gif
FAILED (No max-age or expires) - http://www.growthtrac.com/xmenu/rm-kernel-js.js
FAILED (No max-age or expires) - http://www.growthtrac.com/xmenu/rm-style.css
WARNING (24.0 hours) - http://edge.quantserve.com/quant.js
WARNING (7.0 days) - http://www.google-analytics.com/ga.js

It still has the problem where it isn't counting your content served from cloudfront because of the mime types though.

Combine CSS and JS isn't about minifying, it is about reducing the number of separate js and css files that are loaded in the head. You should only have one of each with all of the code merged into a single file. In this case your situation is worse than the tool is identifying because of the mime type issue with your setup. Looks like you have at least 8 separate css files and 12 js files. The js is particularly bad because with IE7 (and Firefox < 3.6) the browser "blocks" on javascript files and doesn't download anything else when it is downloading a script file. If at all possible you should move as much code as possible to the bottom of the file instead of loading it in the head because anything you load in the head needs to be loaded before the browser will display anything (causing long "start render" ttimes).

-Pat