Lately I have noticed my website loading a little slower then normal so I did some investigating and found the culprit behind it.  It seems like Blog Catalog’s Javascript was really slowing down the website loading time. So I dropped them - I was not seeing the significant of traffic from them anyway.

The website was laid out to load the right side of the website before the left side really slowing down performance so I re-structured the website to load faster. It is amazing how the structure of the design can really increase and decrease performance.  Better performance usually results in better conversions.

Along with the new website structure I changed the tag cloud structure on the front page. Now keywords appear larger depending on how many advertisements are associated with that keyword. They are grouped by this number too.

That means keywords with more advertisements appear higher and bigger.