Speeding wordpress up

[leehughes]

Av had reports that my site is a little on the slow time for page loading..

www.leehughes.co.uk

Av just added wp-cache and tested it with Yslow which I got

Grade F on Add Expires headers
Grade E on Compress components with gzip
Grade F on Configure entity tags (ETags)
Grade F on Use a Content Delivery Network (CDN)

The rest where A's.

My site as a whole - C
Overall performance score 74

What else can I do to speed this baby up and stop people exiting?

[MikeDVB]

Your site's server is taking over a whole second (1,000ms) to even respond to the initial request for the web page (this is the first line in the below image). This is bad - I see that you are hosted at Streamline - I don't know anything about them but you may want to shift to a less overloaded/higher quality provider. LiteSpeed can also drastically speed up web site responsiveness over Apache in most cases. Also keep in mind that I am located in the United States so there is an inherent amount of latency (delay) to an initial request.
http://www.screen-shot.net/ss/70798375316862362.png

Even using the Pingdom Page Tester (http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt) you can see that the server your site is hosted on is taking a substantial amount of time to respond to the initial request for your site: http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/?url=ht...k//&id=1275889

Another issue I see is that you are pulling a *LOT* of content from flickr and as such you are relying on their services to respond quickly and it seems that it's not always doing so.
http://www.screen-shot.net/ss/48252317062490457.png

[leehughes]

Ahhh...

thank you

yeah I have a plugin puling out all my photos from my flickr account.. I shall reduce this when I have time.

Am not sure I can swap servers now, I think am stuck with them for 2 years now

[MikeDVB]

Am not sure I can swap servers now, I think am stuck with them for 2 years now

I would ask them if they would give you a pro-rated credit should you decide to leave. If they say no then you probably are stuck.

[cpace1983]

Took about 5 seconds here for the server to start responding. Is there any way that you can lessen the size of that animation?

[leehughes]

Well I can make it whatever size I want but it will just look strange at a smaller size..

If it takes 5 seconds for my server to start then it's a problem with my server right?

[MikeDVB]

Well I can make it whatever size I want but it will just look strange at a smaller size..

If it takes 5 seconds for my server to start then it's a problem with my server right?

Yeah, because the initial response time has nothing to do with the size/type of your content.

[sharma3361]

Look out for phpspeedy wordpress plugin . It decreases the load time effectively to a great extent.

[MikeDVB]

Look out for phpspeedy wordpress plugin . It decreases the load time effectively to a great extent.

Yeah, but it's not going to decrease the server's initial response time no matter what. It may help after that point however.

[leehughes]

Yeah, i used the php speedy plugin but I had a conflict within my site so had to disable it..

[czissis]

2 plugs: Use Google Libraries, GZippy

They can visit the WordPress fast and effectively to save the server bandwidth resources

[nesrray]

I think that there should be some plugins to do that, if somebody knows names please share

[chimeara]

wow great tips. i will try to apply this tips in my own blog to speed up a litle.