Things Are Finally Speeding Up
This week for me has basically been a whole lot of web development and revamping. While I’d love to just be able to “set it and forget it”, unfortunately that’s not always the case with websites. You need to constantly revamp, revise, update, and improve your website’s performance in order to maintain and improve and maintain a quality user experience. The other day, a friend of mine had noticed that my blog alone was throwing 400 requests and taking 40 seconds to load the main page. There’s a great tool built into Google Chrome (view-> developer tools) where you can see and analyze everything that is running w
hen your website’s page loads. What was the culprit? WordPress plugins. Oh, they’re fun to add and change and play around with, but certain plugins will jack up your website so bad. The Sexybookmarks plugin was one of the most labor intensive plugins I had running. Now we’ve switched over to some simple social share links, and with way better results. If you haven’t already noticed, the site is flying now compared to the turtle speed it was chugging along with previously. Less is definitely more, when it comes to add-ons, widgets, and plugins. Now that we have things up to par again, I’m hoping and praying that my web host doesn’t send me another email threatening to shut us down. That’s never a good thing! Onward and upward.
In other news, on our main web page ArenaCreative.com we are approaching 6000 stock images live, so we are almost completely up and running with the entire collection. Don’t forget to check it out, if you could use some stock images. We are running a Spring Sale where you can score 25% your entire order, just by using coupon code SPRINGSALE25. We also have two new subscription plan pricing packages available. Take a look around, and let us know what you think of our entirely revamped stock photo website.
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