This is somewhat unrelated but its multiple parts.

1) Chris gave me a great site speed analyzer like 3 years ago, that cut up each part and analyzed each section.... anyone know what the good equivalent of that is today?

2) I'm working on a new wordpress site, or a re-design of an old one, but actually doing alot of code work and one extension I added drastically increased my page load time... from quick to like 30 seconds at some times, or forever... and its a simple script so i don't understand. ANYWAYS, I use the super cache plugin also, and when I turn that on I can cut those load times down... I just want you guys to tell me the downside of that.

3) That same script supposedly is creating thumnails and saving them in my uploads/pth directory. however when I ftp to to that directory I don't get any files.. its completely blank. The source url of the images also points to that directory. Can you guys take a look at this page and tell me if you see those thumbnails coming from anywhere else?

the url is : http://www.bucketofawesome.com/category/pictures/ and its all those thumbnails in the left side (except not the chick pics)

i would be much obliged.

I got
/wp-content/uploads/pth/thumb-4723-image.jpg

If there is no actual thumb in wp-content/uplods/pth/ check your htaccess files in case wordpress is using rewrite rules to load them from somewhere else. Also, if you are not root, it is possible that wordpress is saving the thumbnails so that they are owned by the webserver (either user apache, or nobody) . You may not be able to list files owned by the webserver when logged in as yourself depending on the server configuration

my .htaccess



does that tell you anything? i searched all my directories for that thumb img and found squat.

That htaccess is just a redirect for any requests to files or directories that don't exist, so its very unlikely that index.php is generating the thumbnail on every request but possible.

Actually I just looked up some thumbnails in wordpress, and it is quite possible that index.php is creating the thumbnail image on the fly.

The other more likely reason is what I mentioned above. It depends on the server setup, but php is often run by the webserver so any of your php scripts get run under the webservers user (usually apache or nobody). If the thumbnail files were created by the webserver you might not have permission to view them, in which case you can only interact with them through other scripts or as a root user.

mocker thanks, its temporarily this week on the back burner but i'm gonna look into trying to get root access to see if its there.