Just started a new gif blog about a month ago, and I've had feedback from others that the page load time can be high. Not sure if they just have dial-up or what, but I reduced the number of posts to show to 4.

Could you guys provide me feedback with the page load times, and any other feedback with issues with the blog. It's just a dumb blog full of older gifs that I like.

http://gifoftheday.blogspot.com/

Thanks

It is fairly slow but most of it is from the pics, though these are the slowest to load:

200 OK

bloggerschoiceawards.com

6 KB


1.36s


GET tech-fav-1.png
http://static.technorati.com/pix/fave/tech-fav-1.png

200 OK

static.technorati.com

2 KB


1.61s



GET icon18_wrench_allbkg.png
http://img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_wrench_allbkg.png

200 OK

img1.blogblog.com

475 B


1.31s



GET show_ads.js
http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js

200 OK

pagead2.googlesyndication.com

18 KB


1.57s

That's already 5-7 seconds right there by itself (depending on person's connection)

It is fairly slow but most of it is from the pics, though these are the slowest to load:

Thanks for the details...

Which places are the best to upload the gifs...been using imageshack for a majority of them? Is there a better alternative?

Your own hosting would be better, as imageshack and other free hosts do have a bandwidth limit per picture ;)

Keeping everything on one server will reduce the need for you to hit other servers. Granted, if your server is slow then you're stuffed

have a bandwidth limit per picture ;)



Yeah, those gif hit the limit pretty quick!