Feb 24 2008
PaulpBaker.COM - v13.0 Extreme Edition is out
Here is what’s new:
Auto Embed Video Clips on Streaming Sites
Font and Size Dropdown
Invitation System
Post Frequency Bar
RSS Feed Icon for ALL Boards & Sub-Boards
Signature Dropdown Choices
AJAX Tabbed Shoutbox & Donate Mod
Spoiler Show & Hide
URL Popup Mod
Feb 23 2008
There will be some site maintenance tonight on PaulpBaker.COM and will last no longer then 3hrs
No other sites will be affected during this time
Feb 19 2008
Hey guys today i launched a new sister site to SimpsonsEPS.COM called FamilyGuyEPS.COM
Please check it out and let me know what you think!!!
Feb 16 2008
Hey guys i’ve found this new thing from yahoo called YSlow (for firefox)
Speed up your web pages with YSlow
YSlow analyzes web pages and tells you why they’re slow based on the rules for high performance web sites. YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the popular Firebug web development tool.
After scanning a site you get a score out of 100 (100 being the best) and a rank from A to F
As an example here are the results for alexa.com’s top 5 sites by popularity/views:
1. yahoo.com = A (92)
2. youtube.com = C (72)
3. live.com = B (89)
4. google.com = A (94)
5. msn.com = C (72)
As you can see they are all high scores but not all sites are as high
Here is an example of 3 BIG sites with low scores:
digg.com = F (51)
torrentfreak.com = F (48)
mininova.org = F (55)
I’m sure you get the point by now and here’s what my current site scored:
paulpbaker.com = F (44)
paulpbaker.com/forum = F (49)
simpsonseps.com = D (63)
paulpbaker.info = F (41)
ppbhost.com = F (54)
After many many hours of correcting things like expires headers, gzip components, avoiding css expressions, reducing dns lookups, minify js, configure etags etc I finally finished tweaking and have some good results
In part 1 of this 2 parter I’ll be looking/tweaking the following sites:
simpsonseps.com, paulpbaker.info, ppbhost.com
In part 2 I’ll be tweaking the following sites:
paulpbaker.com, paulpbaker.com/forum (2 different scripts integrated together)
Here are the results for part 1:
simpsonseps.com = B (82)
paulpbaker.info = B (80)
ppbhost.com = B (84)
Some amazing results if you ask me and the only things i lose points for is not having a cluster of server to host the site on and having a few external scripts (like the shoutbox on simpsonseps.com for example) but nether will slow the site down so it’s an almost perfect score
Conclusions: The load time for ppbhost.com haven’t really change as it’s a very small site BUT for paulpbaker.info the results are amazingly fast and for simpsonseps.com there also really really improved!!
Lets see what i can do in part 2 for paulpbaker.com and paulpbaker.com/forum :)
Please Note: As well as using YSlow for analysing the sites I used a script called php speedy for compressing the javascript, css and to enable gzip compression on all php/html files
Feb 12 2008
Seems the new image verification system for the comments has messed up the polls but i’ll fix this soon!
