Tag Archives: wordpress

Speedtest 5: Contact Forms

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.
The plugins where you could build your own forms all came with a default form, with the [...]

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 [...]