Perhaps a better idea would be to start at sunset and then still be around to witness sunrise!!

R

I’m game. As long as I don’t have to go to work.

One day…
I would really like to share a sunrise, a cigar and “wee dram” with ya. (just for starters!!). An yes and then there’s the …rley!!

R

PS. Although nothing is for free in PNG… the unexpected always abounds!!

Your advice is free. I don’t mind getting it here.

We’re mainly talking here about CSS compression. So the size of the files sent from the host to the client can be reduced and thus increase performance.

A great site to check what benefits you might gain from turning compression on is: http://www.port80software.com/

Myself, I have enabled compression within my PHP configuration. In your case WP Super Cache has a little box you can tick about half way down that turns it on and off. It all depends on your host as to whether you can turn it on or not. Bluehost (my host) and Hostmonster (your host) are both owned and run by Matt Heaton – I’m assuming therefore that you will be able to take advantage of it within the WP Super Cache config.

Try it and worst case is it doesn;t work and you turn it off.

R

PS. This old post here’s turning out to be a bit of a WP forum.

I’m going to dump Google Analytics.

You’re on the ball old mate!

I recently tested a plugin DB Cache Reloaded and compared it against WP Super Cache. Found DB Cache Reloaded to give me better cache hits and therefore better CPU performance. Another thing I do is I run compression which has also had a positive impact on faster load times. Having said that WP Super Cache is an excellent plugin and does the job well for most.

Regarding stats – I traditionally ran the “wordpress.com stats” plugin for data collection. Together with a couple of extra plugins was able to extract things like number of visitors and most viewed posts. I recently ditched these stats plugins and now just run Google Analytics.

Most bloggers go nuts over stats and can literally spend hours just sitting in front of there screen watching counts go up (or not). I have changed my tack on this and no longer care. In the end I know that that if my site is SEO friendly and I produce regular and quality content the visitors will follow. Who gives a shit if its 100 a day or a thousand?

So… right now I just run Google Analytics for stats collection and if I ever get the urge the have a peek at the who and where from of my visitors I can go the GA site and have a squizz.

My suggestion MadDog that if your host already provides soemthing and this is sufficient for you then don’t bother about others. Like you said the more that loads up on a page the slower the load times.

Cheers bro,

R

PS. Sure looking forward to that “wee dram” we discussed last week. I must make it up to Madang soon.

Hey, I just added WP-SUPERCACHE and got rid of the Feedjit and ClustrMaps widgets and my site loads much faster. Now I’m wondering about IShare and Google Analytics. I see the load process stumble on ishare quite often and always on Google Analytics. Since my web host gives me detailed visitor statistics, I’m wondering if there is any other aspect of Google Analytics that’s really useful enough to allow it to keep on slowing down my site load. I can’t see that it does anything besides compiling the visitor data, so If I’m getting that from my web host, what do I need it for? Also, I have no idea how to find out if anybody is actually using IShare. I’m thinking about dumping both of the plugins.

Any ideas about that?

In relation to your concern for tight security around Wordpress noticed the following plugin recently made available and one you might like to take a closer look at:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/securepress-plugin/

CHeers,

R