Not sure if it was mentioned but have any of you seen this PageSpeed site?

http://pagespeed.googlelabs.com/

 

Hey that's a neat site!  I have no idea how to do the things it suggests lol so I have to do some researching next.  That's awesome it spits out all those suggestions with the priority ratings.   :)  

http://pagespeed.googlelabs.com/

Untemplater said:

JT_McGee said:

It's not caching or your hosting; it's the size of your site.  I downloaded your index page to my desktop and it was >3.6mb, which is a TON of data.

Hi JT.  How did you do that?  I want to do the same test for my site as it's had bad speed grades too.  I tried googling instructions but couldn't find a good link.  Thanks!

 

 

Right click on your site to "save page as."  Then go to where you saved it, highlight the index html file and the file folder that downloaded with it, and right click.  Go all the way down to "properties" and it will show you the size of the files.  Your site is 2.75mb, which is pretty big.  My site is 300kb, and I thought that was huge until I saw this thread. 

Wow that's quite a big difference in size to yours.  Thanks for the instructions JT!

Specify image dimensions is also an easy one to fix on your own.  Use Firefox Page Speed plugin, and it will tell you which images do not have dimensions specified (i.e. width=400px).  It will also tell you what the dimensions are.  You just need to find where the image is called in the HTML (i.e. in a post or page), and add the dimensions in.

Finally, there are several great plugins that can combine your css and move your javascript.  First, check out WP-Minify, which will combine and compress your javascript and css files.  I've also heard of WP JS Test (FYI I haven't tried it yet), but it basically calls on Google's servers to load javascript libraries rather than your own.  As a result you distribute across hostnames and Google has fast servers.

Try these out and let us know.

They told me that there is nothing else on my end.  Any idea how I can fix these problem areas.  I'm still getting D and F grades for page speed :(

JT_McGee said:

It's not caching or your hosting; it's the size of your site.  I downloaded your index page to my desktop and it was >3.6mb, which is a TON of data.

Hi JT.  How did you do that?  I want to do the same test for my site as it's had bad speed grades too.  I tried googling instructions but couldn't find a good link.  Thanks!

Right click on your site to "save page as."  Then go to where you saved it, highlight the index html file and the file folder that downloaded with it, and right click.  Go all the way down to "properties" and it will show you the size of the files.  Your site is 2.75mb, which is pretty big.  My site is 300kb, and I thought that was huge until I saw this thread. 

It's not caching or your hosting; it's the size of your site.  I downloaded your index page to my desktop and it was >3.6mb, which is a TON of data.

Hi JT.  How did you do that?  I want to do the same test for my site as it's had bad speed grades too.  I tried googling instructions but couldn't find a good link.  Thanks!

Well, MaxCDN has been extremely helpful and they have pointed out some issues:

My /wp-content/ folder wasn't being cached

Browser cache wasn't enabled

They recommended I use gzip compression (Does anyone know how to set this up?)

I'll try some of these changes out and see what happens.  It looks like I'm going to have to get down dirty with the code :/

Does anyone know of a coder or programmer who can help me out with fixing my issues?  I'm willing to pay too.

You should contact Jesse from PF Firewall - he's helped a few Yakezie members out of a jam. http://www.pffirewall.com/contact/

My /wp-content/ folder wasn't being cached

Browser cache wasn't enabled

They recommended I use gzip compression (Does anyone know how to set this up?)

I'll try some of these changes out and see what happens.  It looks like I'm going to have to get down dirty with the code :/

Does anyone know of a coder or programmer who can help me out with fixing my issues?  I'm willing to pay too.

this thread is perfect example of "selflessly helping others"! Jon do let us know the outcome of your talk

 

Will do!  Yes, great example of what makes Yakezie GREAT.