PaulpBaker.info

Just thought i’d let you know that i’m in the process of splitting this site into two site

1. An info site for all my sites that will let you know all the latest news and/or network outages (this site)

2. My own peronal blog (the new site)

I’m not giving the domain out yet BUT i’ll post it here probbly within the next 24hrs!!

EDIT: http://fail2care.com

PaulpBaker.info is now hosted on our second server and my other sites will follow later

More info on Server #2

PPBHost.COM is now also on Server #2

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

On the 6th Jan 2008 my off site hosting for this blog/info site decided to delete my account with no warning and after a lot of emails we both had NO backups of the site so i lost everything but i had an idea and thanks to the power off google cache and a lot of thinking what was on the site i’ve finally finished totally rewriting the site!!

The site is temporarly being hosted on my main server until i get some of site hosting as it kinda defeats the point of this site hosting it on the same server

The only downside to this is i’ve lost ALL comments from when i open this blog until the 11th jan 08 :(

All i have reaming to do is the poll’s