Arch Linux Installation log pt. 3 – Getting online

October 7, 2009  |  Arch Linux  |  No Comments

After the base Arch Linux system is installed, the next logical step is to get online.

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NextGEN Gallery: Overhead and memory usage

October 7, 2009  |  Wordpress  |  No Comments

NextGEN Gallery is a popular gallery plugin for Wordpress, but I noticed that it added quite a bit of overhead to my site, so I decided to investigate.

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Optimizing Wordpress using PHP Speedy

Optimizing Wordpress using PHP Speedy

October 6, 2009  |  Wordpress  |  No Comments

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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Google Analytics vs Piwik vs Mint

October 6, 2009  |  Wordpress  |  No Comments

Updated october 7, 2009: Decided to throw Mint into the mix as well

Google Analytics must be the most popular analytics tool for webmasters, but I have recently come across an open source alternative called Piwik. Since I just posted a benchmark test of Google Analytics wordpress plugins, I thought I’d compare the “winner” of those (in terms of overhead) with Piwik (using theĀ  WP-Piwik plugin) and Mint.

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Benchmarking Wordpress: Google Analytics plugins

October 4, 2009  |  Wordpress  |  No Comments

Updated october 8, 2009: Added information about memory overhead

I have decided to benchmark Google Analytics plugins for Wordpress. I have done this test once before, but I decided (perhaps wrongly) to delete all my old posts when I reinstalled and re-themed my blog, and since all the plugins have been updated since then it will be interesting to do the test again.

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