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.
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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.
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. Here are the results:
| Without PHP Speedy | 1.12s |
| With PHP Speedy at default settings | 1.19s |
| With PHP Speedy, gzip page on, and footer text/image off | 0.97s |
As you can see the default settings didn’t work too well with me. But then again. I only have a small css file, and no javascript. Given a “heavier” site I think the default settings would work better. But as you see when I tweaked to settings a bit you see the plugin doing it’s job! Well done!
This time I decided to check out the different contact forms plugins for WordPress. Some of them are just simple contact forms where you have no options for customization, and others lets you build your own forms from scratch.
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Speed up your postview using paginated comments
If you have a post with a lot of comments, surely it must be some speed gain from just showing, say ten at the time? To test this I installed the Paginated Comments plugin by James Maurer and created a test post with 12 comments. I configured the plugin to show only 10 comments (this is in fact the default setting), and started testing.