Marcus Hamaker is The Sleepy Geek

I was working on optimizing my site a little again and I had been told by a couple of people that inactive WordPress Plugins tend to slow the site loading time slightly. I had a chance last night to go to some website load time testing pages (such as http://www.websitegoodies.com/tools/speed-test.php) and on average it was taking ~14 seconds to completelty load the page. Now this is pretty aweful if you look at the number itself but the majority of the website is loaded much faster than that. There are certainly things still loading but most are plugins that are accessing external sources.

So off I went and started to review what plugins I might want to keep and which were just a test to see if I liked it. After looking at my list with the intention of deleting the dead weight I was amazed that all of the plugins that I wasn’t actually running live were garbage. So a select-all and delete it was! A quick check back with the speed testing sites and now I am averaging a load time in the neighbourhood of 11 seconds. Still not optimal but a definate part of the problem.

Happy blogging lads!

I was in the process of deleting some pictures that weren’t the best quality and hit the wrong button. That really ticks me off because I spent a lot of time keeping that up to date and with a quick clickety click it’s all gone. So all of you Gallery2 users out there be careful about what section you are in when you are deleting things.

Now I have a screwed up Gallery2 page and I am in the process of changing my OS. I am going to have to find a way to upload to Gallery2 from iPhoto. I know of a plugin but the issue is iLife ’09 compatibility. Not sure if it works.