I was trying to figure out a way to optimize my blog, when I remembered I had tried a plugin a while back that worked well. I couldn’t remember it’s name so I had to spend some time googling, but eventually found it again: PHP Speedy.
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Read MoreAfter 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!
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.