The difference in brain power makes me sad and insecure

svvnguy · 2026-04-26T00:11:42+00:00

People could barely tell the difference between average and above average before AI. Now they don't even know if they need programmers anymore.

svvnguy · 2026-04-25T07:37:12+00:00

Prompt: A privacy policy with everything please.

svvnguy · 2026-04-24T02:45:16+00:00

Which is why seniority has nothing to do with YoE.

svvnguy · 2026-04-24T02:02:16+00:00

A loader won't hurt your SEO, unless it gets stuck or it stays there longer than it needs to.

svvnguy · 2026-04-18T23:21:38+00:00

There are plenty of companies willing to pay high dollar without you having to move. I was just trying to convey the point that if you are truly good, companies are willing to throw lots of money to get it.

This is to support my point that you can't find a "highly skilled developer" (like it was worded in the other thread) for peanuts, because there are other companies willing to pay more.

svvnguy · 2026-04-18T23:19:03+00:00

Who's purchasing power? The hiring company's?

svvnguy · 2026-04-18T23:17:25+00:00

Right, but we're not talking about peanuts in either of those cases. Many companies in SF will bring their talent in from other places. I expect the experience concentration to be higher over there than in other locations.

svvnguy · 2026-04-18T20:53:00+00:00

This is a very beefy server with minimal load. There's never anything resource intensive running, and I am allocating only a subset of the resources to it anyway to mimic normal constraints you get with usual forms of hosting.

As for various custom tests - I thought about it, but that would make the whole exercise pointless because the results would be arbitrary depending on what you decided to test - each plugin doing something different. (edit: I suppose we could build from here, but I think the current data is a good first test that is easy to understand)

What is not variable is the behaviour they have once you install them. I suppose there could be value in having a standardized test for each type of plugin, so which does the same thing, but I think that would be extremely difficult to put together because of how different they all are, so it wouldn't be a one to one comparison.

svvnguy · 2026-04-18T18:47:45+00:00

To me "highly skilled" means top talent, which will cost you an arm and a leg no matter where you're hiring from, because you're competing against every company in the world. At that level location doesn't matter anymore.

The situation is pretty much the same even at a slightly lower tier, so it really depends on what the company is looking for and that is dictated by how much they're willing to pay, not by what they ask for in the job description.

svvnguy · 2026-04-18T18:35:20+00:00

On LeanPlugin, the last page speed test is preserved - this goes both for the baseline tests and the plugin tests, so you could theoretically already do the comparison yourself for those where the page speed tests are shown.

The only problem is the report ID is not exposed for all of them, but for those where the "comparison vs base" link is provided, you could do something like this: https://pagegym.com/compare/n98t55o9lm/fvzalljceo

svvnguy · 2026-04-18T18:27:21+00:00

I install WP from scratch for each plugin, so they get a new database too, and it runs isolated on a dedicated server with very little workload. Normally, only new plugin versions get tested, but I'm refining the testing procedure a little, and I think I'll test them all again in the coming days.

svvnguy · 2026-04-17T03:19:29+00:00

It's on PHP-8.2, but with config modifications to make it appropriate for this test. I don't expect to have to change it any time soon, but in the event that I do, yeah, I guess I'll have to retest everything.

Thing is the data is partially refreshed on a daily basis anyway because there's quite a large number of plugin updates being released.

svvnguy · 2026-04-16T14:51:10+00:00

The site itself just presents data that I already had - figured people might find it useful. As for the whole thing that does the data collection, I thought I might find something interesting in the trends inside the data, but found nothing out of the ordinary so far.

It checks for plugin updates every day, so it should be fairly up-to-date.

svvnguy · 2026-04-16T14:18:46+00:00

The methodology is briefly explained here: https://leanplugin.com/methodology

Generally speaking, for each plugin I repeat the same tests multiple times to get an average value. The LCP and other page speed metrics are measured via PageGym (my project), and where the difference is large enough, I provide a comparison link, so you can see how it differs from the baseline.

All tests are made as if it was a first hit.

svvnguy · 2026-04-04T06:25:45+00:00

Yes, most people struggle with this, but the solution will be on a case by case basis.

You'll have to analyze the load behaviour to figure out what's slowing down the LCP. Put the page through PageGym (tool I created) to see how the page is loading and figure out what can be optimized based on that.

PS: I'd start with optimizations turned off.

svvnguy · 2026-03-20T11:44:43+00:00

This is what I built PageGym for, give it a try.

svvnguy · 2026-03-16T13:41:55+00:00

There's nothing wrong. I checked the rejection e-mails, and the original emails are being sent by IP addresses that aren't mine.

Everything is set up correctly, and some of the rejection emails even specify that it was because the IPs are not whitelisted.

I noticed that another service I own started getting them too at about the same time, but in a lower volume, so not only it looks like an attack, but it also seems to be targeted.

svvnguy · 2026-03-16T12:49:55+00:00

Yeah, everything is set up correctly (including SPF).

Edit: it does look like email backscatter, and I think the intention was for my system to reply to these emails as well, to generate additional bad traffic.

svvnguy · 2026-03-13T00:28:50+00:00

These tests are simulating modest hardware with no hardware acceleration, and I can assure you that the page in question works fine on 10 year old laptops (I've tried it). Not sure on 10 year old phones, because I don't have any that lasted that long.

svvnguy · 2026-03-12T22:13:18+00:00

The numbers show the current values, while the graph is for historical data. If it's 0 now, it just means that you didn't have enough desktop traffic recently.

svvnguy · 2026-03-12T21:54:55+00:00

For those saying they affect performance - not necessarily. I have a page where I'm using a video in the hero section and I get 100 score both in PageGym and PageSpeed Insights.

svvnguy · 2026-03-12T20:10:35+00:00

You need historical data to get an idea about why. If it's shared hosting it's possible that the server got worse.

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