Category Archives: Other
Page Speed & YSlow Rating
With Google changing its page-rank algorithm to incorporate the speed of which web pages load. It is now even more important to bear in mind the speed in which your blog loads in order to keep more visitors returning to your blog. I have recently been trying to speed up loading speeds and tweaking code within my WordPress blog. After spending a week testing and trialling different plugins and code changes using GTMetrix.com which checks against Page Speed from Google and YSlow from Yahoo. GTMetrix combines both rating services and allows reports to be saved and optimizing options listed.
After optimizing I have been able to achieve a rating of
| Default WordPress | Peter-Kelly.me | Google.com | |
| Page Rank (Google) | 87% (B) | 98% (A) | 96% (A) |
| YSlow (Yahoo) | 93% (A) | 97% (A) | 70% (C) |
The default WordPress is a simple WordPress installation without any plugins, changes of theme or content etc. When comparing between both the WordPress installation and google.com overall I have been able to make significant improvements on the page rank after optimizing. The primary reason for not getting 100% is due to using Google Analytics. Shortly I will be posting with how you too can improve your Page Speed and YSlow.
New Website -> New Server
Last night you may have noticed some downtime or a moving page shown, This was due to me transferring peter-kelly.me onto a brand new server, with a new provider, data centre and software. We have got rid of the slow speeds and are ready to go 
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I am still running some tests so any errors you see please ignore them and I will try sort them out as soon as possible.
Many Thanks
Pete
