notes on static caching

I have downloaded the build that enabled static caching (7f47e8be10f2) and uncommented the two lines I could find in the config file.

Seems so far though that it is not working, or its not all the way enabled. Did I miss something?

See
www.tradeplusprinting.com
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/110915_Y8_1KPXF/1/performance_optimization/#cache_static_content - says nothing is chached

Others Results:
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/110915_Y8_1KPXF/
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/110915_Y8_1KPXF/1/details/
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/110915_Y8_1KPXF/1/performance_optimization/

I'm not sure how long those results stay there. I'd be glad to run the test again if needed.

By the way, GoDaddy was so slow I changed services to Arvixe. Thier TTFB (Time to first Byte) was way too high, indicating  problems on thier end. They kepy blaming my code though. None of my testing would cooberate that story. I have since changed to Arvixe and the TTFB went from 1-3 seconds with GD to half a second with Arvixe.

Are you using IIS6? When I look at file sizes in FireFox (Firebug), I see they're really reduced.

I beleive arvixe uses iis7, right?

Anyhow the test show that the page was 648kb (first time view). It also says most image were compressed but not the thunmbnails for the featured items.

At also says the longest delay was loading the js files, not downloading pictures.

http://www.webpagetest.org/results/11/09/15/Y8/1KPXF/1_waterfall.png <- Link to chart

However the js files work, after the intial load, subsequent views are almost instantaneous:

http://www.webpagetest.org/results/11/09/15/Y8/1KPXF/1_Cached_waterfall.png

But I assume that because something is cached in the browser, or a temporary server cache. This speed boost is always lost within a few minutes of inactivity.

Weather it's Arvixe or the what you did with that caching (and perhaps that test doesn't detect it working), I'm not sure.

But the main page is loading really fast in my recent tests.