Comments on: Web Site Performance

By: rudyamid

rudyamid — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:18:55 +0000

Hi turtie,

I’ve never thought about getting Slash-dotted or the Digg-effect. But your idea sounds pretty good!

By: turtie

turtie — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:46:02 +0000

loads pretty fast it seems? what will happen to you if you ever make it to the front page of digg? is that automatic crash status? turtie's last blog post..Matlab GUI Tutorial - Mapping a Keyboard Button to Execute a GUI Callback

By: rudyamid

rudyamid — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:04:22 +0000

@Periapex:
Ah, I guess that’s the trade off you have to make when you live way out there.

@Leon:
That’s good to know. Looks like your network proxy is from Florida, but is your school’s computer in Jamaica?

By: Leon

Leon — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:01:13 +0000

Interesting consideration. But your page is just fine. I'm using a school computer and it loaded A.O.K. Leon's last blog post..My thoughts on…male breast implants

By: Periapex

Periapex — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:52:07 +0000

We live too far from the nearest Bell central office and Rogers doesn't have any cable in our area. I'm telling you, it's the middle of nowhere. I've tried a couple of different companies to see if they could get me broadband wireless, but we also live in a valley with tall trees surrounding the house. So that won't work. The only option is satellite internet (expensive and I'm not sure I want to splurge on that when I get broadband at work). Hopefully we might see some sort of powerline broadband thing one day. Periapex's last blog post..American Board of Endodontics Diagnostic Terminology.

By: rudyamid

rudyamid — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:07:10 +0000

@Beth:
Several times connecting to sharethis.com, it was noticeably slow. I think the javascript code they use is bloated. The widget doesn’t get used much anyway, so it’s going to be the first one to go. When I stumble a page, I use Firefox toolbar, which is way faster. I also Google Analytics, which is the only one I use for gathering stats. There’s a temptation to use others, but really, GA is the only one that matters.

@Ben:
I try to keep dial-up’ers in mind, but they’re a dying breed. People on dial-up should be using RSS feed instead. Much faster.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:03:16 +0000

Most sites these days seem to have a 6 to 7 second loading time. However I find a lot of us on broad band connections tend to forget that there are still people out there on dial up. Something to keep in mind. Ben's last blog post..Improve your site with Robot Replay

By: Beth

Beth — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:21:31 +0000

The ShareThis plugin is one of the worst when it comes to slowing load times. For me this morning, your page loaded within 3 seconds. I think mine averages 4-6 seconds and this is after removing plugins I wasn't using and analyzing my database. I'm on a shared server so moving images wouldn't work for me since they would all run from the same place. Also, any stats plugins, will slow a site down and I know FireStats' database tables are huge. Beth's last blog post..My Quest Is Still On To Receive A Pep-Talk Phone Call From Diane Sawyer.

By: rudyamid

rudyamid — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 04:50:36 +0000

@Periapex:
The ancient Chinese proverb said, “The geek shall inherit the earth.” Speaking of ancient, why can’t Bell Canada or Rogers wire up your ranch with broadband?

@Zhu:
I’ve pretty much outsourced my images to another offsite (faster, I think) server. I haven’t done all of them, which is going to be part of my optimization plan.

By: Zhu

Zhu — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 03:40:25 +0000

Your page loads fine for me - I have good speed too. My blogs usually loads between 6-8 seconds... Mostly the images are slowing it down. Zhu's last blog post..The Amazing Race