My Blog is Much Faster Now

I was checking out the Site Performance for my blog in Google Webmaster Tools (Google Webmaster Tools, Labs > Site Performance) a couple weeks ago, and I was horrified to see that it was taking 6.5 seconds to load on a good day, and upwards of 10 seconds on other days.
On the day I looked, my site was loading slower than 87% of sites. Not only was this a concern to me, since visitors were having a bad experience, but also Google doesn’t like it.

That’s right, a few weeks ago Google announced that speed matters.
I needed to fix this and fast.
I’d been thinking of switching over to the Thesis theme for my blog, since it’s strong on SEO. So, I touched base with the Chris Pearson (the guy behind Thesis) about people who could customize it for me.
I wanted to keep the general look of my blog, but […]

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