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[pmeenan]

(06-26-2010 12:50 AM)DJMorrisInc Wrote:  Oops, you are right....I re-did the AFTER using the IE 8 for both and edited the comparison of the two above, but it left me additional mountains to climb....I am also going to try to make MaxCDN work for me again....I talked to technical support and the problem was coming from Host Gator when they created a CNAME for me.

Here are the updated test results: BEFORE adding PHP Speedy - http://www.webpagetest.org/result/100624_G00/ ...and AFTER - http://www.webpagetest.org/result/100625_H75/

I think you have taken care of most of the easier things (besides getting MaxCDN to work). I don't know if I'd bother with minifying either the css or js but if it's not breaking anything then it's fine to leave it on.

Improvements from this point out may be outside of what you can do from within Wordpress:

- You have quite a bit of javascript loading. If you could load the javascript asynchronously or at the bottom of the page it would help the user experience but I don't think wordpress gives you that level of control

- You could sprite some of the images/logos together but again, that may not be something that is easy to do within wordpress.

- If you're not already using the asyc method for google analytics you could switch that over which may help a bit: http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/do...cking.html


Try not to compare performance based purely on the grades. They will help you make a given site faster but two different sites may get the same grades and have completely different performance. They'r more of a starting point on the basics - the waterfall is really where you should spend your time once you get used to reading them.