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I posted earlier about my attempts to improve my site rendering speed by upgrading my blog server’s RAM. As I noted in that post, it didn’t seem like the changes made much if any difference to the rendering speed in the Safari browser.

After much experimentation, I can hereby clarify/correct all of my previous observations and guesses. The rendering speed problem is not related to my server’s RAM nor is it the fault of the Safari web browser. Instead, my site renders slowly for me because I am logged in as the WordPress administrator for the site.

Boy, do I feel dumb now. Allow me to explain in order to hopefully prevent you from feeling dumb as well.

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Blog web server upgrade

I have completed a simple upgrade to the little box that serves my blogs. I have increased its RAM from 16 gigabytes to 64 gigabytes.

I had observed some page loading slow-downs under some conditions recently. My quick review gave me the idea that some of the blogs processes might be a bit starved for memory. Too much of the system’s work seemed to be regularly swapped to virtual memory swap (SSD), a condition generally to be avoided.

The change in memory capacity and process configuration seems to have made the blogs a bit more responsive. However, it appears that most of the slow rendering I’ve noted relates more to Safari behaviour with the content of the site than with any shortcomings of my server hardware.

I’ve included some more detail below the ‘Read More’ fold for those who are interested.

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