We made a number changes in an attempt to speed up the page downloading time. One of the "culprits" was the placement of the Google ads at the top. So that was moved to the bottom, gaining in considerable downloading speed but sacrificing ads visibility - oh, btw, after almost a year, we've accumulated slightly over 40 dollars in ads revenues - so we added a small one to the right panel to compensate for that.
The CSS was also compressed to reduce its size by almost 20%. We also reduced the size of a background image used for the story page. This image was 1042 x 55 and was about 42 kb. The new one is not even 6 kb! These two elements are cached by the browser so they don't really matter but for first time visitors, the page downloading can be slowed down considerably because of them.
Last edited on 2007-10-19 14:31:34 by Pha. Sphinx
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