Need Your Comments On My New Blog Theme

Hey,

The loading takes some time over here man. About 10 seconds. I'm from Malaysia so I don't know about other places.

I think the theme looks great.

Hey Alvin

Hows things?...

I like the tweaked theme.. is it Atomic 3.0?.. 3.1?

It loaded quite slowly here (Browser: Chrome).. but it looks and feels great once it loads..

Smooth!

Peace

Jay

looks great I like it, took me about 15 seconds to load it completely.

Hi Alvin,

Took me about 15 seconds to completely load the blog..
once loaded, it looks fresh and neat.. =)

And I added your link in my blog.

Cheers,
John

My target for average load time per visitor is about 30 seconds.. so let me know only if it takes more then 30 secs and which country you are from

Hey Alvin..

11 seconds exactly.. I'm in the UK

Shame you're not releasing it... looks very flexible and crisp!

Peace

Jay

It took about 30 seconds to load for me... over all the site design is clean and crisp.

Modem speed: Download time:
14.4k 445.53 seconds
28.8k 240.74 seconds
56k 140.31 seconds
ISDN (128k) 82.05 seconds
T1 (1.44 MB) 40.21 seconds

You could say this is slower then slow in Vancouver, Canada!

Hi Alvin!

Really looks good, looks like more open space then the previous one. It took about 10 seconds to completely load. I like the Gallery. You have come a long way in such a short time, this should be a lesson for all the Newbies or fence sitters out there! Have a good one!

You did a very nice job on the design side .... Now you need to improve the loading time.
Best Wishes!

I like it a lot! It gives me something to aspire to.

Alvin,

Wow! I'm jealous, I wish I could create a blog that complete. The page did load a bit slow, but I am in a hotel in Philadelphia, so it just might be the connection. I love the personal touches that are present. However, the "above the fold" is very busy and distracting to me. I'm not clear on what the objective is. However, once I got past all of the info at the top of the page, the content is very good and encouraging. Overall, a really nice job. Keep tweaking it and you are for sure on your way to success!

Here are the download times for various connection speeds.

Connection Rate Download Time
14.4K 706.80 seconds
28.8K 364.90 seconds
33.6K 316.06 seconds
56K 198.84 seconds
ISDN 128K 76.85 seconds
T1 1.44Mbps 27.67 seconds

I got the info from here, which is a good checker Web Page Analyzer - free website optimization tool website speed test check website performance report from web site optimization


It's way too slow. I think I know why. Index of /wp-content/plugins

Way too many plugins and your page is almost a megabyte in size - 800+k. Way to big. Your ISP must hate you for the resource load. I hope all the plugins aren't enabled.

BTW create a blank file named index.html and drop it in the plugins directory, that way some hacker can't see all the plugins you are running. Plugins are a big attack vector for wordpress. Best not to show them all so the hacker can compare to a list of known ones with exploits.

Sadly the site looks nice, but you won't get any visitors that stay the way it is now.

I've read that you've got 8 seconds to get a usable portion of the page loaded for the visitor to stay or they'll click away. That means get them something to read. Graphics can fill in later, but they need content to read.

Took quite a while to load the blog (I am using Safari). The layout looks pretty good, though maybe a little busy in the top left (for my taste as a reader). However that is the hot spot, so I imagine you do pretty well with opt-ins. Nice job.

loading took some time. Do you use WP cacheing plugin? Might speed-up loading times? I like the theme...nice and clean.

cool site!

Took about 15 seconds to load for me. I have a relatively fast broadband connection.

Great design but somewhat crowded. Only my humble opinion though.

It does load slow and although it DOES look fresh
it seems to be quite overloaded with "stuff" - eg.
makes me feel a bit confused.

Looks very nice - took me about 20-25 seconds to fully load.

Took about 30 seconds from Australia - Firefox and broadband connection.

Looks very professional, it's a very nice layout and design.

Suggestion for improvement would be do away with flashing ads - they are more annoying than attention grabbing. My coping mechanism is to ignore them as they are overwhelming. I'm not going to want to read them because they hurt to read.

Thanks guys for your input helps to optimized my blog better.. will be making some minor changes later on

definitely slow loading for me. i would just close the window. hahaha. yeah i can be impatient.

and i just find your blog very messy. so many things everywhere. when i'm there at your blog i feel so distracted with so many ads and features all over. dun really like it. But if it makes lotsa money for you then just keep doing it.