In my continuing fight to get my sites running faster, I've installed PHP Speedy on two of them. Both sites are running WP 2.8.5 and Atahualpa 3.4.4, and both also have the Featured Content Gallery plugin running on the front page. I think maybe there is a slight speed improvement, but I'd like to get some feedback. I've enabled the speed meter in the footer, so would you please visit the sites, note the speed, reload the page and note the speed again? I would appreciate it!

http://www.larchmontgazette.com
http://www.scuppernongmedia.com

here you go
scuppernongmedia.com
initial - 110 queries. - 1.333 seconds.
reload - 110 queries. - 2.900 seconds.
cleared Safari cache
reload - 110 queries. - 0.748 seconds.
reload - 110 queries. - 0.670 seconds.

Quit Safari, restarted
initial - 110 queries. 0.661 seconds.

Went to contact page
initial 111 queries. - 0.854 seconds.
reload - 111 queries. - 0.861 seconds.
cleared Safari cache
reload - 111 queries. 0.641 seconds.
reload - 111 queries. 0.782 seconds.
reload - 111 queries. 0.922 seconds.


http://www.larchmontgazette.com/
initial - 106 queries. 2.068 seconds.
reload - 106 queries. 2.216 seconds.
reload - 106 queries. 2.140 seconds.
reload - 106 queries. 3.123 seconds.
reload - 106 queries. 1.945 seconds.
reload - 106 queries. 2.388 seconds.

Quit Safari, restarted
initial - 106 queries. 1.971 seconds.
reload - 106 queries. 2.052 seconds.
reload - 106 queries. 2.128 seconds.

Went to News page
initial - 67 queries. 1.815 seconds.
reload - 67 queries. 1.717 seconds.
reload - 67 queries. 1.684 seconds.

OK, that's about what I'm getting, and a bit slower in Firefox.

It's weird that the second reload can take longer. Why is that, I wonder? I guess it's worth having the plugin, don't you think?

try this out also (the free version).

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/web-optimizer/

It worked better for me than php speedy (faster). And php speedy caused some javascript conflicts.

I had to turn off gzip css compression and gzip html compression but all the other defaults I left on. The gzip I believe is done by my server (bluehost) or conflicts with FastCGI.

On one of my websites I also had to turn off the "move to body" options. Weird that it worked differently on different websites on the same server but who knows?

When I tested on pingdom, there was not really any change but there is a noticeable speed up when loading the site. I am guessing that somehow pingdom is not accurately measuring all the things like caching the javascript that the plugin is actually doing.

Wow. I tried Web Optimizer on another of my sites, and it totally blew up the formatting. Uh-uh. Nope.

Did you turn off css gzip and html gzip? Also try turning of the two "move to body boxes" in the first section. I have it running on 4 websites and am pleased with the speed increasesx on them all. Check out this website of mine (not atahualpa) www.athomepetsitting.com. It flies.

The atahualpa site with 96 plugins also running web optimizer is www.d4v.org