I just spent the evening “cleaning house” around here. Not the most exciting of chores, but, boy, was it necessary! Our recent redesign took me over a month to layout and code, and I spent no time whatsoever thinking about load times, etc. Then, yesterday, while I was participating in a screen-share with a potential client, I watched him wait for nearly thirty seconds for the themes page to load. How embarrassing.

So, here’s what’s been optimized:

  • CSS consolidated from 8 sheets (yikes) down to 2
  • Javascript is now only included on the pages that actually need them.
  • Most PNG images have been converted to JPG.
  • Raw images resized to their actual browser dimensions.

Now, everything should be faster. 2.7% faster as a matter of fact!