expressionenginecdnassetsminifycontent-delivery-network

Expression Engine using minimee vs using a CDN for assets

I am deploying an expression engine install and am trying to optimize the delivery of static assets as much as possible. What would likely be the better solution?

-Using Minimee to minify and concatinate css/js/html and deliver from the main server

OR

-Using a CDN like amazon cloudfront and doing the minification/gzip on that end and only serving static assets in this way?

OR

-some combination of both?

Thanks!

Solution

  • I'd definitely consider using Amazon Cloudfront as a CND first and then do additional minification as needed. I think that serving assets via a CND will give you bigger boost in performance than just minification.

    Additionally, Assets plugin for Expression Engine has a built-in Amazon S3 support so it could make syncing your assets with seamless. Alternatively, you could rsync periodically, that works well too; I have used s3cmd tool in the last it works well (don't get turned off by the look of their website, s3cmd is very easy to use.