Improve CommentLuv Performance

CommentLuv is a handy new plugin that can improve your blog’s popularity by automatically drawing from a commentor’s feed to include their link next to their comment.  CommentLuv claims to increase comments and traffic to blogs and their commentators, so it is worth experimenting with on your blog. You can register your blog with CommentLuv to view stats related to the plugin, and confirm whether it is worth keeping on your site.

However, CommentLuv stops looking for your feed after 3 seconds, so if you’re trying to include your link on someone else’s page through a comment, you must check to make sure your page loads quickly enough.

Without getting too technical for the beginner blogger, images, flash video, and third-party javascript can play a major role in increasing your load time.  Although they’re fun and add interest, you might need to cut some out in order to make sure your site takes advantage of services like CommentLuv, which really can boost your online visibility.  What use are cool third-party widgets if they actively prevent people from visiting your site?

Here are some useful articles about optimizing your WordPress blog’s load time, including some simple tips and some more technical:

From Paul Stamatiou
From ProBlogger
From Aniquito.com