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- Hear, hear!
- Sorry about that, fixed now, it's here http://gregorytomlinson.com/encoded/wp-content/plugins/lastfm-recent-tracks-widget/js/LastFMPipe.js
- Interesting post- I'm currently trying to build a similar widget - the 'my implmenentation' link was broken though - would it be possible to recreate that? Thanks!
- commented out line 56 (ulong blah) and it compiled. can't tell you if it worked, though... and that's almost certainly the wrong way to fix it.
- Seems very promising, would love to try it out. Thank for sharing!
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my digital life by gregory tomlinson
A new study analyzing the so-called ‘blog’ format was recently published on Royal Pingdom. Among other things, the study found that many popular blogs exceeded 500kb in page weight.
Long pages with copious amounts of images, links and script files have become synonymous with the blog-style page design and has been replicated across the blogoshere. However, [...] ... Continue reading »
Long pages with copious amounts of images, links and script files have become synonymous with the blog-style page design and has been replicated across the blogoshere. However, [...] ... Continue reading »
8 months ago
1 - enable gzip for your non-php requests (base page, jquery, swfobject.js). It will cut them down significantly and shave at least 1/2 a second off of your start render time (and save you some bandwidth charges if you pay by the byte). Since you're running on an Apache host it should be as simple as enabling mod_deflate.
2 - Collapse all of those js files that come before start render into a single one (or at least just one more in addition to jquery). You can even do it without modifying the js files themselves if you install mod_concat - you just need to change how you reference them. This will shave at LEAST another 1/2 second off. (for bonus you can also combine the css files using the same technique).
From there you could get into image spriting some of the png's if you wanted but the gzip and combining will get you the bulk of the improvements for VERY little work and won't change anything about the blog presentation or architecture.