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Sep 18, 2009, 10:12 #1
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Speeding wordpress up
Av had reports that my site is a little on the slow time for page loading..
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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?
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Sep 21, 2009, 16:08 #2
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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.
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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.
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Sep 22, 2009, 01:50 #3
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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
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Sep 22, 2009, 12:47 #4
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Sep 24, 2009, 05:47 #5
Took about 5 seconds here for the server to start responding. Is there any way that you can lessen the size of that animation?
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Sep 24, 2009, 05:50 #6
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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?
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Sep 24, 2009, 17:25 #7
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Sep 26, 2009, 02:19 #8
Look out for phpspeedy wordpress plugin . It decreases the load time effectively to a great extent.
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Sep 26, 2009, 12:30 #9
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Sep 26, 2009, 12:35 #10
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Yeah, i used the php speedy plugin but I had a conflict within my site so had to disable it..
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2 plugs: Use Google Libraries, GZippy
They can visit the WordPress fast and effectively to save the server bandwidth resources
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I think that there should be some plugins to do that, if somebody knows names please share
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Oct 2, 2009, 20:59 #13
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wow great tips. i will try to apply this tips in my own blog to speed up a litle.
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