What can I do to speed up my site?

by Mike Adams

Posted: 13 years ago 19 replies

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I'm trying to speed up my site Online Collaboration & Project Management Software: Your Local Project, I have:
- w3 Total Cache enabled
- Have MaxCDN set up as my Content Delivery Network
- I have minify CSS enabled but still rate as poor (F)
See my attached image of my site run through http://gtmetrix.com. I don't know if I'm missing something but I think it should run faster.

#site #speed

artemis360 13 years ago

Hi Mike - your image (Untitled-1copy1.png) is 123KB. You should try and shrink the size down. I try to keep my graphics size small, maximum around 50KB. I use Adobe Fireworks so i'm able to manipulate the images. You can try to shrink it with Adobe Photoshop if you have it.

Hope this helps,
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Mike Adams 13 years ago

I've been using WP-Smush.it to try to compress the images.
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- tucan 13 years ago
  
  I use YSlow to optimize my pages. Try that.
  
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  AndrewS78 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by tucan
  
  I use YSlow to optimize my pages. Try that.
  
  What are the benifits you get from using YSlow ? Please describe more about this soft. Thanks
  
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Ti 13 years ago

Also take a look at your mysql database statistics to see what queries are occurring and how long those queries are taking. There is a good chance the database is slowing things down.
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sparckyz 13 years ago

Thanks for pointing this site out:

GTmetrix | Website Speed and Performance Optimization

Helped me speedup my WP site
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snovakor 13 years ago

yes, it's a little bid slow, but is not so dramatic ! Read my Post if you have time and you'll see which Hosting is the Best and they have fast servers ! You can move any time there.
Again, my post ! Good luck with speed !
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- ryanstreet 13 years ago
  
  Here is a quick primer:
  
  Use as few HTTP requests as possible.
  Use Image Sprites: CSS Sprites: What They Are, Why They're Cool, and How To Use Them | CSS-Tricks
  
  Combine CSS files.
  
  Combine JS files.
  
  Make JS and CSS external.
  
  Put CSS at the top of the page.
  
  Minify CSS, JS, and Images
  
  Put JS at the bottom of the page.
  
  Reduce DNS Lookups
  Use relative paths for external files.
  
  Optimize Images
  
  Compress components with GZIP
  
  For WordPress, use W3c Cache and DB Cache Reloaded.
  
  Make sure your Database is InnoDB.
  
  Make sure your hosting company's box isn't overloaded.
  
  I hope this helps.
  
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ashleysmith12 13 years ago

Hello,

Apparent site presentation may be pretentious by using big browsers, slower modem speeds, or sure computer systems. There is no require to buy a brand fresh computer to find the way our site.
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- Karen Blundell 13 years ago
  
  here's another suggestion and it has turned my site completely around in terms of speed: I have a loaded WordPress-driven site that is now super fast because I switched to a host that is using LiteSpeed and it has made a world of difference.
  
  if you have a resource-heavy WordPress blog, I highly recommend you find a host who offers LiteSpeed.
  
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drewcur02 13 years ago

These are simple yet effective ways to make sure that your website is running fast.
-Optimize Images
-Image Formats
-Optimize Your CSS
-Use a Slash on Your Links
-Use the Height and Width Tags
-Reduce the HTTP Requests
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ionisis 13 years ago

Modular CSS, modular html elements, reusabled css classes, script cache, clean code, optimised images, server side enhancements to the webserver, database enhancements...
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blacklisttom07 13 years ago

I am a newer here.
Glad to meet u.
Is anyone online?
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Mike Adams 13 years ago

One thing that I have done that has helped is started using 'cloudflare'.
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AdWorkMedia 13 years ago

You should also make sure your site is g-zip compressed. This can be done with PHP or by htaccess if you have certain apache libs enabled.
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Mike Adams 13 years ago

I wish there were a way to activate plugins only on the pages that you use them on. Like activating a contact form plugin only on the contact page. Any ideas?
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madberry 13 years ago

You could also use the W3-cache plugin it works great for me, you can use the HDD cache but if your host has memcached running it work even better....
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- mojojuju 13 years ago
  
  Your site has some weird stuff going on that you better look into. Check it out:
  
  HostTracker [Website Uptime Monitoring Service]
  
  I see that your server is responding with 500 errors lots of the time.
  
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