On 2 Aug 2012, at 10:02 AM, Marek Mollin <rog...@gmail.com> wrote: > Anyone have any ideas why the same website over ssl is loading much slower. I > mean mostly images and static content. I am aware of small overhead on first > request with ssl and handshakes, but images and other static files load > noticeably slower. > > I am running on nginx and ubuntu 12.04. > Using script from slices, with some changes (added my own ssl certs etc). >
Check your headers. Browsers tend not to cache resources obtained over SSL unless there's a cache control or expires header that explicitly allows it. --