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1. PBP_Editor
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   The Palm Beach Post newspaper needed a new entertainment website. I was the project manager and technical lead on the implementation of the site.

   http://www.pbpulse.com/

   We have over 6,000 articles on the site. PBPulse has over 220,000 visitors and 1.5+ million page views per month.

   Using WordPress as a a full site CMS we were able to demonstrate the capacity of WordPress to be much more than a blogging platform.

2. Steffen Jørgensen
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   One word: Optimize!

   The site is dead slow.
   It has:

   • 46 JavaScript files (15 in the header).
   • 14 CSS files
   • 4 inline stylesheets
   • 28 DNS lookups (transferring content from 28 different domains)

   Have a close look at ySlow from Yahoo

3. PBP_Editor
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Thanks for the feedback. I will take a look and see what I can remove or consolidate. Unfortunately some of the JavaScript being employed is from third party sources like the Brightcove video and the photo includes - so I am stuck with those.

4. PBP_Editor
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   We are having some issues with our servers as well - much of the performance drag is being caused by these issues.

   http://status.rackspacecloud.com/

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