With the site down time we had here a couple days ago, it made me think about how the overall performance of Sucka.net could be improved.  With the help of a few crafty FireFox plugin’s I was able to cut the Home page from an average of 1.75 megabytes down to 300 kilobytes.  Not too shabby if I don’t say so myself! :)  Firebug and YSlow are great tools and I would recommend them to anyone wanting to know the nitty gritty about their site and it’s performance.

Also I upgraded the script that maintains the image rotator on the home page.  The timthumb.php script before seemed to be happy about converting my original logo’s from 30-40kb jpegs to 200kb png’s.  Why? I dunno, but they are much more optimized as of now.

The PHP Speedy, WP-Cache, and WP-Super Cache are also playing well with each other.  So, overall the site should run much better and faster.  Hopefully I won’t see anymore random 404 errors where there shouldn’t be.  Feel free to let me know if you experience any further problems along with a date and time it happened so I may track them down in the logs.  I really don’t want to run a site that is slow and fails all the time.  I got a rep to maintain!

On another note, I’ve removed several useless tag’s I put in that really didn’t reflect the content very well.  That may cause some of the 404 errors for a bit while the search engine’s filter those out over the next couple weeks.

Cheers!