Blog Speed Ahead

Blog Speed Ahead-How to speed up your blog

Back  in the day, when the Internet was a toddler website speed was a big issue. 26.6kbps  was what every site owner tried keep their site speed load times at because everyone was on a dial-up Internet connection. Then by the year 2000, site load times was 28.8kps. Any higher than that a dial up user would have to wait for the page to load.

Depending on their connection which could range from 24kps a really slow connection to the max of 54kbs.

Most people are on some sort of high speed connection now. But I have talk to a handful of people that still have a dial up connection.

These were the good old days. If you wanted a website you had to learn html and create your own site. Web Monkey at that time was my favorite site because they taught how to create static html sites.

Jumping ahead- six years later is when I discovered blogging. I pickup an eBook about setting up an ad sense blog.  The eBook showed how to code in your ad sense publisher number to display publisher ads on posts. That's how I got started working with CSS & PHP codes and blogging with wordpress sites.

Blog Speed

Let's start with plugins for making your blog speed faster
Now I had over 20 plugins installed and running with 4 disabled. The plugins below is what I ended up with. I also tested themes which we will talk about in a moment.

1.    Akismet
2.    Sharebar
3.    pretty link lite
4.    SeoPressor
5.    Alexa Claim
6.    Banner Genius
7.    Foobox lightbox
8.    Google XML Sitemap
9.    jetpack
10.    maxblogpress favicon
11.    Respnsive add on
12.    Sharebar
13.    Ultimate tinymce
14.    wpGoogle fonts
15.    Yet Another related post
16.    Excerpt plugin

Now I tested 4 themes for the Speed test

Heatmap adaptive, the review theme, WP 2014, and the Socrates 3 theme. The adaptive theme and the review theme were dogs. So I took them off the table. What you are about to see is the results of the testing. this is not a tutorial just logistics.

1.   speed test with review theme
88/100
46
5.44s
7.0MB

2. Speed test With 2014 WP-theme
71/100
93 Requests
4.68s load
1.0MB

3. Speed test with Responsive
71/100
66Request
2.44s
593.3KB
With plugins
70/100
71R

4. Socrates 3
646.5KB pagesize.
Socrates 3 theme after removing 8 plugins
71/100
70 Request
5.58S loadtime
644.3 KB page size

Final: After deleting all unused plugins and themes and deciding on the Socrates theme
67/100 perf grade
58 requests
2.07s load time
244.8KB
Total time for testing from start to finish 2 hours.

Now if you want to speed up your blog and need a step by step tutorial- Just check out the video below.

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