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Yup. YSlow says this is the faster Cache Plugin

Cheers
Mick, Sydney AU

You certainly are allowed to place ads there.
If the Google plugin lets you, you’re fine to do it.
You cannot place an ad where a fly-over or drop down menu covers it and it might be accidentally clicked.
No more than 3 block ads. (3 Additional Google Link ads are ok to have as well)
You can also have ads from other vendors like ‘Clixgalore’,’Adstream’, ‘Clickbank’, etc.

Hope this helps

An email about a plugin IS a critical alert.
There may be times when a plugin is found to have a security flaw that is being used maliciously. Or there is a back door into your site through that plugin.
You really should read through the settings page!
You’ll find every setting for alerts in there.
And yes you did sign up for news mail.

I really don’t like people that install a plugin, go ‘click’ ‘click’ click’ and say it doesn’t work. Or even worse they write a bad review of something that is exceptional in a sea of mediocre.

Mick

Have you guys tried WPtouch plugin?
Works for me.

Package/Object Load Times

In the FireBug menu there is a tab called ‘net’.
Using the ‘net’ section will show in real time how long each object is loading.
It starts at the left from the time you click and continues across till all is loaded. It is presented as each object is fetched from the server. It tells you in milliseconds and seconds (god forbid minutes),how long each object took to transfer to your browser. The display is in a Graphic Bar Chart so its easy to see what is slow.

An inaccurate way to tell if your server is slow is to transfer a file. See how long it takes to Download from your site and/or a friends site.

Yslow has a timer in the FireFox lower task/address bar.
Every page that loads is timed. From the moment you click the link till the last object is loaded on that page.
The only problems that can come up are CDN jams. (Content Delivery Networks)
If you have stuff on your page that comes from another source, say Google Maps, that will have an effect on your overall page speed.
It’s good to have your page loading from multiple sources. It’s like a 4 lane highway. Heaps of traffic. But if one of them is a bus lane you’ll have speed problems.
Yslow will identify who or what is slowing down your page! “for FREE”

These are the plugins I run all the time.
SEO Quake
The best overall FireFox plugin you can find. It tells you everything about a web site with just a right click!
Alexa Tool Bar
This give you your Alexa Rank and a few Analytics about your visitors and search queeries.
FireBug
This plugin lets you study individual objects on your page.
The Javas Scripts, HTML, XML, PHP, etc, are displayed for debugging and error checking.
YSlow
Well we all know how goog YSlow is and the weight that Google puts on your page speed. (Slow page=Google Fail)

YSlow is a free plugin for FireFox
FireBug is also a free plugin for FireFox.

You Current rating
“Grade C Overall performance score 74%”

This page has 11 external Javascript scripts. Try combining them into one.
This page has 5 external stylesheets. Try combining them into one.
This page has 10 external background images. Try combining them with CSS sprites.

There are 31 static components without a far-future expiration date.
There are 14 plain text components that should be sent compressed.
There are 29 components with misconfigured ETags.

Most are fairly easy to fix by adding code to your .htaccess file.

To disable E-Tags add this to your .htaccess file
Header unset ETag
FileETag None

To add GZip ability to served files add this line to .htaccess file.
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml

Expires header will need more indepth info you can find here.
https://petewilliams.info/blog/2009/08/speed-up-your-site-and-get-a-y-slow-grade-a/

Cheers

The FF plugin you need is ‘YSlow‘

It integrates with firebug to give you and indepth view of what is happening on load. Yslow has a rating system from F to A along with a percentage. It will point out specific problems that need to be addressed. I try to get my sites to around 85-90% (B-A) rating. You will find it very hard to get 100%.

The main impact on page speed is java and css. Images are easily fixed for speed, but java script may come from third parties like Google Analytics or some other provider that you have no control over.

Hope this helps.
Cheers

Awesome Effort!!
You should feel very proud.

I have the same issues with the top menu. (Pixelated Font)
You may need to change the font your using as it’s not very web safe.
You could try the google fonts that get loaded with the page but that may blowout you load times.

I’m running FF on windows 7 32bit.
1680 x 1050 screen resolution.

Have you checked your Google Analytics for the most common screen resolution and browser options of your visitors?
That would be the first place I would go and replicate the most common to see how it presents.

Well done
Mick

G’day Ethan,

Nice effort.
It’s just a little busy and you need to add a few more Google ads throughout the site if you want to generate extra dollars.
The images in the posts are squished a bit. Try to hold the shift key or control key while your resizing them. That way they will be constrained to the original shape.

Well done buddy.
Mick