Some pointer towards my sports blog

Discussion in 'Websites' started by xecutable, Jan 15, 2010.

  1. #1
    Hi,

    I am currently maintaining a sports blog and have spent the last few days on optimizing image sizes,compression, css and js minifying to improve the loading time.

    I have noticed a significant traffic increase in the past few days, which is great, although I am not sure why.

    A little tip on whether it opened reasonably fast would be appreciated as well as any other comments you have.

    Thanks!
     
    xecutable, Jan 15, 2010 IP
  2. adios

    adios Peon

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    nice site guys... i like it
     
    adios, Jan 15, 2010 IP
  3. t2000q

    t2000q Prominent Member

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    nice blog, it is fast here on my side
     
    t2000q, Jan 15, 2010 IP
  4. xecutable

    xecutable Greenhorn

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    I open it fast as well, it's Google WebMasters that made me anxious reporting loading time of 6.6sec and "being slower than 83% of the rest of the world" but from I see that tool is in experimental mode and the accuracy is defined as "low"
     
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    Loads rather slow. You may want to optimize the load speed, but the design looks really nice. The header and the footer look very sleek. Good job with the favicon.
     
    kaioken89, Jan 15, 2010 IP
  6. xecutable

    xecutable Greenhorn

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    I have been doing this for the past week. According to Google WM dated Jan 15 the loading speed is 1.2sec, but I catch sometimes when the host is overloaded and the loading is horrible.

    The firebug addon extensions report only 2 yellow pointers left, like remove unused CSS lines, but it's not taking into account that on wordpress some of the css lines are for pages, and it can't see them since the front page is only posts.

    Anyways I think that in certain hours the problems is my host HostRocket. Anyone had any experience with them?
     
    xecutable, Jan 18, 2010 IP