[theme-reviewers] Proposal for a new guideline and plugin function

[Emil Uzelac]

It would be, no doubt about it, but it's not likely I'm afraid. If you're
just a user give CloudFlare a try.

Emil

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 9:47 AM, Robb Shecter <robb at weblaws.org> wrote:

>  Hey Emil,
>
> Thanks for the reply. Your first first link highlights the fact that so
> many of these factors are under the control of the theme designer, and are
> independent of the hosting set up.
>
> I'm not a theme designer at all, FWIW.
>
> But I'd love to see a "Client-side YSlow Grade" on each theme's listing -
> it'd make level playing field and encourage healthy competition. It'd
> reward developers like yourself who invest resources in improving quality.
> AND, it'd result in faster, better Wordpress sites out there in the wild.
>
>
> On Tuesday, April 24, 2012 at 7:39 AM, Emil Uzelac wrote:
>
> Without CDN or even a plugin
> http://gtmetrix.com/reports/themeid.com/Y3UXQiTk and this is what I have
> as far as the tutorial http://themeid.com/how-to-speed-up-wordpress-sites/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.
>
> BTW I did try combining Cloud Flare with one of the caching plugins and
> the results were actually lower.
>
> Also if you're with DreamHost you'll have this in too
> http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Page_Speed_Optimization
>
> Emil
>
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 9:28 AM, Robb Shecter <robb at weblaws.org> wrote:
>
>
>
> On Tuesday, April 24, 2012 at 6:49 AM, Doug Stewart wrote:
>
> Robb, Chip:
> Your post gives the game away. While there may be 47 HTTP requests
> generated by the News theme, as you pointed out, 36(!) of those are
> for images. One of your commenters suggested serving static content
> from a subdomain or a CDN which would highly benefit your load times.
>
> 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.
>
> It turns out that this setup is *not* reliable; in fact, it could lock you
> out of your server.
>
> 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.
>
>
> Speed and performance optimization is a complex problem that has no
> specific set of solutions and said solutions can vary greatly based
> upon your hosting situation.
>
> 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.
>
> 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 cnn.com, but well enough for
> small traffic and the occasional link from Hacker News.
>
> And so, I feel like this might not be the case, after my experiences this
> weekend.
>
> Robb
>
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