CMS Critic now powered by ProcessWire

[Mike Rockett]

@cmscritic - That's excellent news indeed. I've noticed that requests are taking a really long time to process, however. For example, requesting an old URL (cmscritic.com/grav/) just loads forever. As does search... Any ideas what could be causing that?

[cmscritic]

27 minutes ago, Mike Rockett said:

@cmscritic - That's excellent news indeed. I've noticed that requests are taking a really long time to process, however. For example, requesting an old URL (cmscritic.com/grav/) just loads forever. As does search... Any ideas what could be causing that?

I'm of course dealing with server load issues at the moment. I'm speaking with my host now.

[Mike Rockett]

@cmscritic - Ah, that explains it. Glad to see the site back on PW.

[adrian]

Great to hear. I have restored your listing on the sites page: http://processwire.com/about/sites/list/cms-critic/

@Jonathan Lahijani - if you want to send me the details you want entered in the Made By section, I'll update that too!

[szabesz]

3 hours ago, cmscritic said:

HUGE thanks to @Jonathan Lahijani for doing such an amazing job. 

So that is why he did not have time to release his video tutorials?  Never mind, at least cmscritic.com is back to normal. Thanks for reporting!

[cmscritic]

On 8/31/2016 at 10:25 AM, adrian said:

Great to hear. I have restored your listing on the sites page: http://processwire.com/about/sites/list/cms-critic/

@Jonathan Lahijani - if you want to send me the details you want entered in the Made By section, I'll update that too!

Thanks Adrian,

It would be great if we could update the screenshot as it's outdated. Thanks!

[adrian]

I have updated the screenshot and added in Jonathan's details - I have kept Ryan in there as well because he did the initial coding which I think formed the basis for what Jonathan worked from. Hopefully that's all ok.

[OrganizedFellow]

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Grade D, 10.29 seconds load time, 3.5 MB page size, and 206 (!!) requests.

If that's the performance of CMS Critic when it was running WordPress, I would like to know what's the performance like now that you are back on ProcessWire?!

 

[adrian]

https://gtmetrix.com/reports/cmscritic.com/IHjrEiKy

The page load is substantially quicker (3.2s) and there are a lot less requests (61), but the score is still a D due to a few things which should be easy fixes, and are not PW related. The page is still 2.5MB, but again, not a PW issue.

[Craig]

24 minutes ago, OrganizedFellow said:

If that's the performance of CMS Critic when it was running WordPress, I would like to know what's the performance like now that you are back on ProcessWire?!

WordPress: Grade D 65, 10.29 seconds load time, 3.5 MB page size, and 206 (!!) requests (URL)

ProcessWire: Grade A 93, 1.73 seconds load time, 2.5 MB page size, and 70 requests (URL)

(Using the same service and location)

Good work

[adrian]

8 minutes ago, Craig A Rodway said:

(Using the same service and location)

Thanks - I wasn't sure what was used (I should have looked at your previous post)  - I always use gtmetrix so just went with that.

[Craig]

12 minutes ago, adrian said:

Thanks - I wasn't sure what was used (I should have looked at your previous post)  - I always use gtmetrix so just went with that.

Same, but just with Pingdom

It's interesting to see the subtle differences between the services, and the gradings they come up with.

[cmscritic]

1 hour ago, Craig A Rodway said:

WordPress: Grade D 65, 10.29 seconds load time, 3.5 MB page size, and 206 (!!) requests (URL)

ProcessWire: Grade A 93, 1.73 seconds load time, 2.5 MB page size, and 70 requests (URL)

(Using the same service and location)

Good work

Thank goodness. I almost had a heart attack when I saw a grade d. Glad to be back, so much quicker.

[apeisa]

It is pretty fast for me (Finland). Very crisp and clean designs, even with all the ads! Nice work @Jonathan Lahijani and @cmscritic!

[cmscritic]

5 minutes ago, apeisa said:

It is pretty fast for me (Finland). Very crisp and clean designs, even with all the ads! Nice work @Jonathan Lahijani and @cmscritic!

It's what I do for a living so.. gotta pay the bills

[Pete]

Nice work @Jonathan Lahijani and @cmscritic - glad you're back on ProcessWire and WOW the site loads fast now!

[Jonathan Lahijani]

A note about speed... we switched the hosting from ServInt to KnownHost a couple days ago and now the site is fast... like scary fast.  (note: the WordPress site was neither on ServInt or KnownHost, but rather a WP managed hosting provider which one would expect to have decent speed)

[szabesz]

I can confirm that it's speedy indeed

BTW: while browsing, I spotted a 404: https://www.cmscritic.com/directory/cms/ linked from https://www.cmscritic.com/how-to-select-the-best-open-source-cms/

[diogo]

14 minutes ago, szabesz said:

linked from https://www.cmscritic.com/how-to-select-the-best-open-source-cms/

The whole text of that page should be "see footer"

[cmscritic]

58 minutes ago, szabesz said:

I can confirm that it's speedy indeed

BTW: while browsing, I spotted a 404: https://www.cmscritic.com/directory/cms/ linked from https://www.cmscritic.com/how-to-select-the-best-open-source-cms/

Fixed thanks

[dragan]

Just visited cmscritic.com again after a while (I'm subscribed to their newsletter).

Apparently, they switched again to Wordpress (everything points to that, when opening browser inspector and seeing their HTML, the usual wp-xxx folders and file naming).

Does anybody know the reason why? @ryan Were they unhappy with PW in some sort?

oops, I kinda double-posted - didn't see a similar post from just 15 minutes ago...

Edited March 18, 2018 by dragan
right after posting this I just saw a similar question in another thread...

[heldercervantes]

On 3/18/2018 at 7:54 PM, dragan said:

Apparently, they switched again to Wordpress

Yup. Add /wp-admin to the URL and you're in the login screen.

They made some design changes. Maybe whoever did it was more comfortable in WP?

[maxf5]

Welcome to ******** webdevelopment 2018: Buy a theme for 59$ and change the logo and a few colors
https://demo.tagdiv.com/newspaper/

Edited March 24, 2018 by kongondo
Some impolite language removed by moderator.

[cmscritic]

11 hours ago, maxf5 said:

Welcome to ******* webdevelopment 2018: Buy a theme for 59$ and change the logo and a few colors
https://demo.tagdiv.com/newspaper/

Yep, makes implementing websites a hell of a lot easier. If you don't like it, that's your choice. I don't appreciate your use of the term "gay" as something terrible or wrong. My brother happens to be gay and your opinion may have had value if you hadn't showed your hand and made such an ignorant reference.

[maxf5]

3 minutes ago, cmscritic said:

Yep, makes implementing websites a hell of a lot easier. If you don't like it, that's your choice. I don't appreciate your use of the term "gay" as something terrible or wrong. My brother happens to be gay and your opinion may have had value if you hadn't showed your hand and made such an ignorant reference.

When you 're lucky and happy with your WP blog for your needs, it's okay. This shouldn't be an offence against gay people. They were always my favorite singers (Little Richard, Rob Halford, Freddie Mercury,.. ).  I just have an antipathy for everything wp related.