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Posted by Michael Fesser on 09/08/07 21:17
..oO(Jerry Stuckle)
>Michael Fesser wrote:
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>> There would be much more waste if you have to rename a file from .html
>> to .php and redirect all old links to the new one.
>
>Not at all. A redirect is quite fast and efficient.
While parsing all .html for PHP might waste resources on a single
machine, a redirect wastes bandwidth (on a high-traffic site this
counts!) and resources on a thousand machines around the world. Browsers
have to send another request, search engines and proxys have to update
their caches.
Thirteen Simple Rules for Speeding Up Your Web Site:
11: Avoid Redirects
http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#redirects
>And the redirect
>doesn't need to be done forever.
At least some months if you don't want to break old links. In theory it
should be kept forvever.
>It wouldn't have been necessary if the files had been named correctly in
>the first place. And the sooner a bad decision like this is corrected,
>the better it will be.
Correct. No .php in URLs.
Micha
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