Best WordPress Plugins for Speed?

13 years ago

Hi,
WordPress speed optimization is actually a result of many optimization actions.
Right from analyzing the issues with the WordPress installations to Optimize your homepage, images, database, site compression and caching.

I will recommend you to learn all these basic things and utilize eventually to enhance the speed of your WordPress Website.

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efil4renots

13 years ago

Originally Posted by vikash_kumar

Hi,
WordPress speed optimization is actually a result of many optimization actions.
Right from analyzing the issues with the WordPress installations to Optimize your homepage, images, database, site compression and caching.

I will recommend you to learn all these basic things and utilize eventually to enhance the speed of your WordPress Website.

Thanks for your reply!

so no suggestions of plugins then? haha

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RobinInTexas

12 years ago

For speed, use a site like WebPagetest - Website Performance and Optimization Test and follow their suggestions.

Other than installing W3 total cache, and using Cloudflare most plugins will slow down your site.

You can install P3 Performance profiler to see the effects of the various plugins, then disable it or uninstall it

I prefer to optimize images before uploading them.

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exactprecisions

12 years ago

Originally Posted by RobinInTexas

For speed, use a site like WebPagetest - Website Performance and Optimization Test and follow their suggestions.

Other than installing W3 total cache, and using Cloudflare most plugins will slow down your site.

You can install P3 Performance profiler to see the effects of the various plugins, then disable it or uninstall it

I prefer to optimize images before uploading them.

CloudFlare is junk and on rented servers - if you want optimal performance go for MaxCDN. Everything else you mentioned I 100% agree with.

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damoncloudflare 12 years ago

Originally Posted by exactprecisions

CloudFlare is junk and on rented servers - if you want optimal performance go for MaxCDN. Everything else you mentioned I 100% agree with.

The bulk of our customers are actually probably on shared servers because they activate through hosting partners. We would actually help sites on shared servers because we're helping to reduce the load on the server.

If you personally had a bad experience, we could have investigated the issue via a support ticket.
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damoncloudflare

12 years ago

Originally Posted by RobinInTexas

For speed, use a site like WebPagetest - Website Performance and Optimization Test and follow their suggestions.

Other than installing W3 total cache, and using Cloudflare most plugins will slow down your site.

You can install P3 Performance profiler to see the effects of the various plugins, then disable it or uninstall it

I prefer to optimize images before uploading them.

I just wanted to clarify that installing the CloudFlare WordPress plugin alone doesn't activate CloudFlare (someone reading this may think it does). It would still require signing up directly or through a partner for CloudFlare.

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sagittarius

12 years ago

You can set up Cloudflare on some hosts. It also has a Cloudflare Wordpress Plugin.

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RobinInTexas 12 years ago

Originally Posted by sagittarius

You can set up Cloudflare on some hosts. It also has a Cloudflare Wordpress Plugin.

You can set up Cloudflare on any web site, regardless of the host.
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- kpmedia 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by RobinInTexas
  
  You can set up Cloudflare on any web site, regardless of the host.
  
  Many, many CloudFlare tests show that it actually SLOWS DOWN sites, not improves them.
  CloudFlare is all hat, and no cattle.
  
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getbestdesign

12 years ago

speed comes from the owner of the site how he manage it, installing too much plugin it just bloat your site, but for some reason you dont have any choice of installing too much plugin and you running an speed issue, i recommend this WordPress › WP Super Cache « WordPress Plugins..

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David Hall 12 years ago

you can also throw in WordPress Image Compressor
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- exactprecisions 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by David Hall
  
  you can also throw in WordPress Image Compressor
  
  Are you referring to EWWW Image Optimizer? If so those sort of plugins require the host server have specific php modules installed in order for it to go through the automatic routines the plugin makes available. Otherwise they will be forced to have to use a cloud image optimizing solution.
  
  EWWW Image Optimizer is great.
  
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exactprecisions

12 years ago

Originally Posted by efil4renots

Hey Guys,

Could any of you recommend any plugins that will help with the speed of a WordPress website?

My website will have -

Text
Images
Embedded YouTube Videos
Landing Pages

I used to have a plugin that compressed the size of all of the images you already had on your site which helped loads, but now I can't remember the name of it (I used it on a site I no longer have). If any of you can recommend a good plugin for this as well I would be super grateful?

Thanks for any and all suggestions - even the spammy and rude ones! haha

w3 total cache, ewww image optimizer, maxcdn and installing the gtmetrix plugin - including all the webmaster tools youre able to setup through w3 should get you on the right track. You can further this by extensively testing on services such as webpagetest.org, pingdom, and gtmetrix - along with the google insight reports. This will allow you to pin-point say, scripts in the header/footer that could be combined as well as defered. (just an example)

Like someone else mentioned you can obtain a water-fall like report of your plugins and internal operations via p3 performance profiler.

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HA-Dave

12 years ago

Cache is almost a must - I usually recommend wp super cache over most of the other non-cache related things

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Bruce Niconl

12 years ago

I used W3 total cache and it works well

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markdavies001

12 years ago

I recommend Cloudfair Wordpress Plugin.It enhance the speed the of your Website.

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Sahana Chawla

11 years ago

You can use W3 Total Cache, it improves the site performance and speed.

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ofesak

11 years ago

Most important thing is compression of your images (up to 80% decrease in size). You can google "compressjpeg" online tool for that.

Second thing is fast hosting which you definitely need to have. And no need in VPS or dedicated server for site with small traffic, just good hosting provider.

Regarding to plugins and caching...trust me, browsers on client-side have enough level of caching, Wordpress CMS engine is fast enough itself, otherwise it would not be so popular.

Just use good theme, correct setup and your site will be fast enough, I bet that plugins will not help you. If you have slow site, but images compressed and good hosting then it is only reason - bad website implementation, performance defects, memory leaks...you need technical corrections in PHP side of your website.

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tomkidotiptrick

11 years ago

wp-optimize-by-xtraffic,wp-optimize,wp-smushit...

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Elisha Butler

11 years ago

Yes, there are plugin you can use to speed up the website like Cache plugins W3 Total Cache, reduce the size of images it will help your website to load fast. For more information you may visit Templatetoaster's blog.

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startingtrends

11 years ago

I know it's been mentioned already, but my recommendation would also be to use WP Super Cache.

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JerryEdison3289

11 years ago

W3 total cache
W3 super cache

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