PaulpBaker.info

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

Just letting you all know on the 9th of feb (this Saturday) there will be 3-5hrs of downtime at about 8am CST

This will only affect paulpbaker.com and ppbhost.com

paulpbaker.info and simpsonseps.com will remain online

Whilst the site is down i suggest you go on simpsonseps.com and check out the new streaming section!! ;)

Sorry for any inconvenience!

I’m still having some problems with this domain but i hope to get this sorted soon but until then i’ll keep you updated