Wow I have a lot of plugins that are out of date… I should really fix that.

In my attempts to fix my theme, it seems that I have destroyed it.  As you can see the font sizes are way off, and really I am unsure why… seeing that I didn’t change any of the CSS on the page.  Guess this is more motivation to get the new theme out, though I am really not sure its ready for production yet since I just started creating it about 3 days ago, and really only spent about 15 minutes working on it.

So I think that this weekend I am finally going to get my act together and upgrade my Wordpress install, along with putting out my newer design.  I am hoping that the new things I am putting in place will help boost my Pagerank and allow for better SEO.  I have noticed that a lot of people are coming to my site as of late all because of a post I made a while back about good old Jessica Biel.  So to keep up with that I figured I would post another to make everyone happy.

And I am really tired.  I almost want to make some coffee… but then I will be up forever, unless I start drinking when I get home …. hmm ideas.  Anyways this is a temp theme until I get around to creating a new one myself.

I have been in a constant battle with Vanessa about who’s site loads faster than who’s. The testing I have done was via websiteoptimization.com, and from their results I was smoking her on the speed of loading. I then decided to see how much I could optimize mine, and here are the results.

Orignal

Total HTTP Requests: 6
Total Size: 36274 bytes
14.4K - 29.31 seconds
28.8K - 15.26 seconds
33.6K - 13.25 seconds
56K - 8.43 seconds
ISDN 128K - 3.41 seconds
T1 1.44Mbps - 1.39 seconds

Optimized Site

Total HTTP Requests: 4
Total Size: 21452 bytes
Load Speed
14.4K - 17.43 seconds
28.8K - 9.11 seconds
33.6K - 7.93 seconds
56K - 5.08 seconds
ISDN 128K - 2.11 seconds
T1 1.44Mbps - 0.91 seconds

As you can see by removing some excess code, and some unused plugins it improved the loading of the site and the over all size as well. I am sure there is still much more that I can do to get a faster response, but this is good enough for now…. And should keep Vanessa at bay.

So I just made the upgrade to Wordpress 2.2 … So far everything looks like it is working just fine. I have also disabled a lot of the plugins that were not really doing a whole lot, except for using up resources.