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Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 09/08/07 22:18
Michael Fesser wrote:
> .oO(Jerry Stuckle)
>
>> Michael Fesser wrote:
>>> 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.
>
Some redirects are unavoidable. And redirecting some pages for a few
months is much better than wasting CPU cycles forever.
Oh, and yes. Yahoo is SUCH an expert on these things. ROFLMAO!
>> 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.
>
No one else shares your views.
> Micha
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