It has been a busy couple of weeks on Canadian Tax Resource. I have been evaluating and posting a backlog of articles as well as working on improving the speed at which the site loads.
I am happy to announce that I have been able to cut the time it takes pages from Canadian Tax Resource by a full 2/3rds (from about 9 seconds to about 3!). This increase in performance should make your experience moving through the site much better.
Other improvements to CTR include:
- The new 2010 Income Tax Calculator
- A new subscribe box
- A Follow Us on FaceBook Button
- An Improved Google Search bar
Special Thanks To Those Who Mentioned CTR on Twitter or via their bolgs:
- @nataliejoan
- @CanadianFinance – Tom at the Canadian Finance Blog
- @BlackStilt
- @josealbis
- @LLBrougham
Have a great long weekend!
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Some nice improvements and thanks for the mention!
Site speed is something I’m looking to tackle next, I just did a major version upgrade to my theme and will look for any further ways to improve. One of which will be switching from Super-Cache to W3 Total Cache since the Headway Theme is coded to work specifically with that plugin.
Thanks!
The biggest improvements included adjusting my OpenX ad server to reduce javascript, implementing compression on the back end, and cleaning up my database.
I would like to reduce load time to about 1-2 seconds max. I’ll need to look at the number of mysql requests.
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