10 Ways to Speed Up Wordpress

1. Wordpress Horsepower
10 Ways to speed up Wordpress

3. Who am I?
Ross Johnson
CEO & JANITOR OF 3.7 DESIGNS
http://www.twitter.com/3PointRoss

4. Why?
We all have schweet
computers and fast
interwebs, right?

6. LESS PATIENT!
Yes, we are actually less patient...

7. http://www.pearanalytics.com/blog/2009/how-webpage-load-time-related-to-visitor-loss/

8. You could lose up to 33% of
your visitors if your page took
more than 4 seconds to load on
a broadband connection.
- Akamai, 2006

9. For every 100ms increase in load
time, sales would decrease 1%.
- Amazon 2007

10. Going from 10 to 30 results per
page increased load time by a
mere 0.5 seconds, but resulted in
a 20% drop in traffic.
- Google 2006

11. Problems?
There are some common problems you are
likely to run into...

12. Code Bloat
<div><div><span><div><table><thead><div>

13. Large Media
Optimize dat shiz!

14. Database Queries
Shall we take MySQL or YourSQL?

15. Server Processing
Like food processing, but totally different...

16. Server Calls
Here server, come here boy!

18. Sh*t Server
Smelly...

19. Lets UPGRADE
Vroom Vroom yo!

20. 1. Improve your Code
remove extra <div>’s, no more tables, strip
unnecessary CSS, etc...

21. Compress your Javascript
http://javascriptcompressor.com
Clean up your HTML
http://tidy.sourceforge.net
Compress and Clean your CSS
http://www.cleancss.com
http://www.csscompressor.com

22. 2. Optimize
Optimize your images...
Shrink O Matic - http://toki-woki.net/p/Shrink-O-Matic/

23. 3. Reduce Server Calls
Get off the phone!

24. Combine Your Files
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/scripts-gzip
http://halmatferello.com/lab/wp-css/
http://halmatferello.com/lab/wp-js/
http://code.google.com/p/minify/
Use Sprites
http://www.csssprites.com
Share the Wealth
http://code.google.com/apis/libraries

25. 4. Cache
I make it rain...

26. Top Caching Plugins
•WP Super Cache
•Hyper Cache
•DB Cache
•WP Widget Cache
•W3 Total Cache

27. 5. Compress
I don’t have any good jokes for this one.

28. GZIP Output
If your friend!
Force Gzip - http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/force-gzip
WP Compressor - http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wpcompressor

29. 6. CDN
4 Words... Content Delivery Network, Awesome

30. Browsers limit number of connections to the
same server...
As low as TWO
connections

31. EFFICIENT
&
Intelligent delivery...

32. CDN Plugins
My CDN
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/my-cdn
W3 Total Cache
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache
CDN Tools
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cdn-tools
Free CDN
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/free-cdn

33. CDN Networks
• Amazon CloudFront
• Akamai
• CacheFly
• EdgeCast Networks
• Internap
• Level 3 Communications
• Limelight Networks

34. 7. Server Upgrade
With our power combined, we become...

35. Shared vs VPS
~or~
Dedicated Server

36. 8. Improve your Database
Data is in the eye of the beholder...

37. Optimization
A Clean Database is a Happy Database
WP-Optimize - http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-optimize

38. 9.htaccess

39. # BEGIN WordPress
RewriteEngine on
#
# Unless you have set a different RewriteBase preceding this
# point, you may delete or comment-out the following
# RewriteBase directive:
RewriteBase /
#
# if this request is for "/" or has already been rewritten to WP
RewriteCond $1 ^(index.php)?$ [OR]
# or if request is for image, css, or js file
RewriteCond $1 .(gif|jpg|css|js|ico)$ [NC,OR]
# or if URL resolves to existing file
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
# or if URL resolves to existing directory
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
# then skip the rewrite to WP
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [S=1]
# else rewrite the request to WP
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
#
# END wordpress

40. 10. Spamburger
Does a blogger bad...

41. Tactics
Captcha
Recaptcha - http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-optimize
Plugins
Akismat - http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-optimize
WP-Spam Free - http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-optimize
Other
Bad Behavior - http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bad-behavior

42. Thank ya!
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@3PointRoss