Re: Glory be! The new Danley website is up
Ivan,
The new site looks much better! Below are some tips for improving Wordpress performance that your design house may not be familiar with.
Wordpress is a database pig, it makes a gagillion calls to the backend database on virtually every page pull. You should have your guys at Red Clay Interactive investigate enabling a Wordpress caching plugin, either WP Super Cache or W3 Total Cache (my choice). Also there is a plugin called "use google libraries" which will reduce the amount of javascript pulled from your server side, instead loading jquery from Google's machines.
On your Rackspace side, the HTTP server daemon should utilize gzip, set a caching header, and possibly a keep-alive, depending on your HTTP platform. Your page speed score will increase significantly from these steps, and that can improve your SEO.
If your server-side hosting is a shared config, you should set W3 total cache to use disk caching. If it a VPS-type environment, you should spool up memcache and use that for caching. If you have a VPS, you should also use some sort of PHP opcode caching, like APC or Xcache.
Those bits will speed up the site for you.
