Comments on: Killing a Giant Lion Turtle with your Site Load Time

By: 15 Ways to Improve Your Site in 5 Minutes

15 Ways to Improve Your Site in 5 Minutes — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:33:41 +0000

[...] Make Your Site Load Faster – Well there are a lot of ways that can be done to make your site load faster. Which might take longer than 5 minutes, but this way takes just 5 minutes. Download the plugin called WP-Super Cache, and upload it. Activate it and change the settings to meet your needs. You will see the difference yourself. Suggested Article: Killing a Giant Lion Turtle with your Site’s Load Time [...]

By: Syed Balkhi

Syed Balkhi — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:41:12 +0000

Yup yup .. a lot of people tend to ignore this aspect by placing a lot of javascripts on their page…

By: Work At Home Ideas

Work At Home Ideas — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:11:59 +0000

Hi Syed,

What a great post! Having a fast loading site or blog is important for getting new readers and keeping old ones. Very useful information indeed.

Peter Lee

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How did I increase my search engine traffic by 258% in less than a month — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:58:45 +0000

[...] Site load time was not the only issue with my previous design. There were a lot more to it that I changed. So hold tight while I cruise you through my journey. [...]

By: Dr. Teeth

Dr. Teeth — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 23:24:45 +0000

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By: zuborg

zuborg — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:05:43 +0000

I would also recommend this online free tool: http://Site-Perf.com/.

It measure loading speed of page and it’s requisites (images/js/css) like browsers do and shows nice detailed chart – so you can easily spot bottlenecks.

Also very useful thing is that this tool is able to verify network quality of your server (packet loss level and ping delays).

By: Martin

Martin — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 11:37:29 +0000

Useful info, but I think you’ve missed one very important optimisation technique.
Many websites use multiple CSS files (and possibly multiple javascript files), with some web applications/packages using 6 or more separate CSS files.
This can significantly slow down the loading time for a website, as the browser needs to make multiple requests to the webserver – one request per file.
Simply combining multiple CSS files into a single CSS file can have a significant impact on the speed at which a website loads.

FYI, Google Chrome has a pretty cool profiling utility that’ll show you the speed at which a website loads, breaking it down to show you the size of each of the components, as well as the speed at which it downloads each file (go to the “Resources” view of the javascript debugger to use this feature in Chrome).

By: Syed Balkhi

Syed Balkhi — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 09:15:28 +0000

Photoshop is definately not the best one. GIMP (a free software) does very good in optimizing images.

By: Free Directories

Free Directories — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 07:00:07 +0000

Do your best to optimize the images. Some use Photoshop, but I prefer Fireworks. It can easily reduce the file sizes of images without any noticeable changes. There are other image editing programs that will help too.

If you have a “regular site,” you may also look into reducing the whitespace in your html files. There used to be a free software title called html compressor that did this. That can shave a little of the page size as well.

By: Syed Balkhi

Syed Balkhi — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:42:09 +0000

yes most should work normal on your site except for wp-cache.