Comments on: 8 Reasons Your Website Is Slow

By: Jack

Jack — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 13:04:31 +0000

No wonder one of my TV Streaming website is getting slower to load.

I had 3,000 + posts already. That’s 3,000+ external embeds.

No wonder.

Thanks man.

By: sunnybear

sunnybear — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:14:51 +0000

There is a tool to do all this automatically – Web Optimizer, http://code.google.com/p/web-optimizator/ . All the bulky code, unnecessary requests and not-gzipped content chunks are removed.

By: JohnD

JohnD — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 04:16:48 +0000

I had recent experience with this issue when I noticed consistent feedback from the US that our new site was slow. I tried most the above which made a difference but the big improvement came when I added aptimize to my web server and the difference is amazing

I guess I had never thought of our website downloading slower in other countries and we were lucky our customers mentioned this when our site was new.

By: Velvet Blues

Velvet Blues — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 23:08:03 +0000

Thanks for the link. And I agree with that viewpoint. When compared with other methods, the savings are small. That is why there are several methods that I listed, and taken together, you can significantly reduce the overall page size.

And while on fast connections, you won’t notice any appreciable difference, on slow connections you will. Many visitors to this website come from India, and other countries where the average user is on a dial-up connection.

But if I were to give someone one suggestion for optimizing their website, I’d tell them to start with their images.

Thanks for visiting.

By: Randal Oulton

Randal Oulton — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 19:54:51 +0000

Re: removing unnecessary whitespace

See this page:

http://nadeausoftware.com/articles/2007/03/don_t_use_html_white_space_removal_speed_web_site

These people seem to have done detailed analysis of that recommendation, and seem to have concluded it’s really not worth doing.

Not saying they’re right, just pointing out an opposing statement into which some work seems to have been put.