Wordpress horsepower

Wordpress Horsepower 10 Ways to speed up Wordpress

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Large Media Optimize dat shiz!

Database Queries Shall we take MySQL or YourSQL?

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

Server Calls Here server, come here boy!

Sh*t Server Smelly...

Lets UPGRADE Vroom Vroom yo!

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

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

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

3. Reduce Server Calls Get off the phone!

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

4. Cache I make it rain...

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

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

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

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

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

EFFICIENT & Intelligent delivery...

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

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

Shared vs VPS ~or~ Dedicated Server

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

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

9.htaccess

# 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

10. Spamburger Does a blogger bad...

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

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

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Wordpress horsepower

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