Comments on: Efficient or non-efficient?

By: Nihar

Nihar — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:17:37 +0000

Great post…

The way you explained and took comments example was good. It shows that we need to take decision between easy coding / Performance based coding.

By: MTG

MTG — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:23:01 +0000

This is so true, we try to optimize the site and forget the real part of code efficiency! Thanks for this great explanation.

By: stathis

stathis — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:59:20 +0000

I totally understand you here. I myself are an efficiency and “find the most efficient way and algorithm to do it” freak.
You’re absolutely correct.

By: Raju

Raju — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:18:02 +0000

From my experience I can say that, one has to install 1 plugin at a time and evaluate its performance for a couple of days. This is helpful for someone like me who doesn’t have patience or knowledge to understand how efficient the plugin code is.

By: Aery

Aery — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:14:05 +0000

Great post for simple understandings.

I have been using WP for a long time now and despite of being techy guy, I never thought in this perspective.

By: paul

paul — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:05:14 +0000

Very good post.

By: Sire

Sire — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:26:54 +0000

Interesting, my only problem is that I love my plugins. I’ve actually installed a cache plugin that is supposed to cache all your plugins thereby speeding things up a bit. As yet I haven’t configured them yet so I’m not sure how well it works.

By: Trey - Swollen Thumb Entertainment

Trey - Swollen Thumb Entertainment — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 22:12:18 +0000

Hi stratosg, this is some refreshing information to read. I’ve been all over the blogosphere, and I see all kinds of articles about making your content efficient, but so many people forget to make their site’s code efficient. I’m not too sure how well I’m doing on mine, because I’m not an expert when it comes to code, but I do try to keep things as simple as I can without sacrificing the artistic merit that I want to keep. I look at other people’s blogs, and sometimes I’m baffled that they think they have a good thing going. And some blogs take FOREVER to load, even though a seemingly more complex blog takes a fraction of that time. Maybe this is why?

By: stratosg

stratosg — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 12:00:13 +0000

@Prasanth: Comparing the number of plugins is not the indication you need. You might be using 50 plugins that make 10 queries in total and you might be using 5 that make 30 total. It all depends on the plugins you use. You would ask “how would i know?”. Well experiment deactivating and activating and see if the performance get’s a lot better. I might write a small article on how you can generally tell.

@Raju: As i said the number of plugins is not as important. The important thing is to closely monitor the performance of your site and as it turns out, you do. As for the picture, it wasn’t meant to be scary but now that i look at it again, it is kinda. Maybe it will make some people’s minds thinking

By: Raju

Raju — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 09:20:40 +0000

whoa!! scary picture! I do not want to disclose the number of plugins I use, but it is quite high. I re-evaluate each of them every week or so, but always feel that I can’t leave without them. The site performance gets the top priority, followed by functionality and aesthetics. I have managed to accommodate good traffic without exceeding my VPS resources more often than not.