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Pingdom says page size is a total of 298kb and page load is 3.06 secs (on my personal host, since they had me pull the GS site)
Their original site on GoDaddy is a total of 216.5 kb and page load is 2.68 seconds.
GS 196kb is images, Scripts 88.1 kB (jquery); CSS 7.0 kB; HTML 6.8 kB
Original 213.5kb is images, remainder is badly formed HTML
Now, the version of their site I can test right now is on my personal web server and their original version is still on GoDaddy. It doesn't appear to be a measurable difference. New version also has meta data that the old lacked, etc.
Is there a way to cache server side? The majority of the pages will only be modified occasionally. If I switch to the Google location of jquery, they may have that already cached which would save them 88 kB...
Maybe the problem is jQuery which I used to replace the old Dreamweaver rollover code to make their rollover menu more flexible for the templating system. Of course, it also degrades to text if the images or JS don't work, something I thought was highly beneficial.
ETA: Replaced the local jquery call to the ajax version and got load time down to 2.43 seconds on my server.
Pingdom says page size is a total of 298kb and page load is 3.06 secs (on my personal host, since they had me pull the GS site)
Their original site on GoDaddy is a total of 216.5 kb and page load is 2.68 seconds.
GS 196kb is images, Scripts 88.1 kB (jquery); CSS 7.0 kB; HTML 6.8 kB
Original 213.5kb is images, remainder is badly formed HTML
Now, the version of their site I can test right now is on my personal web server and their original version is still on GoDaddy. It doesn't appear to be a measurable difference. New version also has meta data that the old lacked, etc.
Is there a way to cache server side? The majority of the pages will only be modified occasionally. If I switch to the Google location of jquery, they may have that already cached which would save them 88 kB...
Maybe the problem is jQuery which I used to replace the old Dreamweaver rollover code to make their rollover menu more flexible for the templating system. Of course, it also degrades to text if the images or JS don't work, something I thought was highly beneficial.
ETA: Replaced the local jquery call to the ajax version and got load time down to 2.43 seconds on my server.
