<div class="gmail_extra">Without CDN or even a plugin <a href="http://gtmetrix.com/reports/themeid.com/Y3UXQiTk">http://gtmetrix.com/reports/themeid.com/Y3UXQiTk</a> and this is what I have as far as the tutorial <a href="http://themeid.com/how-to-speed-up-wordpress-sites/">http://themeid.com/how-to-speed-up-wordpress-sites/</a> almost year old, but it serves the purpose. Speed is always one of the priorities when it comes to any site development and I fully agree with you @Robb. This wasn't a promo of mine, just merely pointing out to some alternatives.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">BTW I did try combining Cloud Flare with one of the caching plugins and the results were actually lower.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">
Also if you're with DreamHost you'll have this in too <a href="http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Page_Speed_Optimization">http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Page_Speed_Optimization</a></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">
Emil<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 9:28 AM, Robb Shecter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robb@weblaws.org" target="_blank">robb@weblaws.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<span style="color:rgb(160,160,168)">On Tuesday, April 24, 2012 at 6:49 AM, Doug Stewart wrote:</span></div>
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<span><div><div><div>Robb, Chip:</div><div>Your post gives the game away. While there may be 47 HTTP requests</div><div>generated by the News theme, as you pointed out, 36(!) of those are</div><div>for images. One of your commenters suggested serving static content</div>
<div>from a subdomain or a CDN which would highly benefit your load times.</div></div></div></span></blockquote></div><div>Yes, I guess so ... but now talking about a CDN means we're talking about well funded, pro users, and that's not really my concern here. I'm thinking about both novice as well as technically savvy users who are simply starting a new blog as I was. I just wanted a reliable WP install, and I thought I was being conservative: installing only WP, a featured theme from the Admin panel, and a single plugin, Akismet.</div>
<div><br></div><div>It turns out that this setup is *not* reliable; in fact, it could lock you out of your server. </div><div><br></div><div>Also, BTW, I disagree about a CDN being the best solution for the 36 images. The real solution is to reduce these external calls with sprites, or eliminate the images altogether w/ HTML5+CSS3. And both of those solutions are only in the hands of the theme designer.</div>
<div class="im"><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="border-left-style:solid;border-width:1px;margin-left:0px;padding-left:10px"><span><div><div><div><br></div><div>Speed and performance optimization is a complex problem that has no</div>
<div>specific set of solutions and said solutions can vary greatly based</div><div>upon your hosting situation.</div><div><br></div></div></div></span></blockquote></div><div>We have to agree to disagree. A theme that needs 46 resources ... before any for the actual content(!) is too expensive and slow to run anywhere. I wouldn't want to pay a CDN to host these files.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I guess that for me, I'd sum it up like this: Wordpress is making a promise to users. That, out of the box, it'll work well. Not well enough to handle true slashdotting or front page of <a href="http://cnn.com" target="_blank">cnn.com</a>, but well enough for small traffic and the occasional link from Hacker News.</div>
<div><br></div><div>And so, I feel like this might not be the case, after my experiences this weekend.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div> </div><div>Robb</div>
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