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How to speed this site up?

by Rich7
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Hi,

I'm looking for ways to speed this site up: How to Write to Persuade and Sell

Is it possible to run some sort of a test to find where the bottle-necks are? Or would I just need to try lots of things till I see the site speed up?

It's a wordpress site -- I've run a bunch of speed tests on it, and it's averaging about 9 to 10 seconds to load.

I have the s2member plugin on the site -- I thought that might be slowing it up. But I tested a different wordpress site with and without s2member, and it didn't seem to make much difference when the plugin was activated.

I have other sites on the same hosting account -- a cakephp site, and other wordpress sites, and they're loading in more like 2 seconds...

Is it possible to run some sort of a test to find where the bottle-necks are? Or do I just need to try lots of things till I see it speeds up?


Thanks.
#site #speed
  • Profile picture of the author sabluuk
    You Could try W3 total cache. It is a caching plugin which will make your website way faster.

    Also google for "website speed testing". There are a lot of free tools for it
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  • Profile picture of the author Ricky Dawn
    Use this to see what is slowing your site down, it also gives suggestions on how to speed it up:

    https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights
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  • Profile picture of the author Vimal Gobin
    Here are 2 awesome tools for you (web-based - nothing to download )
    1. GTmetrix | Website Speed and Performance Optimization

    2. PageSpeed Insights - Google Developers
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  • Profile picture of the author lordspace
    I'd say install wp super cache plugin and/or upgrade to a VPS (Virtual Private Server) ... assuming that you're on a sharing web hosting, yes?

    Update: here is what I have for my servers.

    Enable these values from your php.ini file if you have access to custom php.ini files.
    Code:
    zlib.output_compression = On

; http://www.php.net/manual/en/zlib.configuration.php#ini.zlib.output-compression-level
zlib.output_compression_level = -1
    Add the following lines ideally to httpd.conf and if not then to .htaccess

    Code:
    # credits: http://betterexplained.com/articles/how-to-optimize-your-site-with-gzip-compression/
# compress text, html, javascript, css, xml:
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/atom+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rdf+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/json
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript
    How to test if the content is gzipped
    http://www.gidnetwork.com/tools/gzip-test.php
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  • Profile picture of the author Kingfish85
    Seems like long sql queries to me..

    Find a better host that isn't jamming their servers with as many accounts as possible.

    Use LiteSpeed, WP-Supercache and a CDN such as cloudFlare.

    You need to test this at different times also. It may be running ok when you try 1 time, but another time it might experience longer wait times.
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