I was trying different kinds of image related plugins, and decided to check how much overhead each one of them have when just activated. What I did was upload some plugins, and before I timed it I just activated it. Nothing more. The plugins are activated but not configured or in use.
These are the plugins [...]
Author Archives: bnry
Plugin overhead when not in use
May 17, 2008 – 11:38 pm
CSS Performance
May 15, 2008 – 9:31 am
Just read an interesting article over at jpsykes.com; testing css performance (pt 2). His conclusion is that using child selectors are slower than using direct class name declarations (in some browsers).
Head on over and read for yourself!
NOTE! Just noticed that part 3 of his testing css article series is out. Check it out.
Margin error in Firefox?
May 14, 2008 – 4:34 pm
I’m currently working on a webdesign with a centered div, and what’s really irritating is that in Firefox the entire div moves when the content goes below the screen length. Firefox shows the scrollbar and moves the entire page abit to the left. Why does it do that?? IE doesn’t! I have tried with the [...]
Script compression pt.2 - Enter PHP Speedy
May 13, 2008 – 2:07 pm
After the failure of getting Script Compressor to work, I decided to test out PHP Speedy by Leon Chevalier. A plugin that is suppose to to the same thing as Script Compressor.
There is one big difference though.. PHP Speedy works!
I timed the average load time of my blog page with, and without, the plugin activated. [...]
Script Compressor plugin not working?
May 13, 2008 – 1:11 pm
I downloaded and installed the Script Compressor plugin with the intent to check how much faster the blog would load with scripts compressed. I don’t have much javascript on my site, so I thought I would start out with just the css compression.
But I can’t see any difference in the css file. Isn’t it working? [...]