<p>I also manage a .com website and have learned some things along the way. I do believe at least one thing I've come across can be useful for this website.<br /><br />Benefits: <br />Very cheap (estimates of around one dollar per month or so).<br />Immense cross site benefits in terms of reducing load times.<br />Less load times are noticed by both search engines and users!<br /><br />Disadvantages: <br />None known! Depending on the circumstances, it is set up quickly and results are instantaneous improvement. <br /><br />So the thing I am talking about here is Amazon S3. Essentially, Amazon has servers across the planet that are designed to transmit information faster to users as opposed to where other servers would be located. Let us pretend the server that contains this website is located in Virgina. Well, someone in Hawaii will have to load that content from that server and it will take significantly longer as it is a fairly long distance. The host who is using Amazon's cheap services will have their site hosted on thousands of servers across the world so that person in Hawaii can access the content on this site from a server in California or Hawaii, reducing their page load times in a massive way.<br /><br />The difference can be as much as 8 seconds or more, which is massive. Count out 8 seconds, and multiply that by all the visitors who might come to this site. How many hours are wasted? Considering the unction that we are trying to provide here, it seems like what I am proposing here has a massive return to cost ratio which is exactly what we really need.<br /><br />Facebook and other sites use it. When you see facebookcdn or cdn.facebook.com or cdn.(website).com, that is the site utilizing Amazon's system in order to get the page loading up on the browser faster. Gnosticteachings can easily reap the same benefits of these major sites, thus cdn.gnosticteachings.com is what appears when the page loads, this site will be on all those servers across the world and therefore the people of Australia will be fetching data off the servers in Australia, not North America... <br /><br />This is a very easy way to reduce page load times.<br /><br />I am familiar with Wordpress but this idea can be applied to any platform.<br /><br />What does this website run on? I'm sure I can help out more if I know, I can make recommendations, etc if you wish to go into dialog.<br /><br />Here is a link to the wordpress plugin (incase this is running on Wordpress): http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/<br /><br />Here is a youtube video regarding the plugin but it provides valuble information on the Amazon server stuff that is certainly worth knowing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkmrQP8S5KY<;br /><br />That video also contains a lot of neat little tricks and services worth knowing.<br /><br />Depending on what this site is hosted on, there are also a lot of free plugins and stuff that reduce the size of images without impacting quality. This also benefits load times. Yahoo has a server called truncate or something, it's mentioned in the above youtube video.<br /><br />Let me know if you are interested in my assistance! I am very up to date on the very latest stuff, I know that my skills are a pristine and untapped resource that could be useful to you. I really do, so please get in touch if you could use the help.<br /><br />One last thing, I am naive, perhaps this service is already in use on the site, I have not checked and may be preaching to the choir. I do not mean to impose, however if it is not in use then I know that it will have an exceptional benefit on a site like this.</p>
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We always appreciate the input of the community. Thanks! But you may be slightly influenced by funny circumstances: you have been speed testing the site during a time in which we are revamping it from the ground up. Many of the processes that speed it up are turned off at the moment. The site is undergoing a massive overhaul. In the end, it will be far faster and more stable, as well as having lots of new features. We hope to everything functional (and fast) in a few days.
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Here is a tool from the video:
http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/
We see here that your site had a page load time of 3.56 seconds (which is quite good) and is faster then 46% of all their tested websites. This is good, it means you are faster then half the pages out there, but there is still 54% room for improvement
It shows how long every file took to download, thus helps you evaluate what could be slowing it down, etc.
It's biggest recommendation is to "Serve static content from a cookieless domain", it was it's biggest critique. Which would be resolved by the very cheap amazon service I recommended, I imagine.
36% of page load time is due to your images, so to reduce size here would help load times the most. To place an image of your site of the very smallest filesize yet still maintaining quality is the goal, so experimentation with that might be worthwhile.
31% of page load time is due to scripts, which are of course necessary but can always be refined.
It has ways for you to track the speed over time, so you can see the effects of the work you do. I think this is free as well.
http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/
We see here that your site had a page load time of 3.56 seconds (which is quite good) and is faster then 46% of all their tested websites. This is good, it means you are faster then half the pages out there, but there is still 54% room for improvement
It shows how long every file took to download, thus helps you evaluate what could be slowing it down, etc.
It's biggest recommendation is to "Serve static content from a cookieless domain", it was it's biggest critique. Which would be resolved by the very cheap amazon service I recommended, I imagine.
36% of page load time is due to your images, so to reduce size here would help load times the most. To place an image of your site of the very smallest filesize yet still maintaining quality is the goal, so experimentation with that might be worthwhile.
31% of page load time is due to scripts, which are of course necessary but can always be refined.
It has ways for you to track the speed over time, so you can see the effects of the work you do. I think this is free as well.
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We always appreciate the input of the community. Thanks! But you may be slightly influenced by funny circumstances: you have been speed testing the site during a time in which we are revamping it from the ground up. Many of the processes that speed it up are turned off at the moment. The site is undergoing a massive overhaul. In the end, it will be far faster and more stable, as well as having lots of new features. We hope to everything functional (and fast) in a few days.
If you find our resources useful and want others to benefit as well, make a donation to Glorian Publishing. Every donation makes a difference.
I have noticed, getting some 404 errors that come and go but no big deal. If that is the case then it is quite fast indeed, which is great. The internet is getting to the point where both fast and fancy are becoming a feasible notion with the proper knowledge and application. I just have been somewhat inspired by my work on my own site and wanted to share that information on Amazon S3 - it's the most popular application on the Wordpress site and I imagine that it could be incorporated into Joomla as well. We live in an exciting age, to have all of this intellectual information so quickly accessible to anyone, it is certainly a ray of hope in an uncertain world. Love the site by the way, this is a very nice system that is being developed. Any major site kind of needs their own individually developed systems and coding, it is pleasant to see the one on this site is coming together as well it is is.
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