Monthly Archives: April 2008

Speedtest 4: Are you feeling social today?

This time I have decided to speedtest social plugins.. you know, the ones that lists small icons for  you to bookmark your post or page on different social websites.
I quickly found out that there are quite alot of these plugins. Most of them just inserts a list of icons at the bottom of your post or [...]

Speedtest 3: flickr vs Media Gallery

I just did a quick speedtest between inserting a photo from flickr vs using a photo uploaded to the local WP Media Gallery.
This is the results:
Photo from flickr
Average loading time: 1.32s
Photo from Media Library
Average loading time: 1.39s
Not much difference there. The test was done on a fresh install of Wordpress with no plugins installed. Firefox [...]

Speedtest 2: Google Analytics plugins

This is the second speedtest of the three Google Analytics plugins I initially tested here. The reason I decided to test again is because the WP Google Analytics plugin har just been updated to a newer version.
This test was done on a slower internet access than the first one, so it’s no use comparing the [...]

Speedtest: Google Analytics plugins

I have just tested 3 different Google Analytics plugins for WordPress. The purpose of the test: To see which plugins had the lowest overhead. The plugins tested:

Google Analyticator 2.12
Google Analytics for Wordpress 2.5.3
WP Google Analytics 1.0.0

The test was done on a fresh install of WordPress, with the default theme and on the index page. I [...]