The speed of you website is very important factor, everybody should know this. WordPress is very fast after you installed it by default, but when you add lots of plugins to it and other stuff like heavy images or bad optimized theme your website will slow down.
If you have one website, you are in good position but if you own many blogs it is time to take one free day and optimize them all.
Today one of my favourites blogs put online great article about web optimization. In that text there is a part about WordPress speed up process with interesting links to other online tips & tricks.
I want to show you some of the links because Google is full of advices howto speed up WordPress, but I choose the best posts so you can fast look at them and start working and implement those changes.
So this is the main post about website optimization: Ultimate Guide To Web Optimization (Tips & Best Practices). But I would like to focus your attention on other links.
The first thing is simple, only 3 tips for you:
The 3 Easiest Ways to Speed Up WordPress.
The first one is very interesting and I try to implement it to my all websites. It is about Remove Unnecessary PHP Executions and DB Access and it is pretty easy to implement.
Looking forward next good WordPress post will be: 13 Great WordPress Speed Tips & Tricks for MAX Performance and in my opinion best practices are:
* Remove unnecessary Plugins & upgrade current ones
* Install WP Super Cache Plugin
* PHP Speedy WP
The last post about our topic that i want to present is : 40 WordPress Optimisation tips and this time it is not a normal post but nice presentasion. You will see 40 tips in 40 minutes.
That is all , the main factors you need fulfilled are:
* fast hosting server
* use newest WordPress version
* use cache system
* optimize images
* optimize css
Thas is the base for your website and with those links i gave you can work hard and optimize your websites even better.
You can also check out those two: WordPress Optimization/Cheat Sheet & WordPress Optimization Bible websites.
Good luck !
thanks, you could only imagine how much this has helped me. I will definitely implement these suggestions on my 1 week old blog.
Well, I try to implent this on every blog I lead.
It takes time but speed is very important.
I am in the beginning process of doing research to begin my blog/web site. This is GREAT info and I thank you very much for the post - it’s on my favs. Looking forward to your next one.
Among the server side caching plugins there is the best client side one - Web Optimizer, http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/web-optimizer/ . It’s definitely must-have for your weblog.
I never heard about Web Optimizer, tnx for information. It looks pretty good, but I need to test it on my sites to see how it works.
@sunnybear Did you use it on your blogs ? How it works with cashe and other speed up Wordpress plugins ?