Web Page Speed Report
URL: http://www.labuzzblog.com/
Title: LAbuzzBLOG: Catch the Buzz in LA Today
Date: Report run on Sun Apr 5 20:14:59EDT2009
Diagnosis
Global Statistics
Total HTTP Requests: 43
Total Size: 1811640 bytes
Object Size Totals
Object type Size (bytes) Download @ 56K (seconds) Download @ T1 (seconds)
HTML: 92986 18.73 0.69
HTML Images: 1507730 304.89 12.39
CSS Images: 4345 2.27 1.42
Total Images: 1512075 307.16 13.81
Javascript: 143911 30.48 2.56
CSS: 62668 13.29 1.13
Multimedia: 0 0.00 0.00
Other: 0 0.00 0.00
External Objects
External Object QTY
Total HTML: 1
Total HTML Images: 22
Total CSS Images: 7
Total Images: 29
Total Scripts: 9
Total CSS imports: 4
Total Frames: 0
Total Iframes: 0
Download Times*
Connection Rate Download Time
14.4K 1412.71 seconds
28.8K 710.66 seconds
33.6K 610.36 seconds
56K 369.66 seconds
ISDN 128K 119.17 seconds
T1 1.44Mbps 18.20 seconds
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It’s not the slowest website i’ve seen by a mile, but it’s not super fast either..
Thanksamillion.
We find that the admin panel is super slow to refresh, and the user performance is sluggish. Any thoughts on where to start the debug process?
I must say i find the admin slow to, and i’ve seen quite a few posts about it here (i mean in general).
Unfortunately i think that’s mainly due to all the fancy JQuery menus and such, but unfortunately noone comments on why the admin section needs to be bogged down with it all.
I could be wrong, but i think half the issue is the over use of none essential clutter.
Overall site performance seems to be pretty consistent though for me, dependant on the amount of plugins and queries being run on each page…
The site i linked to has lots of general advice on how to speed page load times, that applies to any website, not just WordPress driven ones.
Run some other sites through the test, slower and faster ones, compare the results and you’ll see where the biggest gains are quite easily…
Have a look at your theme and plugins. Your pages have an awful lot of JavaScript and CSS that has to load on every page – these should be in external files so they can be cached by the browser.
You are also calling JQuery twice, which is not needed and will be slowing the site down.
There are a couple of repeated meta tags too so it really looks like you should be cleaning up your theme.
Thanks to you both for your advice. I’ll chat it over with our webmaster in the morning. Most helpful!
