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I Got Tipped

Posted on June 4, 2006 ·

Wow, for the first time in my life I’ve just got tipped: 

As it’s the first of the month, it’s BlogTipping Day. The sites I read are plentiful (here’s a list) and diverse and so are the tips.

BlogTip #1: Zoli’s Blog
Author: Zoli Erdos

I read this blog because:

  • He consistently introduces new tools and widgets – sharing insights
  • Though I rarely visit the actual site (slow load), I like how heshares his Calendar of Events and more so, his del.icio.us tags (I’mgoing to implement the latter) – sharing knowledge
  • Lots and Lots of content, lots of humor and wit.

TIP: Aggregators and Browsers are auto-discovering this feed: instead of this feed (../blog/index.xml) instead of your FeedBurner feed (http://feeds.feedburner.com/zoli). Here’s a quick fix I wrote about earlier: Are Your FeedBurner Feeds Auto-Discovered?

Thanks Mike.  I’m sorry for the slow load – I hope  John, Blogharbor’s super-helpful owner reads this….

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Comments

  1. Anonymous says
    June 4, 2006 at 10:54 pm

    WebsiteOptimization.com reports that your Main Page is loading 75 objects totalling 917K (almost 1 MB):

    • 15 Javascripts are required to fetch data from 9 different sources including Technorati, Sitemeter, Statcounter, Mapstats, etc. None of these Javascripts are hosted on your BlogHarbor hosted weblog, and a delay in response from any one of these sources will cause your visitors’ browser to pause since it can not render the page until all the data has arrived…
    • 51 Images load from 15 different external services, such as Flickr, Technorati, Blogflux, creativecommons, and so on. Again, a delay in response from any of those remote servers will cause the browser to pause…
    • 4 Flash players need to load from You tube…

    Your slow load times are due to the 15 third party Javascripts. That’s a tremendous amount of overhead in page rendering time. If any one of those services does not promptly return data to the browser, then the browser will have to wait…

    I know you well enough by now that you’re skeptical and don’t believe me one bit. 😉 You can always verify, though…

    Remove the 15 remote Javascripts and load your page again, or ask anyone else who thought your page was slow, and see if it loads faster… Dollars to donuts your page load times are significantly faster. Reduce the number of Javascripts on the page by removing the ones with the poorest performance, and your blog host will suddenly become so much speedier.

  2. Anonymous says
    June 5, 2006 at 10:51 am

    But the calendar is such a cool feature:-) Thanks for the mention, Zoli. Keep up the great work. I’ll be reading every word you write.

  3. Anonymous says
    June 5, 2006 at 11:20 am

    Mike, if you like the calendar, why not switch to Zvents on your blog?. You can quickly pull in public events of your interest, mix it with your own, and publish it on the blog.

  4. Anonymous says
    June 5, 2006 at 5:53 pm

    Yep. Good idea, I’m planning on giving Zvents a try later this week.

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