Start Render Time

[jarrod1937]

(06-25-2010 07:40 PM)DJMorrisInc Wrote:  

(06-25-2010 08:27 AM)pmeenan Wrote:  Fundamentally you need to get those css and js files combined into one of each to get your start render times. W3 is one solution that will do it for you and there may be others but that's really the only optimization you should be looking at initially. You can try looking for another plugin that does the combining but still plays nice with hypercache - maybe PHPSpeedy: http://aciddrop.com/2008/12/15/php-speed...d-upgrade/

PHP Speedy is installed now and it interfered with one plug-in/widget that I quickly removed, and it seemed to fill some big gaps in my test results....BEFORE adding PHP Speedy - http://www.webpagetest.org/result/100624_G00/ ...and AFTER - http://www.webpagetest.org/result/100625_GV2/ . On the PHP Speedy setting I have minify set for pages and CSS....should I also check 'minify javascript'?

I liked the response as to the simplicity of a wordpress plug-in and it was easy to implement, but why is my load time slightly slower and shouldn't that of improved? Most sites I have seen with similar scores have load times of only 1 to 3 seconds. Any other great bits of advice ? This forum and site rocks, and thanks for all the great advice and helping me get such better test results!

Watch out there. Your before is using IE8 and your after is using IE7. It tells you this at the top, but you can also tell because your before is handling requests with 4 simultaneous connections, whereas your after is handling only 2. This can highly skew your results.