But there is a lot more to it than that. Background scripts take a lot of time to load, especially some of the java based ones. The quantity of small images affect load time. Compression and caching affect load time. All in all, it's been interesting.
The current look is very fast, comparatively speaking. I could drop the video and get about a 30% throughput increase but the footprint is already so small that I don't think I will. Obviously this mostly affects dialup users but even broadband users will click away if it takes too long to load.
Still using Joomla!, which is now at version 1.5.8. I changed servers from a VPS hosted solution in California to a dedicated one in Chicago. Huge increase in throughput but it did take some time to set up correctly. I'm using CentOS 5.2 on that server because it is very, very stable. I have another server that I'm running Ubuntu 8.04 64-bit on. There is a good throughput increase with the 64-bit system but it isn't quite as stable.
I've got all kinds of systems running now. In addition to the two servers and the VPS (also running CentOS), I have a laptop running Ubuntu Ultimate 2.0 64-bit, a laptop running Ubuntu 8.04 32-bit, my home destop running Windows Vista, another desktop running Ubuntu 8.04 32-bit and this machine, a powerful machine with an Intel quad-core running Fedora 10 with virtual machines of WinXP, Debian 4.0, Ubuntu 8.1, SUSE 11.1 and Linux Mint.
Maybe someday, I'll know what I'm doing!
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