Speed Up Wordpress, Wordpress Horsepower

Wordpress Horsepower Ways to speed up Wordpress

I am Ross Johnson @3pointRoss

Should We Care?

moving on...

5% Still on Dial Up Source: http://www.websiteoptimization.com/bw/1008/

Mobile Browsing is Gaining Popularity

We are less patient

“ 53% of DVR subscribers use their DVR to skip commercials ”

Instant Media is Growing Rapidly...

There is no excuse!

“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

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

“ 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

“ Google is incorporating site speed as one of the over 200 signals that we use in ” determining search rankings. - Matt Cutts, Google 2010

“ ...tolerable wait times have decreased to just two seconds. - Fui-Hoon, University of Nebraska ”

“ A 2-second delay resulted in a 3.8% decrease in user ” satisfaction and 4.3% decrease in revenue. - Microsoft Study, 2010

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

Adding Horsepower

AREA 1 YOUR THEME

Improve Theme Coding

ROSS’ CODING TIPS no table based layout all semantic HTML

ROSS’ CODING TIPS use CSS shorthand margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 40px; margin: 10px 40px 20px 0;

ROSS’ CODING TIPS Javascript at the bottom </div>  <script type=”text/javascript”> </script> </body> </html>

ROSS’ CODING TIPS Compress Javascript Javascript Compressor

Tools for Optimization 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 Compress your images http://toki-woki.net/p/Shrink-O-Matic/

Reduce Server Requests

DNS Lookup Hello Server!

Hello Computer!

Can I have this file?

Here you go!

Often takes longer than download the file!

Two at a time

LESS = MORE

Combine Files

CSS Files

Javascript Files

Image Files (use sprits)

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

AREA 2 YOUR WORDPRESS SETUP

Database & Scripting

in order to see this...

Template file(s) with code that needs to be processed Page is rendered and displayed

This takes time...

Use Caching

Creates a static page Page is rendered and displayed

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

Content Delivery Network

Servers to send files to the user are selected by Proximity Latency Network

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

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

Prevent Spam

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

AREA 3 YOUR HOSTING

Three Common Options

Shared One server hosts many websites

Virtual Private You get dedicated memory other sites can’t use...

Dedicated Server is all yours!

Server Tweaks

Compress all files with GZIP

GZIP TOOLS GZIP Enable http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gzip-enable/ GZIP Output http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gzip-pages/ Gzippy http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gzippy/

Virtual Domains css.domain.com images.domain.com videos.domain.com

Thank ya! http://www.37designs.com http://3.7crea.tv http://stylizedweb.com http://workshop.37designs.com @3PointRoss

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