New blog design
| blogging, wordpressWell, it’s still really the Networker-10 theme underneath, but I’ve stripped away a lot of the CSS that made my site look heavy, moved things around, added some quick links along the top, and finally got around to making sure wp-cache worked. The site should be nice and zippy again. Check it out at sachachua.com!
4 comments
Simon Law
2008-05-26T03:31:46ZI'm not really sure it's nice and zippy. Firebug reports at least 15 seconds before Wordpress responds to the first request.
Sacha Chua
2008-05-26T11:18:18ZHmm, the initial redirect from sachachua.com to sachachua.com/wp takes a bit of a while. Odd...
rjh
2008-05-26T12:06:52ZAlso, check with "Yslow". It has various nags about things to improve. (It's somewhere on Yahoo.)
One interesting quirk is that I tried disabling your Javascript (NoScript) and it got a lot faster to load. There is nothing noticeably broken, so you get taken off the whitelist. Whatever dependency you used to have is gone. I prefer this. Requiring JS is hostile to the disabled.
Update: oops. Looks like JS is needed to comment.
Sacha Chua
2008-05-26T13:49:01ZI noticed that AJAX comments was slow, so I've disabled the plugin. =) Things should be marginally better now. Also, I'm continuing to tweak my Apache and MySQL settings. Who knew that 256MB could go so fast?