Trying to figure out how to not have my site load incredibly slowly.

A couple of things:
In my last site update, I made the Twitter feed on the right no longer load via JavaScript and tried to get it via PHP. Doing this meant that the entire page would load completely (w/ Twitter) all at once as opposed to having the page load but occasionally not having the Twitter load (because sometimes JavaScript hangs and doesn’t complete loading for a long time).

Anyways…I think what happened was the PHP wouldn’t load Twitter either, and thus, the whole site would load. EPIC FAIL.

I’ve changed it up now so the Twitter is retrieved client side again…but this time using AJAX. If the feed doesn’t load, you’ll just see that damn loading image…
On a plus note, it’s working. Also, the tweets are recent, and not cached (which they used to be when they were loaded via PHP and inside the JavaScript (because the JavaScript would cache).

I’m considering doing it for the Blog feeds, so I don’t have to use WordPress…but as I tried tonight, I ran into some execution problems (namely, multiple AJAX requests only seemed to load the most recently called…)

Anyways, will work more over the weekend, hopefully :)

Also, high considering moving all the content to worldofwarren.com, and warrenshea.com because my professional, one theme’d site.

Also highly considering moving all the content to worldofwarren.com, and have warrenshea.com become my professional, one theme’d site.

Might explore this over the weekend.