Christine 2 the Mercenary stated

Red Bull…it gives you pings!

March 2nd, 2006

Keith the Director stated

Hell I’m just impressed chris actually openly asked for help =d>

March 2nd, 2006

aJ the Zen Master got all philosophical

I could give you a couple of reasons why your pages are taking so long. _These reasons_ are only from what I pertain from viewing your site and is only a surface examination..
For one, the images in the Syndicate/feeds section, host them on your server. It will improve performance a bit. The same for the various voting icons after each post (Del.icio.us, furl etc etc.)
Next, I’ve heard(and on my use felt) that the “polls” section is a bit slow. Could be the plugin I tried or something else, but it does cause lags.
You could also move the blog info stats to it’s own page instead of the sidebar. The link to that page can be _statically_ put in the sidebar.
Try and disable these for a couple of days and see if the performance improves.
The page that you have mentioned is slow mainly due to the huge number of comments it has. That is taking a bit of time, *but*, even with that many comments, it’s still taking far too long. Can you try and investigate the indexes in the articles and the comments table. They _might_ be corrupted..
Last, turn on caching.. It should be on by default but, if by some chance you have turned it off, then turn it back on. And also enable the option to serve gzipped version of the pages. That should compress their sizes and enable faster transfer. The caveat to this, I think not all browsers support gzipped content. I know IE, FF and Opera do. No idea about Safari and Konqueror or any other browser out there..
Hope this helps a bit

March 3rd, 2006

aJ the Zen Master got all philosophical

Ohh… Just went through the post again and I think the IP lookup for the country code and the corresponding flag for that country would also add to the slowdown.

March 3rd, 2006

Haas the Addict added

Chris look into what u added recently… IP lookup, flags ect were already there for a long time and they seemed to work fine back then.
Maybe its a new plugin u tried… I hv had bad experiences with plugins(sometimes the support from the creator suddenly goes and it keeps trying to connect to their site)
I dont think the prob is with the db unless
a) you decided to fix something in there that was working
b) you upgraded or moved the files and restored them.
Anyway backtracking is the best way to narrow down these speed issues(try to contact ur site support as well they might hv prob from their side)

March 3rd, 2006

aJ the Zen Master pontificated

Actually Haas, I’ve always noticed the site a bit slower than other WP sites.
Like you, I think he uses a lot of plugins and hotlinks to external images as well
I usually maintain a rule for my blog, at no point have more than 5-6 _Frontend_ plugins active. They _will_ slow down the blog, even if by a little. So, if each slows down the rendering by say, half a second, it adds up to 2.5 seconds already.
(I know, .5 sec is a large number. It was just an example.)

March 3rd, 2006

Keith the Director added

Damn AJ’s the man witht the info..Chris whatever you re-did it’s working remarkably well. Site is running 5x faster over here nice work bra!

March 5th, 2006

eric the Lil' Devil uttered

ok you guys hooked it up, props

March 5th, 2006

Keith the Director asserted

If all it takes is a fast website to make you happy you would be real easy to please by comparison:\”>

March 5th, 2006

Keith the Director uttered

Damn..that bi-polar shit is no joke stay away! =;

March 5th, 2006

Keith the Director remarked

Ahh but we cannot change the past only the future, and you are admitting to being bi-polar! Jeeesh! Bi-polar disease is something you are born with not contract. It just takes longer to develop in some ppl. What a coincidence it just came out on ‘04 Feel fortunate you had so many good years! It’s official now chris stay far away… Don’t feel too bad christine they make very good meds now to help ppl with bi-polar cope with it and lead normal lives. I’ll look up a good one at work tomorrow when I go to the office and let you know! >-

March 5th, 2006

Christine 2 the Mercenary scribbled

Well whatever it is I think you should put the top commentors thing back up. I’m not so happy now that I can’t see it.

March 5th, 2006

Christine 2 the Mercenary said this

Or at least finish the 10 centers page…

March 5th, 2006

Keith the Director up'n wrote this

Christine 2 said, “I think you should put the top commentors thing back up. I?m not so happy now that I can?t see it.” I think you are officially behind me now. ^ ^ Although I like it better being behind you!

March 5th, 2006

Christine 2 the Mercenary mentioned

:\”>

March 5th, 2006

aJ the Zen Master chimed in with

Chris, you could probably put all those stats up on a seperate page of it’s own and provide a link to it!
And yes, the site _has_ sped up over the last couple of days. The pages now take less than a second to create

March 6th, 2006

Keith the Director scribbled

Hey christine 2 it appears that I’m still behind you, which I supposeis where you like me , however I don’t suppose I’ll be there for long, hope you into position changing alot!

March 7th, 2006

Keith the Director commented

I enjoy the bottom as well it’s all good

March 8th, 2006

eric the Lil' Devil chimed in with

holy shit guys a woman who is opinionated and likes to be on top in the sack too? the next thing she’ll say is she likes to give oral because she gets total control? it like stern left fucking xm! phenominal=d> ok maybe the sarcasm was lost in the charachters

March 8th, 2006

Keith the Director mentioned

Entendres..good word christina. Did you try to teach that word yet? Some of our more remedial readers might not know what it means though! haha =))

March 8th, 2006

aJ the Zen Master said this

lol =))

March 8th, 2006

eric the Lil' Devil scribbled

what does christine and kfc have in common? after you’re done with the breasts and thighs all you have left is a greasy box to throw your bone in;)

March 9th, 2006

eric the Lil' Devil penned this

you know if i start to worry about periods as much as everyone else does, i’ll buy fucking stock in tampax,…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………here are your goddamn periods now take a midol and fall back and rest your neck[-(

March 9th, 2006

eric the Lil' Devil stated

thatwas my attempt at celebrating international women’s day with irrational thoughts, you know how a woman acts , speak first, use brain second? yeah i thought you’d like that

March 9th, 2006

Keith the Director pontificated

=)) defintely a draw there touche’ you 2! now play nice! I don’t want to have to get “between” u 2

March 9th, 2006

aJ the Zen Master pontificated

Oooh.. Someone really is getting very touchy here

March 9th, 2006

calli the Virgin got all philosophical

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July 10th, 2007

calli the Virgin asserted

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July 10th, 2007