Optimizing WordPress Performance on Shared Web Hosting

Performance Tweaks for Shared Hosting Jon Brown j.Brown Studios @jb510 http://jbrownstudios.comSaturday, October 6, 12

Tweaking WP Performance in 3 acts Act 1 - Inside WordPress Act 2 - On your Shared Server Act 3 - O! your Shared ServerSaturday, October 6, 12

PreludeSaturday, October 6, 12

What am I going to cover today? Performance Tweaks you can make on or with most shared hosting (not that they won’t help on any hosting)Saturday, October 6, 12

What am I not going to talk about today? Geeky tweaks that are only suitable to VPS/Dedicated servers (ie. APC, Memcached, Hyper DB, etc...)Saturday, October 6, 12

Where to go for the advanced stu!? http://wordpress.tv/ http://www.slideshare.net/ Joseph Scott Barry Abrahamson Ilya Grigorik Iliya Polihronov and many others...Saturday, October 6, 12

Measuring Performance • It’s hard to impossible to measure performance on shared servers • How to measure anyway... http://www.webpagetest.orgSaturday, October 6, 12

Why not use your browser tools? • FireBug • YSlow • PageSpeed • WebKit DevTools, • etc...Saturday, October 6, 12

WebPageTest.orgSaturday, October 6, 12

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The challenge with shared hosting • Con"gured to run just about any type of web site • Generalized not optimized • Many performance tweaks available to dedicated/VPS hosting can’t be made • Some performance tweaks you can make... starting in WordPressSaturday, October 6, 12

The goal of all opitimization • Reduce HTTP requests • Reduce total data transfer • Reduce CPU load • Avoid BottlenecksSaturday, October 6, 12

Act 1 Tweaking inside WordPressSaturday, October 6, 12

Inside WordPress 1. Right size/compress images 2. Check for 404’s 3. Keep your DB under control 4. Caching inside WordPressSaturday, October 6, 12

Right sizing images • Upload the maximum pixel size you want to display, not larger • Compress JPGs to 60-70% (aka 7 out of 12 in PhotoShop) • Use WP Smush.it on already uploaded images to "x your past mistakesSaturday, October 6, 12

Checking for 404’s WebPageTest.org or FireBug / Webkit Dev ToolsSaturday, October 6, 12

Keep your DB under control • Optimize DB Plugin - WP DB Manager http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ wp-dbmanager/ • Tame Revisions Plugin - Revision Control http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ revision-control/Saturday, October 6, 12

Caching WordPress • W3 Total Cache • WP Super Cache • WP Minify • Others...Saturday, October 6, 12

W3TC Con"g Guides • http://c3mdigital.com/reduce-page- loading-time-w3-total-cache/ • http://headwaythemes.com/screencast- tuesday-using-w3-total-cache-part-1/ • http://www.kidnapcustomers.com/how- to-make-a-website/w3-total-cache- settings-wordpress-speed/Saturday, October 6, 12

W3TC Do’s & Dont’s for shared hosting • Do test settings • Don’t assume turning everything up to 11 will work well... it won’t. • Do take the time to "gure out minifying and combing "les it makes a huge di!erence • Don’t forget to prime your cacheSaturday, October 6, 12

W3TC Minify Settings Try Auto (Performance>General Settings)Saturday, October 6, 12

W3TC Manual Minify Use Manual (Performance>Min"y) Lists all your CSS and JS for easy manual addition and orderingSaturday, October 6, 12

After Mini"cationSaturday, October 6, 12

Before Mini"cationSaturday, October 6, 12

Act 2 On your Shared Hosting ServerSaturday, October 6, 12

On your Server 1. PHP Version 2. DB Cleanup 3. Cloud#are (if your lucky)Saturday, October 6, 12

Switch to a newer version of PHP “PHP 5.2 to 5.3 - WordPress 15% faster” ~ Dmitry Stogov http://news.php.net/ php.internals/36484 PHP 5.4 is even fasterSaturday, October 6, 12

How to change PHP versions • Ask your web host... • In cPanel "nd PHP Con"g • Sometimes set in .htaccess via AddHandlerSaturday, October 6, 12

PHP 5.2 - 5.3 - 5.4Saturday, October 6, 12

Keep Your DB under control • PHPMyAdmin to Optimize MySQL Tables if you didn’t want to use the WP DB Manager plugin to do itSaturday, October 6, 12

CloudFlare free awesomeness CDN + Site Optimizer + SecuritySaturday, October 6, 12

Some Host Integrating CloudFlare with cPanel • http://www.cloud#are.com/hosting- partners (DreamHost, BlueHost, many more...)Saturday, October 6, 12

Enable CloudFlare in your cPanelSaturday, October 6, 12

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W3 Total Cache can control CloudFlareSaturday, October 6, 12

One CaveatSaturday, October 6, 12

Act 3 O! your Shared Hosting ServerSaturday, October 6, 12

O! your server 1. CDNs (CloudFlare is Free)Saturday, October 6, 12

CloudFlare CDN + Optimizer + SecuritySaturday, October 6, 12

Setup Cloud#are 1. Setup CloudFlare account (free) 2. Have CloudFlare scan your DNS records (check your records) 3. Repoint your nameservers 4. DoneSaturday, October 6, 12

Why • Reduces requests to your server • Reduces requests to your CDN if you use one • Adds security • Optimizer features (I use W3TC)Saturday, October 6, 12

So where does it get us?Saturday, October 6, 12

Where we started 1 2 3Saturday, October 6, 12

W3TC Mini"cation 1 2 3Saturday, October 6, 12

W3TC + CloudFlare 1 2 3Saturday, October 6, 12

Optimizing WordPress Performance on Shared Web Hosting

by Jon Brown on Oct 06, 2012

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