Thursday, 21 April 2011

Painful but necessary cuts

No, not that.  In order to do something about the lethargic speed at which this page sometimes loads and scrolls down, I’ve made the following changes to the layout:

  • Cut the number of posts per page from 10 to 7 (and may yet cut it further)
  • Cut the number of ‘popular posts’ displayed on the sidebar from 7 to 5
  • Cut the ‘blogs I read’ feed from all to the 10 most recently updated
  • Removed the sitemeter and visitors map
  • Cut a number of links from ‘podcasts to which I listen’ and ‘other links’.

So far there has only been a small change in speed, but then I may well have hindered things by uploading three embedded videos into a recent post.  Ah well.  All suggestions as to how I can speed things up will be welcome.

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