Is it really WordPress?

Thank you very much guys!

First of all thank you barryha,
The information you supllied is great, it is a scientific point of view. I remember there was a FF plguin but not free, it shows how much times does it take to load specific packages. If anyone remembers the name I really appreciate.

Secondly, thank you TimeHealer,
I think price calculator is a nice thing to give an estimate to customers. I wish we had a Plugin for Price Calculator. We may think to develop something like that according to requests.

Thanks Jane,

and Thanks jwack,
I think you are right, it is distracting but we need a hook up for customers. Visitor must see something interesting at our page, as we are a media company. It was using flashes at old times but thanks to WordPress, we can do everything so easy and fast now.

The FF plugin you need is ‘YSlow‘

It integrates with firebug to give you and indepth view of what is happening on load. Yslow has a rating system from F to A along with a percentage. It will point out specific problems that need to be addressed. I try to get my sites to around 85-90% (B-A) rating. You will find it very hard to get 100%.

The main impact on page speed is java and css. Images are easily fixed for speed, but java script may come from third parties like Google Analytics or some other provider that you have no control over.

Hope this helps.
Cheers

YSlow is a free plugin for FireFox
FireBug is also a free plugin for FireFox.

You Current rating
“Grade C Overall performance score 74%”

This page has 11 external Javascript scripts. Try combining them into one.
This page has 5 external stylesheets. Try combining them into one.
This page has 10 external background images. Try combining them with CSS sprites.

There are 31 static components without a far-future expiration date.
There are 14 plain text components that should be sent compressed.
There are 29 components with misconfigured ETags.

Most are fairly easy to fix by adding code to your .htaccess file.

To disable E-Tags add this to your .htaccess file
Header unset ETag
FileETag None

To add GZip ability to served files add this line to .htaccess file.
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml

Expires header will need more indepth info you can find here.
https://petewilliams.info/blog/2009/08/speed-up-your-site-and-get-a-y-slow-grade-a/

Cheers

Is there a plugin that I can see the package transfer rate?

How can I make sure that my hosting company is giving me a good service?

There was an another plugin, it is something different than firebug, it shows u how long did it take the load the packages. It was a paid stuff, not free. But I really don’t remember the name

Yslow has a timer in the FireFox lower task/address bar.
Every page that loads is timed. From the moment you click the link till the last object is loaded on that page.
The only problems that can come up are CDN jams. (Content Delivery Networks)
If you have stuff on your page that comes from another source, say Google Maps, that will have an effect on your overall page speed.
It’s good to have your page loading from multiple sources. It’s like a 4 lane highway. Heaps of traffic. But if one of them is a bus lane you’ll have speed problems.
Yslow will identify who or what is slowing down your page! “for FREE”

These are the plugins I run all the time.
SEO Quake
The best overall FireFox plugin you can find. It tells you everything about a web site with just a right click!
Alexa Tool Bar
This give you your Alexa Rank and a few Analytics about your visitors and search queeries.
FireBug
This plugin lets you study individual objects on your page.
The Javas Scripts, HTML, XML, PHP, etc, are displayed for debugging and error checking.
YSlow
Well we all know how goog YSlow is and the weight that Google puts on your page speed. (Slow page=Google Fail)

Package/Object Load Times

In the FireBug menu there is a tab called ‘net’.
Using the ‘net’ section will show in real time how long each object is loading.
It starts at the left from the time you click and continues across till all is loaded. It is presented as each object is fetched from the server. It tells you in milliseconds and seconds (god forbid minutes),how long each object took to transfer to your browser. The display is in a Graphic Bar Chart so its easy to see what is slow.

An inaccurate way to tell if your server is slow is to transfer a file. See how long it takes to Download from your site and/or a friends site.

It struck me as weird that the URLs can be something like “https://media55.ca/media55.ca/wordpress/….” instead of just https://media55.ca/….”

You are a genius you might be talking to a future customer do you do wordpress themes

Hi Christ,

My main hosting account is media55.ca. if I use media55.ca, all the other domains’ folders have to be in the wordpress folder of media55.ca. That why I created a media55.ca folder and basically redirected the main hosting area to media55.ca folder.

I think you are right about wordpress folder name. I should carry all the folders one level up but I am afraid of the static links.

That’s why it looks like that

And Thanks Jakes ?? We don’t do themes, we make minor or major upgrades on them.

Wow, I love your website! Did you build that background and columns yourself? Or is that a theme you downloaded?

Your website is incredible and i cant believe
that you have used word press because your
websites is designed very professional.

my question is did you make the
themes on your website or did you
bought it from wordpress.

If I were one of your customers I would want a perfect site for myself so I would first check your site Upon doing this at the validator Url:
https://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia55.ca%2Fmedia55.ca%2Fwordpress%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&ss=1&outline=1&group=0&No200=1&verbose=1&st=1&user-agent=W3C_Validator%2F1.2

Customers want a great site for themselves they would expect a perfect site from you Here are the errors just in case the link does not work
Validation Output: 3 Errors

Line 132, Column 15: document type does not allow element “p” here; missing one of “object”, “applet”, “map”, “iframe”, “button”, “ins”, “del” start-tag
<p><p><span class=”drop-caps”>W</span>ith our web designer’s combined …
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The mentioned element is not allowed to appear in the context in which you’ve placed it; the other mentioned elements are the only ones that are both allowed there and can contain the element mentioned. This might mean that you need a containing element, or possibly that you’ve forgotten to close a previous element.

One possible cause for this message is that you have attempted to put a block-level element (such as “<p>” or “<table>”) inside an inline element (such as ““, “<span>”, or “<font>”).

Line 157, Column 15: document type does not allow element “p” here; missing one of “object”, “applet”, “map”, “iframe”, “button”, “ins”, “del” start-tag
<p><p><span class=”drop-caps”>L</span>ook to Media55 …
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The mentioned element is not allowed to appear in the context in which you’ve placed it; the other mentioned elements are the only ones that are both allowed there and can contain the element mentioned. This might mean that you need a containing element, or possibly that you’ve forgotten to close a previous element.

One possible cause for this message is that you have attempted to put a block-level element (such as “<p>” or “<table>”) inside an inline element (such as ““, “<span>”, or “<font>”).

Line 182, Column 15: document type does not allow element “p” here; missing one of “object”, “applet”, “map”, “iframe”, “button”, “ins”, “del” start-tag
<p><p><span class=”drop-caps”>I</span>t’s a competitive time in a satu…
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The mentioned element is not allowed to appear in the context in which you’ve placed it; the other mentioned elements are the only ones that are both allowed there and can contain the element mentioned. This might mean that you need a containing element, or possibly that you’ve forgotten to close a previous element.

One possible cause for this message is that you have attempted to put a block-level element (such as “<p>” or “<table>”) inside an inline element (such as ““, “<span>”, or “<font>”).

https://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia55.ca%2Fmedia55.ca%2Fwordpress%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0