Today I've Installed Page Speed 1.7 Beta for Firefox 3.6 and tested it on both my sites and some related sites to mine. Here's the results: Note: 80/100 is the minimun 100/100 is the max value. My sites: 1) The3dtechnologies.com 79/100; 3 years Thesis Thema 2) Nickdeiana.com 77/100; 1,5 years Arthemia Theme 3) Cabinrentalsideas.com 82/100; 1 year Frugal Theme Conclusion The three sites host in the same web server. Despite the3dtechnologies.com is more old, and has more traffic than cabinrentalsideas, it has a low page speed. My question is: Can Thesis help the page speed value to grow? Please let me know what is your speed page value, and what wp theme do you use. Other related sites: Problogger.net 78/100; copyblogger.com; 79/100 shoutmeloud.com 71/100; johnchow.com 78/100
If your questions are about wordpress then google is the wrong sub forum I am confused what your question is and where the xx/100 score comes from ??? going by http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/ Cabinrentalsideas download time T1 1.44Mbps 5.34 seconds and a few warnings The3dtechnologies download time T1 1.44Mbps 8.91 seconds more warnings johnchow download time T1 1.44Mbps 26.49 seconds and lots of warnings
I see you edited your post to say that now, after my post. that explains where the score came from. This is the bit i do not understand. Going by the page speed test i did it's slower than your other one that has less traffic but it's only a matter of seconds and the difference is not worth the bother of changing things. If it's only speed you want then go back to using old style "bulletin boards" like before the internet and just use a TXT file you can probably have a donwload speed of less than a second. In any case, page download speed depends on the content you have on the page NOT just what wp theme you use. try your tests again via the speed checker i used in my first post.
I've noticed that my score is more higher on the site which use Thesis. So, I throught that the score depends by it. (both sites hosted on the same server)
Check this one out: The only problem with fasterfox is that it is available at firefox 2.0 version only.
Does this really affect the SERP ranking of a site, if the speed is below 50 out of 100 ? I have an average of 40 to 50 for my sites.