How to make wordpress site faster

by Nickro

Posted: 12 years ago 19 replies

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Hello guys , does anyone know how to speed up a wordpress website? self-hosted .
All i can do is to install Cache plugin? or is there something else ?

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fin 12 years ago

How I Cut My Page Load Speed by 90% Using Jetpack, CDN, Dedicated Hosting, And A Little Plugin Discrimination
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- sriram rajan 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by fin
  
  How I Cut My Page Load Speed by 90% Using Jetpack, CDN, Dedicated Hosting, And A Little Plugin Discrimination
  
  Thanks for the response ..
  
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NeverStop 12 years ago

There's a lot of info to be found on google about this:

15 Easy Ways To Speed Up WordPress: Why Slow Page Load Equals Slow Blog Growth

http://mashable.com/2010/07/19/speed-up-wordpress/

How to Speed Up Wordpress - The Ultimate Step-by-Step Guide

Hope that helps
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Abledragon 12 years ago

Here are two articles I've written on speeding up WordPress page-load times:

Website Speed Test: 9 Ways to Improve Your Result | WealthyDragon

... and:

Make Site Load More Quickly | WealthyDragon

Hope they're helpful,

Cheers,

Martin.
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UMS 12 years ago

Two easy and simple ways to improve your speed is:

1. Install a caching plugin, eg: W3TC or WP Super-Cache
2. Create a free CloudFlare account for your site/s.
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- thegirlofday 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by UMS
  
  Two easy and simple ways to improve your speed is:
  
  1. Install a caching plugin, eg: W3TC or WP Super-Cache
  2. Create a free CloudFlare account for your site/s.
  
  I heard W3TC is a great plugin, but I didn't succeed in using it, the loadiong speed just wouldn't increase no matter what I tried
  
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damoncloudflare 12 years ago

Originally Posted by Nickro

Hello guys , does anyone know how to speed up a wordpress website? self-hosted .
All i can do is to install Cache plugin? or is there something else ?

Have you tried running a test on something like Pingdom or Webpagetest.org to see what's potentially causing issues on your site?
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Haskell1 12 years ago

Check, and fix, your image sizes. especially if you have quite a few or some large ones on certain pages.
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MarkBradley 12 years ago

Smaller header graphics size, and test the site after installing new plugins.

I use: Pingdom Tools quick testing.
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- Kingfish85 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by UMS
  
  Two easy and simple ways to improve your speed is:
  
  1. Install a caching plugin, eg: W3TC or WP Super-Cache
  2. Create a free CloudFlare account for your site/s.
  
  Originally Posted by thegirlofday
  
  I heard W3TC is a great plugin, but I didn't succeed in using it, the loadiong speed just wouldn't increase no matter what I tried
  
  These are good points.
  
  Use Super Cache in conjunction with CloudFlare. If your web host is a CloudFlare partner, they will have it integrated already, you just need to enable it.
  
  You may also need to look into your web hosting situation. Typically "unlimited" web hosting is overloaded and poor performing.
  
  The quality of your hosting environment will play a HUGE part in this.
  
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webtolight 12 years ago

Just my simple and quick response off the top of my head.

Maybe installing too many plugins or the design optimization isn't that great. It could other factors with the server and etc...

Some guys above of me have given out some nice articles to get more informed..
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MarketingManUK 12 years ago

....yup too many, too large images can cause huge performance issues!

But do agree that just as important is getting hosting that is reliable and using a free web-monitoring service which will alert you to any performance issues - or in worst case scenario let you know when your site has gone down. Pingdom and Monitor.us pretty good, but also check out statuscake.com which allows you to monitor unlimited websites - checking every 5 mins for uptime from 5 countries around the world.

Good luck - hope everyone's tips helped!
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faisalmaximus 12 years ago

From my own experience a simple idea, don't use too much plugins & too many images which takes longer time to load.
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mattysaff 12 years ago

If you looking to make faster your Wordpress site, try compressing your site’s code and minimum use of plugins in site.
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marktwins 12 years ago

Wordpress total cache plugin is good if you want to speed up your blog, also try to use light weight theme. if you also use lot of plugins will slow down your site, use only few important plugins to maintain good speed.
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CyberSEO 12 years ago

WP Super-Cache is enough in 99% cases. If it's not, there are really radical solutions like WordPress › Really Static « WordPress Plugins
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BreezeHost 12 years ago

If you run your wordpress site on shared server then you need to useW3TC and Memcashed plugin for make faster your site as well as optimize your wordpress db it will also plus point for this
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Imogene 12 years ago

It also depends on themes and plugins, some themes are light and they can give SEO benefit too, using too many plugins would also make your site load slower.
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- Bryan 12 years ago
  
  In addition to using a cache plugin like the ones recommended so far, you can use the Smush It plugin to optimize your pictures.
  
  You should know that it automatically optimizes new pics added but after installing and activating it on an older site with existing pics, you'll have to go to media >> Bulk Smush it >> click button to go through and optimize/"smush" all the pictures in your media library.
  
  When it's completed you'll see the percentage that it is able to reduce each picture file size.
  
  WP-Optimize is a great plugin that can help with increasing speed because it will help it run more efficiently. It can do all of the following:
  
  -Remove all Post revisions
  -Remove all auto draft posts
  -Clean marked Spam comments
  -Clean Unapproved comments
  -Optimize database tables
  
  You just need to check the boxes beside each option you want it to include and then click the "Process" button.
  
  After it has processed, scroll down and you'll be able to see the results. It's an impressive plugin.
  
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