[Plugin: W3 Total Cache] What’s the trick?
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I’ve been playing with this and some other “performance improving” plugins, as well as some non-plugin techniques to try to improve loading speed on several sites and frankly, I’m stumped.
– Yslow gives me a grade of C or D on every site no matter what I do – nothing better. But regardless of what Yslow says, the speed test tools I’m using say that my load speed is okay. So, how important is what Yslow says, really?
– iwebtool.com always gives a decent number under 2 seconds, so does site-perf.com no matter what performance improvers I’ve got installed, or not.
– The php call in my footer (<?php echo get_num_queries(); ?> queries in <?php timer_stop(1); ?> seconds.) consistently says its under 1/2 second regardless of setup.
– On one pretty bare-bones site, Websiteoptimization.com shows *very* high numbers that can’t possibly be correct. I can watch my site come up much more quickly than it says it does. On another site with more content, more plugins, external calls, etc. it gives me a great report.So, what tool do y’all use to test speed? I’m skeptical that ANY of them are giving me accurate numbers, because they’re all so different.
On one site, W3 seems to have made some significant improvements – the same configurations on another site seems not to get anything.
So what’s the trick? What am I missing?
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