{"id":1079,"date":"2008-03-28T23:39:28","date_gmt":"2008-03-28T23:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjones.com\/2008\/03\/28\/speed-or-lack-off\/"},"modified":"2008-03-28T23:39:28","modified_gmt":"2008-03-28T23:39:28","slug":"speed-or-lack-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=1079","title":{"rendered":"Speed or lack off :-("},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh dear whilst trying to increase the display speed of this site by eliminating all the external RSS calls to <a href=\"http:\/\/friendfeed.com\">Friend Feed<\/a> and Profilactic and then running <a href=\"http:\/\/www.websiteoptimization.com\/\">a speed test <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The test came up with:-<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <span class=\"congratsback\">TOTAL_HTML<\/span> &#8211; <span class=\"congrats\">Congratulations<\/span>, the total number of HTML files on this page  \t\t\t\t(including the main HTML file) is 2 which most browsers can  \t\t\t\tmultithread. Minimizing HTTP requests is key for web site  \t\t\t\toptimization.<\/li>\n<li> <span class=\"warningback\">TOTAL_OBJECTS<\/span> &#8211; <span class=\"warning\">Warning!<\/span>  The total number of objects on this  \t\t\t\tpage is 56  &#8211; consider reducing this to a more  \t\t\t\treasonable number. Combine, refine, and optimize your external  \t\t\t\tobjects. Replace graphic rollovers with CSS rollovers to speed  \t\t\t\tdisplay and minimize HTTP requests.<\/li>\n<li> <span class=\"warningback\">TOTAL_IMAGES<\/span> &#8211; <span class=\"warning\">Warning!<\/span> The total number of images on this page  \t\tis 39 , consider reducing this to a more reasonable  \t\tnumber. Combine, refine, and optimize your graphics. Replace graphic  \t\trollovers with CSS rollovers to speed display and minimize HTTP  \t\trequests.<\/li>\n<li> <span class=\"cautionback\">TOTAL_CSS<\/span> &#8211; <span class=\"caution\">Caution.<\/span> The total number of external CSS files on  \t\tthis page is 5 , consider reducing this to a more  \t\treasonable number. Combine, refine, and optimize your external CSS  \t\tfiles. Ideally you should have one (or even embed CSS for  \t\thigh-traffic pages) on your pages.<\/li>\n<li> <span class=\"warningback\">TOTAL_SIZE<\/span> &#8211; <span class=\"warning\">Warning!<\/span> The total size of this page is  \t\t<strong>1721970<\/strong>  bytes, which will load in  353.68  seconds  \t\ton a 56Kbps modem.  Consider reducing total page size to less than  \t\t30K to achieve sub eight second response times on 56K connections.  \t\tPages over 100K exceed most attention thresholds at 56Kbps, even with  \t\tfeedback. Consider <a href=\"http:\/\/www.websiteoptimization.com\/contact\/\">contacting us<\/a> about our optimization services.<\/li>\n<li> <span class=\"warningback\">TOTAL_SCRIPT<\/span> &#8211; <span class=\"warning\">Warning!<\/span> The total number of external script  \t\tfiles on this page is 9 , consider reducing this to a  \t\tmore reasonable number. Combine, refine, and optimize your external  \t\tscript files. Ideally you should have one (or even embed scripts for  \t\thigh-traffic pages) on your pages.<\/li>\n<li> <span class=\"cautionback\">HTML_SIZE<\/span> &#8211; <span class=\"caution\">Caution.<\/span> The total size of this HTML file is  \t\t66227  bytes, which is above 20K but below 100K. With a 10K ad  \t\tand a logo this means that your page will load in over 8.6 seconds.  \t\tConsider optimizing your HTML and eliminating unnecessary features.  \t\tTo give your users feedback, consider layering your page or using  \t\tpositioning to display useful content within the first two seconds.<\/li>\n<li> <span class=\"warningback\">IMAGES_SIZE<\/span> &#8211; <span class=\"warning\">Warning!<\/span> The total size of your images is  \t\t1519785  bytes, which is over 30K. Consider optimizing your  \t\timages for size, combining them, and replacing graphic rollovers with  \t\tCSS.<\/li>\n<li> <span class=\"warningback\">SCRIPT_SIZE<\/span> &#8211; <span class=\"warning\">Warning!<\/span> The total size of external your scripts is  \t\t120042  bytes, which is over 8K. Consider optimizing your  \t\tscripts for size, combining them, and using compression where  \t\tappropriate for any scripts placed in the HEAD of your documents.<\/li>\n<li> <span class=\"warningback\">CSS_SIZE<\/span> &#8211; <span class=\"warning\">Warning!<\/span> The total size of your external CSS is  \t\t12398  bytes, which is over 8K. Consider optimizing your CSS for  \t\tsize by eliminating whitespace, using shorthand notation, and  \t\tcombining multiple CSS files where appropriate.<\/li>\n<li> <span class=\"congratsback\">MULTIM_SIZE<\/span> &#8211; <span class=\"congrats\">Congratulations<\/span>, the total size of all your  \t\texternal multimedia files is 0  bytes, which is less than  \t\t4K.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!-- START ANALYSIS AND SUGGESTIONS   ------------------------------------------------> Guess I will be heading over to Elance to get a coder to tidy it up for me for a tenner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh dear whilst trying to increase the display speed of this site by eliminating all the external RSS calls to Friend Feed and Profilactic and then running a speed test The test came up with:- TOTAL_HTML &#8211; Congratulations, the total number of HTML files on this page (including the main HTML file) is 2 which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[409],"class_list":["post-1079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-website-speed-optimisation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}