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How I reduced Page Load Time by 75% - WordPress Optimization

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Post by kadavy » Thu, Apr 22, 2010, 1:43 AM UTC

How I reduced Page Load Time by 75% - WordPress Optimization
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Post by WillyF » Thu, Apr 22, 2010, 3:24 AM UTC

W3 Total Cache really is a fantastic plug-in. It's significantly reduced my server load, and hasn't caused any problems as far as I can tell.

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Post by pavs » Thu, Apr 22, 2010, 4:04 AM UTC

WillyF wrote: post #2

W3 Total Cache really is a fantastic plug-in. It's significantly reduced my server load, and hasn't caused any problems as far as I can tell.

Yup, I have been using it with maxcdn (PULL) and other custom optimization; was able to go from ~8sec load time to less than 2 second load time on average.

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Post by volomike » Thu, Apr 22, 2010, 4:04 AM UTC

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/chennai-central/

FTW

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Post by thedevelopment » Thu, Apr 22, 2010, 4:13 AM UTC

What an excellent post, and easy enough for someone without tech experience to follow. This will definitely be forwarded to friends wanting to get into the more serious side of web publishing.

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Post by wanderr » Thu, Apr 22, 2010, 4:14 AM UTC

volomike wrote: post #4

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/chennai-central/ FTW

What does that actually do? All the description says is that it saves you bandwidth.

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Post by mdolon » Thu, Apr 22, 2010, 4:20 AM UTC

If your problem is CPU usage rather than bandwidth overage, consider switching from Apache to nginx. I found my LAMP WordPress blog (hosted on a small VPS and using W3 Total Cache) was having trouble with concurrent users - traffic spikes would make my CPU usage skyrocket.

I've since switched to nginx and the results have been great under moderate to high traffic, and without the use of any caching plugin.

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Post by kadavy » Thu, Apr 22, 2010, 4:25 AM UTC

WillyF wrote: post #2

W3 Total Cache really is a fantastic plug-in. It's significantly reduced my server load, and hasn't caused any problems as far as I can tell.

I just wish that they had support for rotating through multiple subdomains, so I wouldn't have to do it manually.

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Post by MichaelApproved » Thu, Apr 22, 2010, 4:27 AM UTC

Great tips. The most useful one for me is to put images and script files on a subdomain.

Doesn't adding CSS and JavaScript inline hurt your google rank?

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Post by kadavy » Thu, Apr 22, 2010, 4:32 AM UTC

MichaelApproved wrote: post #9

Great tips. The most useful one for me is to put images and script files on a subdomain. Doesn't adding CSS and JavaScript inline hurt your google rank?

I'm not sure about that inline issue - I hadn't heard that. I actually got that advice from Yahoo, I think. The inline Javascript and CSS makes the page load faster, so in theory it would help.