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What are the Best Plugins/Practices for a faster website [Better Loading Time] ?

by nicolas simpson
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Hello guys, i have been away from the forum in a while because of my new endeavor, never the less i must attribute at least 70% of the knowledge i have now with regards to marketing online to what i have learn here, with that said i always value suggestions/advises given on this forum.

With regards to my new endeavor i recently created a entertainment website as you can understand a website like this usually got a lot of pics/videos/audio emebed which will cause it to load slow. This is my problem i've heard that increasing "load speed" will help websites in many ways such as user experience, SEO rankings etc.

I must add that i recently had problem with my hosting(was down) because the website was using up too much CPU. Thus getting my website to use less CPU/Bandwidth as since been a priority.

To check out the actual loading speed you can see website link below. Otherwise just leave your suggestion(s) for better loading time.

Thanks in advance.

YardHype | Dancehall | Reggae | Entertainment
#faster #loading #plugins #plugins or practices #speed #time #website
  • Profile picture of the author aritrim
    One thing I can suggest you, use Amazon S3 for storage of your images, videos, audios. That will bring down your hosting server load by 50% if not more. Amazon S3 is economic too.
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    • Profile picture of the author nicolas simpson
      Originally Posted by aritrim View Post

      One thing I can suggest you, use Amazon S3 for storage of your images, videos, audios. That will bring down your hosting server load by 50% if not more. Amazon S3 is economic too.
      Thanks for your suggestion, I have heard about "Amazon S3" before. Maybe its time to go check it out.
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    • Profile picture of the author James Gould
      Originally Posted by aritrim View Post

      One thing I can suggest you, use Amazon S3 for storage of your images, videos, audios. That will bring down your hosting server load by 50% if not more. Amazon S3 is economic too.
      Do you have a link for a tutorial with S3? I've been trying to combine it with Wordpress to host my images for affiliate sites so I can add in more eye catching stuff, but I can't see any tutorials what suit what I need.

      Thanks!

      EDIT: Nevermind, post above me has the information...
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    • Profile picture of the author aizaku
      Originally Posted by aritrim View Post

      One thing I can suggest you, use Amazon S3 for storage of your images, videos, audios. That will bring down your hosting server load by 50% if not more. Amazon S3 is economic too.
      this is true, but if you have a monster authority site it's going to take you a bunch of time to do all of that.

      just use wpsupercache plugin and cloud fare, all free.

      Youtube for tutorials, enjoy!
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      • Profile picture of the author nicolas simpson
        Originally Posted by aizaku View Post

        this is true, but if you have a monster authority site it's going to take you a bunch of time to do all of that.

        just use wpsupercache plugin and cloud fare, all free.

        Youtube for tutorials, enjoy!
        Thanks much, i know of wpsupercache however never heard about "cloud fare" going to definitely check that out in a while..
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  • Profile picture of the author Steve Fleming
    You need a caching plugin like WP Super Cache and a CDN like Amazon Cloudfront. There's a few other tricks and tweaks but those two will have you well on your way.

    Good luck

    Steve
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  • Profile picture of the author buzilla
    Check out these plugins:

    WP Minify - to compress and combine css/js files
    WP-HTML-Compression - strips spacing and comments from HTML markup
    P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler) - profiles the load times/performance of installed plugins
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    • Profile picture of the author nicolas simpson
      Originally Posted by buzilla View Post

      Check out these plugins:

      WP Minify - to compress and combine css/js files
      WP-HTML-Compression - strips spacing and comments from HTML markup
      P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler) - profiles the load times/performance of installed plugins
      Hey thanks for the plugin suggestions. I currently have WP minify installed. will surely check out the other 2.
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      • Profile picture of the author SiteSmarty
        You could try using the WP2Cloud plugin that helps manage your content delivered from Google Cloud or Amazon S3.

        If you want fast you can host WP on a VPS or dedicated server, use S3 or Google Cloud to deliver your content. Plus your content is secure and no need to backup.
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  • Profile picture of the author nicolas simpson
    I've invested a lot of time and resources in this area because site speed is quite literally money, every second counts and it has a huge impact on conversion.

    For a site like you describe you want a basic dedicated server to start with along with server level caching via memcache and possibly a PHP accelerator.

    You'll also want a content delivery network (check out maxcdn) to keep everything speedy!

    I assume your not using wordpress? I have a more detailed tutorial about how to speed wordpress up to increase conversions here Site Speed Is Money - How I Earnt $30,587 In 6 Hours - Matthew Woodward

    Have you also considered things like compressing the image files and videos server side?

    Yes i'm using wordpress.
    Your suggestions sounds a lot, interesting though..
    i am going to check out those suggestions of your. Seems like they are gonna cost me too, thats the only down part.
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  • Profile picture of the author attan
    I agree WP Super Cache is awesome for wordpress!
    I tried some other in the past but this one works best.
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