10 Secret Tips To Speed Up The CodeIgniter Website
Tags: codeigniter, php, webdev
Published: 2020-07-22 14:04:56

The world is moving towards digitalization and hence the use of mobile devices and digitalization of businesses increases to the great extent. Developing a scalable, robust and secure web solution is a today’s need. There are a lot of technology choices available for scalable web development. PHP is one of the most widely used programming languages for web app development installed on more than 2 million web servers and used in developing more than 378 million web applications. PHP offers a wide range of frameworks available for effective development. Among those frameworks Laravel, CakePHP, Symfony, Yii, CodeIgniter are the popular frameworks. CodeIgniter is widely used for software and application development. It allows developers to develop web solutions with extensive toolsets and functionalities with minimum effort. Let’s start understanding the best CodeIgniter custom web development 

#Understanding CodeIgniter PHP Framework-
CodeIgniter is an open source PHP MVC framework that allows developers to build fully featured dynamics more rapidly. With the available libraries and packages one can perform multiple operations like file uploads, session management, email sending and so on. MVC framework of CodeIgniter  helps to build multiple processes of development cycle concurrently with effective design. Model-View-Controller is a logical architecture of an application that includes:

* Models- It accommodates business logics through effective functioning through computations and databases among others. 
* Views– It deals with the presentation of data provided by models.
* Controllers- It establish connection between models and views. 

#Features Of Codeigniter-
* It offers Query Builder Database support
* This framework is very lightweight
* Provides Data encryption, Full-page caching
* File uploading class
* Image manipulation library
* Supports session management, and form and data validation
* Application profiling
* Pagination
* Unit testing class
* Zip encoding class
* Bench-marking

#Website Speed Testing Tools-
* Google pagespeed insights
* Pingdom website speed test
* GTmetrix
 
#Tips To Optimize The Performance Of CodeIgniter Website-
*1. Scale Down The Server Response Time-*
Server response time is the time required by the server to respond to the browser’s request. A good server response time is indicative of a good CodeIgniter performance optimization. You can scale down the response time by using fewer server resources, a good hosting service and improve the overall performance of the codeigniter website.

*2. Remove Unnecessary Libraries-*
It has been noticed that, during the development process, each library is not required for the project. At that time, the unnecessary libraries are advised to be removed. This will give you some extra space on the server. When you are removing the libraries, it is necessary to be more careful and ensure that they should not be used somewhere else.  While you intend to move to the host server, you can erase each one of those unused libraries. While you plan to move to the host server, can remove all unused libraries.

*3. Remove index.php From URL-*
In general, when you use CodeIgniter, index.php is included in the URL. To improve the website performance, you should remove the index.php file from the URL of the website. You can use htaccess to do this. In the file of htaccess, add the code mentioned as belows and upload it on your server. It will help you to remove index.php from URL. 

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|robots\.txt)
RewriteRule^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

*4. CSS And JS Concatenation And Minification-*
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