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Comment on It’s All About The Lobster! by Shopping Galore UK

Shopping Galore UK — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:24:00 +0000

Hi Chris, I just found your blog and I’m already hooked! I’m rather new in AM business but there are so many things mentioned in your thoughts, I have already came across during last few months since starting blogging…

Comment on Go Faster Stripes For Websites by Trevor Edwards

Trevor Edwards — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 01:51:00 +0000

css sprites, get your designer to make the sprite him sself and safe it as a transparent png and a psd incase you ever need to mess about.
tell him to use spritecow.com to figure out the position of the images. this will reduce the queries. eh what else oh yeh, if you have a mac use the following free programs to optimise your images. I personally think are much better then smush it - http://pngmini.com/ & http://imageoptim.pornel.net/

Comment on Go Faster Stripes For Websites by Chris E Frost

Chris E Frost — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:20:00 +0000

Chris

I still see odd fluctuations every now and then when getting my Google score, but one in the 90′s is pretty good in my opinion.

As for the WP-Optimize plugin, all this does is tidy up your databases – removes old revisions of posts and drafts, so it probably wont have a huge impact, just means your database backend is a bit leaner & meaner. It shouldn’t have any impact on W3TC or any other plugins.

I’ve not yet tried the latest W3TC with Cloudflare options yet. May get round to it one day… just not yet. I will probably wait until March/April before I slip it on to http://www.XmasElves.co.uk

Good to know some of these have helped anyway :D

Comment on Go Faster Stripes For Websites by Chris King

Chris King — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 18:20:00 +0000

I thought I’d share what I’ve done to improve my site performance..I seem to have fluked a 90′s score on Google PageSpeed. I should really give myself a pat on the back as this is a whole new world.

Start with a question for Chris F – have you tried using CloudFlare with the latest W3 Total Cache v 0.9.2.4? Within W3 TC there is an option to integrate CloudFlare into it..have you tried with this version? I’m interested in getting more improvements and the security features of CloudFlare, but don’t want to rock the boat with the improvements so far.

So I’ve been having challenges for a while with page speed. My web hosts Tagadab (very helpful and great support) recommended I implemented W3 Total Cache.

1. W3 Total Cache – implemented and got some immediate improvements.

2. WP Smush it – implemented on the back of suggestion (cheers Chris F) and got approx. 15% image weight savings. This was good considering I’ve been careful with image size.

A few days ago I noticed that my improvements were going backwards. Today, I checked back on this post and found the Google Page Speed – and got 72%. The issue was that I had not implemented the ‘Browser Caching’ W3 Total Cache settings properly.

So I’ve done that and now in the 90′s on Google Page Speed. I’ve also used websiteoptimization .com which still shows loads of Reds..but I don’t really understand what it’s on about..so I’ll ignore it for now.

As well as Cloudflare, has anyone here implemented WP-Optimize with W3 Total Cache? Again would like to do more improvements but don’t want to ruin any of the good work so far.

Being non-technical I’m amazed at the amount of support out there, including this post from Chris F – Cheers.

Comment on Go Faster Stripes For Websites by Deepak Tailor

Deepak Tailor — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 12:22:00 +0000

Great article, thanks for the sites

Comment on Go Faster Stripes For Websites by Neil McDermott

Neil McDermott — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:11:00 +0000

Nice one cheers. Will take a look.

Comment on Go Faster Stripes For Websites by Chris E Frost

Chris E Frost — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 15:30:00 +0000

Thanks mate. I’ve seen all round improvements to be honest, many of which I can say are most probably down to CloudFlare.

They’ve cut my bandwidth down by 48% and therefore reduced server load, meaning increased speed and during an outage, my sites remained “online”. I’m still using the free service with about 15 website covered at the moment, and its real simple to switch back if you need to for whatever reason.

Comment on Go Faster Stripes For Websites by Neil McDermott

Neil McDermott — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 15:13:00 +0000

Nice post. Does CloudFlare actually work?

Have you seen decent page speed improvements?

Comment on Nick Robertson’s ASOS Clanger by Uk Affiliate Marketing | Internet Marketing Blog - Free IM Tips and free Resources

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 09:04:30 +0000

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Comment on Schools Open & Christmas Begins by Chris E Frost

Chris E Frost — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 10:44:00 +0000

Great to now have @Prezzybox onboard too!