WordPress Speed Optimisation
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The document discusses various topics for optimizing a WordPress website including general optimization techniques like upgrading WordPress, minimizing PHP and MySQL usage, optimizing CSS and JavaScript placement, using CSS sprites, and optimizing images. It also discusses caching plugins like W3 Total Cache and WP Super Cache as well as benchmarking tools. Finally, it touches on choosing a good server environment.
WordPress Speed Optimisation
- 2. Turbo charge your WordPress website Peter Bui Twitter: astroboysoup
- 3. Topics Being Covered General Website Optimisation WP Caching Benchmarking Tools Servers
- 4. General Website Optimisation Why What for?
- 5. General Website Optimisation Upgrade your WP install
- 6. General Website Optimisation Avoid excess PHP and MySQL If you can hard code then do so.
- 7. General Website Optimisation For the template creators CSS at the top JS at the bottom
- 8. General Website Optimisation CSS Sprites http://spriteme.org/
- 9. General Website Optimisation Image optimisation
- 10. General Website Optimisation How many plugins do you use?
- 11. WordPress Caching Caching Plugins W3 Total Cache http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/ WP Super Cache http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/
- 14. Servers Get a Good environment
- 15. Servers
Editor's Notes
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- #5: Google Says so\nThe faster the website loads the better the end user experience\nGoogle ranks sites higher that are better optimised (maybe)\n
- #6: Not only does your upgraded WP install come with security patches it also comes with better optimised code.\nNot all the time but from time to time a few releases will have small and simple tweaks to the code to help imporve the speed of your website.\n\n
- #7: Optimise you code.\nIf you can avoid PHP calls and extra MySQL calls then do so. \nOptimise your code to help reduce CPU and memory loads.\nWidgets that are plain text or HTML based should just be placed in the template.\n\n
- #8: Making sure that JS is at the bottom so that your page doesn’t stop loading because of excessive JS libraries being loaded into your website.\n\nYour site will stop loading until that 140kb JS framework library loads\n\nIf you load the JS after, the page will render and THEN have JS effects applied to it.\n
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- #11: If you’re not using those plug in that you started playing around with 7 months ago then uninstall them.\nEach plugin can be adding that little bit of extra load to your WP website\nGet rid of everything you don’t need from your site\n\n
- #12: What they do?\nThey compress your pages\ncompresses, joins and minifies your CSS and JS files\nAllows for CDNs\nMany more advanced features\n
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- #15: Shared hosting is not built for speed, its built for budgets\n
- #16: Shared hosting is not built for speed, its built for budgets\n