Comments on: Importing clang to base

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 24 Dec 2016 20:38:16 +0000

I would take the one link’s recommendations as generic, as I don’t understand how gzip would make a significant different if it’s a rendering issue. gzip would only affect bandwidth usage which is not the issue.

In any case, I hope to have enough time over the next week to work on a different layout – the Simplish template I am using is no longer updated by its author. Moving to a new layout will change/improve a number of factors.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 24 Dec 2016 17:39:35 +0000

Easiest way to fix it. Install this Apache / NGinx module

https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/module/

By: Advait

Advait — Sat, 24 Dec 2016 15:33:23 +0000

A YSlow & Pagespeed slow performance review of this site

https://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.dragonflydigest.com/wVXNPXgO

As you can see, simply enabling GZIP and ETAGs will go a huge way to you getting a better rating.

By: Advait

Advait — Sat, 24 Dec 2016 01:28:48 +0000

Linked below is a web report card for this site

https://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.dragonflydigest.com/7RCmqFje

As you can see, simply enabling gzip compression and ETAGs in apache will make a HUGE difference on your site.

To help, the link below is instructive on how to enable most of these performance tweaks

https://wpshout.com/10-ways-to-use-htaccess-to-speed-up-wordpress/

By: Advait

Advait — Sat, 24 Dec 2016 01:18:19 +0000

I too always experience > 10 second load times.

The issue doesn’t appear to be network. But basic front end rendering. E.g. Gzip, compress images, caching, etc.

All the stuff YSlow & PageSpeed tells you.

When I run those browser plugins, it’s shows this site failing big time.

Please no disrespect in my comments. But me too like the person above, love this site. Just wish it was a bit faster. And in about 15 min of effort it could be.

I’m happy to help if you’d like.

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 23 Dec 2016 22:04:34 +0000

Welp, it’s the path to the site, not the site. I can work on the layout but it sounds like there’s going to be a ceiling on my efforts based on where you are.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 23 Dec 2016 21:24:33 +0000

Wow, 1-2 second loads.

I typically get 10 second loads from anywhere I try.

The follow online web site speed ranking tool confirms what I see, 10 second load times

https://www.webpagetest.org

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 22 Dec 2016 22:25:29 +0000

The page loads in 1-2 seconds every place I’ve tried it from… which makes me think it’s something outside of the server itself. I don’t have a good answer past that. I am due to change the template it uses, since what it’s based on has not been updated in a long time. That may help.

By: TeddyK

TeddyK — Thu, 22 Dec 2016 21:36:03 +0000

Hi Justin

Really love your site. I visit it multiple times per week.

Question: have you look into using some plugins to speed up your WordPress site? I only ask because it seems extremely slow.

Some thing that might help include:

1. Using a caching plugin

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-super-cache/

2. Enabling GZIP (which doesn’t appear to be enabled).

3. Use Cloudflare.com

Just some thoughts from a friend.

By: Bruno

Bruno — Wed, 21 Dec 2016 22:56:21 +0000

People could import DTrace. Even NetBSD has DTrace.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 21 Dec 2016 21:38:31 +0000

Looking very forward to eventually being able to use Clang to compile Dragonfly!