The document provides a comprehensive guide on boosting the performance of WordPress websites, addressing issues like slow load times and insecure plugins. It outlines both simple and advanced optimization techniques, such as updating software, using caching, and compressing images to enhance site speed and security. Additionally, a case study demonstrates the effects of these optimizations on a test WordPress site.

1. How to Boost the Performance of your WordPress-
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PRATIK JAGDISHWALA

2. ABOUT ME

3. Why?

4. Why?
● Very popular
● Easy to install, customize
● Simple to maintain
● Amazing community and
commercial support
● User friendly

5. Issues?

6. Issues?
● Malware
● Vulnerabilities
● Bad practices
● Un-optimized/Un-secure
plugins/themes
● Too many addons
● Lack of long term

7. Slow Site Problems
● 1 Second Delay in Page load leads to
○ 11% Drop in pageviews
○ 16% Decrease in customer satisfaction
○ 7% Loss in Conversion
● 83% people expect a web page to load under 3 secs
● 40% will abandon a web page if it takes more than 3 secs to load
● 73% of mobile users have encountered a slow website

8. Solutions

9. Solutions
● Adding more resources?
● VPS/Dedicated/Cloud?
● How much is too much?
● Where do you stop?
● What's the actual solution?
● Optimizations?

10. Optimizations

11. Optimizations
● Analyze your website
○ Firebug (Mozilla)
○ PageSpeed
○ Yslow
○ Gtmetrix.com (Combination of Pagespeed, Yslow, etc)

12. Optimizations - Simple

13. Optimizations - Simple
● Update WP/Plugins/Themes to the latest version
● Enable auto updates
● Disable unnecessary plugins
● Limit Web Crawlers and Bots
● Limit WP Crons (Use cPanel or server side crons)
● Use reliable theme providers
● Avoid/Limit external scripts

14. Optimizations - Simple
● Use web optimized images (WP Smush)
● Use JPG instead of PNG
● No of elements < 30-50
● Page size guide
○ Excellent: Under 500 KB
○ Good: Under 1 MB
○ Acceptable: 1-3 MB

15. Optimizations - Advanced
● Use Domain Sharding
● Use CSS Sprites
● Customize wp-config
○ Autosave intervals
○ Limit post revisions
○ wp_home
○ wp_siteurl

16. Optimizations - Advanced
● WP-Sweep Plugin
○ Cleanup unused, orphaned and duplicate data
● WP-Optimize
● Anti Spambot plugin
● Expires and Etag for browsers
● Gzip on server
● MySQL caching

17. Optimizations - Advanced
● WP Super Cache or W3 Total Cache
● CDN’s
● Database caching
○ Memcached, Redis (DB caching)
● Web caching
○ Varnish caching

18. Optimizations - To Avoid
● Resource Intensive Plugins
○ Some SEO plugins
○ Some image galleries and media players
○ Web based backup plugins
○ Web based crons
● Pirated plugins/themes
● Scripts/plugins/themes from unknown/unreliable sources

19. Secure WP

20. Secure WP
● Secure wp-config
● No 777 perms
● Avoid unsecure FTP connections
● Use strong passwords
● Use Dual factor auth when possible
● Disable unused scripts
● Wordfence

21. Case Study

22. Case Study
● A simple blog set up on shared hosting in GPX Mumbai
● Multidomain Linux Hosting with cPanel
● Jmeter automated tests from Mumbai India
○ 1000 page requests
○ 5 concurrent threads
○ Every user requesting the page 200 times
● Page contains Multiple Images, Content, Comments

23. Pre Optimization

24. Pre-optimization setup
● Wordpress 4.7.2
● Plugins
○ Fakerpress
○ Akismet
○ Hello Dolly
● 1000 requests with 5 thread and 200 request per thread
● 2000 requests with 10 thread and 200 request per thread

25. Pre-optimization setup

26. Post Optimization (Phase 1)

27. Post-optimization (Phase 1)
● Wordpress 4.7.2
● Plugins
○ Fakerpress
○ Akismet
○ W3 Total Cache
○ WP Smush
○ WP Optimize

28. Post-optimization (Phase 1)

29. Post Optimization (Phase 2)

30. Post-optimization (Phase 2)
● Wordpress 4.7.2
● Plugins
○ Fakerpress
○ Akismet
○ W3 Total Cache
○ WP Smush
○ WP Optimize

31. Post-optimization (Phase 2)

32. Take away

33. Questions
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