Nobody Likes A Slow Loading Blog
internet February 14th, 2007As a blogger, it is important that you be aware of your blogs load time when adding plugins to your blog. I have come across some very slow loading blogs lately, and I suspect it is due to plugin bloat. If you are hosted on a smaller web host, they may not have adequate database resources. Blogs that are hosted on these smaller web hosting services will suffer in performance when loaded with too many poorly written plugins. If you want to check if you have plugin bloat, add the following code to your footer (or wherever you want it displayed) and it will show you how many queries it takes for the page to load. A query is a single hit to the database to retrieve information. The more queries there are, the longer it will take for your page to load.
- Note, the code is for WordPress bloggers
As a reference, Hate The Grind takes 18 queries to load up the main blog page but if you have a lot of plugins loaded, the number can be as high as 80 - 100 queries. Try removing one plugin at a time to see how efficient they are and consider replacing the plugin with a different one that does the same thing–but with less queries.
Blog Load Time
Another thing to look into is how long it takes for your blog to load. There are tools out there that will check but many of them are inaccurate because they do not take into account more advanced code on the page–they simply ignore it and load the html. One tool that does load up everything including images, ajax/javascript code, flash, etc is Web Wait. If you click on the link there, it will load up my blog. According to Web Wait, my blog takes on average about 1.56 seconds to load. Go try your blog to see how it is performing.
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February 15th, 2007 at 3:19 pm
it depends also where you coming from cuz this blog is not less then 3 seconds when i am trying it many times. my website takes more then 25 seconds to load!!!
February 17th, 2007 at 11:43 am
Yes I would imagine location, and time of day would have an effect on the page load time as well. I’ve also started to include more images in my blog posts and that will start to slow down load times as well.
February 26th, 2007 at 9:44 am
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