The site is still slow, but at least it's a start.
There are still quite a few external scripts loading in the head that have the potential to block the page. The waterfall diagram from a test at webpagetest.org [1] shows a pretty dramatic example. It's not hard to load the Google PlusOne script async [2], and most of the other social network widgets can be lazy-loaded the same way.
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The site is still slow, but at least it's a start.
There are still quite a few external scripts loading in the head that have the potential to block the page. The waterfall diagram from a test at webpagetest.org [1] shows a pretty dramatic example. It's not hard to load the Google PlusOne script async [2], and most of the other social network widgets can be lazy-loaded the same way.
[1] http://i.imgur.com/niDK1.png http://i.imgur.com/MLdj8.png [2] https://developers.google.com/+/plugins/+1button/#async-load