I stumbled across a pretty cool tool that does a complete diagnosis of your blog. My friend and SEO guru sent me the link, and I thought it would be great to share with everyone. All you have to do is enter your blog URL and (IsMyBlogWorking) does the rest. The report takes less than 30 seconds depending on your internet connection.
The tool reports on the following details:
- Your web server
- Your RSS feed
- If your blog is indexed by Google
- If your blog application is supported gzip compression
- If your blog supports client caching
- If WP Super Cache is active
- If your feed supports caching
- If your blog is a self-hosted WordPress blog
More details:
- Web hosting company
- Server support link
- Server hostname
There are so many details that you may find boring, but hey, it’s worth checking if your blog is working well.
Visit http://ismyblogworking.com and give it a try.
Hey Frank, cool resource. I ran my blog through it and here’s the results. Checked the feed and didn’t find a problem. What’s gzip compression?
The important stuff:
* Your web server is working fine.
* An unexpected error occurred trying to fetch your RSS Feed.
* Your blog is indexed by Google.
* Your blog seems slow. It took 1.12 seconds to generate the page.
* Your blog application doesn’t support gzip compression.
* Your blog supports client caching (304 response).
Nice tool. Mine only had issues with:
* Your blog seems slow. It took 2.33 seconds to generate the page.
* Your blog application doesn’t support gzip compression.
* Your blog supports client caching (304 response).
The first one is definitely a concern, but should I worry about the other two?
~ Kristi
Kristi,
I checked yours and saw the same thing. You may want to clean up your header template by removing unnecessary PHP calls. The blog title, RSS feed, etc can be static and improve page loads.
Well people we are using WordPress, it’s only natural we are slow :) Some are quick-slow, some are slow-slow and some are dead-slow but we are all slow… I guess we trade in loading/rendering time for flexibility/elegance etc. We all know the deal… Nice tool by the way, really helpful!
Nice tool. Mine only had issues with:
* Your blog seems slow. It took 2.33 seconds to generate the page.
Jacque,
That could be an issue with all the unnecessary php calls in your header template. This applies if you have a WordPress blog.