
Here are the latest updates:
- Switching from Google’s Content Delivery Network to CloudFlare’s CDN for jQuery libraries. This reduces the time it takes to load these libraries into browsers.
- Combined <link> tags for Google Fonts to improve performance.
- Reordered our HEAD script block to optimize performance.
- Load the AddThis share components after the page has loaded. We will likely replace these in the coming days to further optimize performance.
- Updated Facebook to load asynchronously.
- Cleaning up old CSS from our CSS files to decrease load size on each page by 20-25%.
- Moved some database queries from the main database to a shard.
These, combined with other improvements have dropped our average page load time