International Blog Performance with GT Translate

This is a really useful plugin in that allows non English readers to enjoy your blog in their natural language.

It has a few settings and of these I would stick to the following.

Use On Fly (jquery) as the translation method, I found that Google translate does not work correctly on my blackberry phone, the screen is heavily corrupted, however using On Fly the new language is displayed instantly, plus this option comes with a choice of nation flags.

Do a little research in Google Analytics and determine which countries your visitors are coming from, then set these countries as your defaults, a simple but nice touch…

Now a word of caution


Comment Luv Premium a Worthy Investment

The CommentLuv Plugin I spent far too long dithering over whether to get this plugin or not as I already used the free version and could not see the benefit in paying just to combine a number of plugins. If there was a site load benefit then I would be interested but when Andy highlighted all of the other features I was sold and knew I had to get this plugin.

I do not regret making that decision

But what of the speed, did that improve?

I was  unable to measure the difference in load time fairly due to there being far too many factors that influence this. I do not have a private and dedicated Internet connection in my town for just my use thus other residents in this house street and across the world will all play a factor in that timing. But what of the Plugin how does it look?