Pingdom score drops 4 points?

Hi David,

Did you check the detailed report to see what caused the drop? The plugin follows all the best practices and even bundles the various stylesheets so it only generated 1 extra HTTP request.

Can you send me a screenshot of your pingdom score report with- and without my plugin activated? I’d be happy to find the culprit and improve the plugin, if possible.

Thanks.

Danny

Hi Danny,

Thanks for your response.

I’ve tested again and I’m getting the same lower score with the plugin activated. The plugin looks great and I see there is only one extra request, that said, I trust Pingdom is seeing something I am not.

Links to two screenshots are below.

With plugin: https://salmonds.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/with.png

Without plugin: https://salmonds.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/without.png

Both tests were tested from Amsterdam.

(salmonds is a testing site)

Hopefully this proves helpful and it’s an easy fix.

Kind regards,

David

Hi David,

That’s quite a difference indeed. Definitely upped this on my priority list, will look into it and see what can be done about it.

As of now, I’m not sure what could be causing this. Connecting to your homepage and downloading the HTML actually gets done faster with the plugin activated. The screenshot also shows that requesting the css.php file (of my plugin) only takes a fraction of a second.

I’ll try to replicate your result and let you know what I find. Do you get the same results time after time?

The bottleneck seems to be the admin-bar.min.css file, but the strange thing is that that file actually loads faster without my plugin activated. Can you confirm that this happens all the time?

Happy Thanksgiving!

Danny