Comments on: 3 Quick and Simple Tricks to Speed Up WordPress http://www.followsteph.com/2009/01/07/3-quick-and-simple-tricks-to-speed-up-wordpress/ Follow Steph through his real estate and business journeys Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:02:53 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: The IT Juggler http://www.followsteph.com/2009/01/07/3-quick-and-simple-tricks-to-speed-up-wordpress/comment-page-1/#comment-94529 The IT Juggler Tue, 17 Feb 2009 11:23:26 +0000 http://www.followsteph.com/?p=869#comment-94529 Hi, This is a great article. I've been spending a bit of time trying to get the best performance out of my self-hosted Wordpress and found a great plugin that dropped load and render time. I've posted a blog about it here on http://itjuggler.ollis.id.au/2009/02/16/wordpress-on-speedy-wp/ Steve Hi,

This is a great article. I’ve been spending a bit of time trying to get the best performance out of my self-hosted Wordpress and found a great plugin that dropped load and render time. I’ve posted a blog about it here on http://itjuggler.ollis.id.au/2009/02/16/wordpress-on-speedy-wp/

Steve

]]> By: Steph http://www.followsteph.com/2009/01/07/3-quick-and-simple-tricks-to-speed-up-wordpress/comment-page-1/#comment-90563 Steph Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:02:44 +0000 http://www.followsteph.com/?p=869#comment-90563 Hi Mark, Thanks for filling in the advanced tips, at least what I consider advanced tips! Thank you :) Hi Mark,

Thanks for filling in the advanced tips, at least what I consider advanced tips!

Thank you :)

]]> By: Mark Gladding http://www.followsteph.com/2009/01/07/3-quick-and-simple-tricks-to-speed-up-wordpress/comment-page-1/#comment-90133 Mark Gladding Fri, 09 Jan 2009 11:21:59 +0000 http://www.followsteph.com/?p=869#comment-90133 One other way of reducing hits on your database is to use the SuperCache WordPress plugin. This will cache the output of your site and store the pages as html files. This not only avoids database overheads but also the overhead of PHP. It's smart enough to regenerate the cache whenever your content changes. It doesn't serve cached pages to registered users or users who have commented on your blog. This not really a problem as 99% of visitors don't fall into either of these categories. It works well when you get a surge of Digg readers. One extra benefit of SuperCache is that it gzips your pages to reduce the amount of data being transferred. The other thing I've done is to use a Content Delivery Network (CDN) to serve all the images on my site. This has a number of advantages. A good CDN will have multiple servers strategically placed around the world. When a visitor lands on your site, the closest physical server to that individual visitor is chosen to serve your content. This reduces latencies introduced by physical distance. It also means that your content is being served by at least two domains. Browsers limit the number of simultaneous requests they will make to a single domain. Having two domains doubles this number. I think the limit for IE6 & 7 is around 2. IE8, Firefox 3 and Google Chrome will make around 8 simultaneous requests to a single domain. I'm using www.cachefly.net for my site www.ebooksjustpublished.com. It's the only realistically priced CDN service I've found. Their entry level plan, which will be more than adequate for most blogs and web sites is $15 per month. One thing you should do before performance tuning your site is to do some measurements. The best tool I've found for this is the free Firefox plugin from Yahoo called YSlow (http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/). This not only measures your site performance and gives it a grade, it also gives you a list of suggestions on how to improve it's performance. I can't recommend this tool highly enough. It's the best thing to come out of Yahoo since Seth Godin! Having said all that my site went down the other day under a load spike. Talking to my hosting provider it seems the server received too many simultaneous requests, causing Apache to run out of memory, hit the VPS memory limit and end up being killed by some daemon. I guess that's the risk you take when running on a $10 plan with a 160MB VPS. Time to upgrade to their next level plan I think. What I'd really like is a plan that scales automatically to accommodate load spikes but only charges you for the resources you use. One other way of reducing hits on your database is to use the SuperCache WordPress plugin. This will cache the output of your site and store the pages as html files. This not only avoids database overheads but also the overhead of PHP. It’s smart enough to regenerate the cache whenever your content changes. It doesn’t serve cached pages to registered users or users who have commented on your blog. This not really a problem as 99% of visitors don’t fall into either of these categories. It works well when you get a surge of Digg readers. One extra benefit of SuperCache is that it gzips your pages to reduce the amount of data being transferred.
The other thing I’ve done is to use a Content Delivery Network (CDN) to serve all the images on my site. This has a number of advantages. A good CDN will have multiple servers strategically placed around the world. When a visitor lands on your site, the closest physical server to that individual visitor is chosen to serve your content. This reduces latencies introduced by physical distance.
It also means that your content is being served by at least two domains. Browsers limit the number of simultaneous requests they will make to a single domain. Having two domains doubles this number. I think the limit for IE6 & 7 is around 2. IE8, Firefox 3 and Google Chrome will make around 8 simultaneous requests to a single domain.
I’m using http://www.cachefly.net for my site http://www.ebooksjustpublished.com. It’s the only realistically priced CDN service I’ve found. Their entry level plan, which will be more than adequate for most blogs and web sites is $15 per month.
One thing you should do before performance tuning your site is to do some measurements. The best tool I’ve found for this is the free Firefox plugin from Yahoo called YSlow (http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/). This not only measures your site performance and gives it a grade, it also gives you a list of suggestions on how to improve it’s performance. I can’t recommend this tool highly enough. It’s the best thing to come out of Yahoo since Seth Godin!
Having said all that my site went down the other day under a load spike. Talking to my hosting provider it seems the server received too many simultaneous requests, causing Apache to run out of memory, hit the VPS memory limit and end up being killed by some daemon. I guess that’s the risk you take when running on a $10 plan with a 160MB VPS. Time to upgrade to their next level plan I think. What I’d really like is a plan that scales automatically to accommodate load spikes but only charges you for the resources you use.

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