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I Can Haz More Performanz?
- 1. PRESENTED TO WORDCAMPOMAHA BY ANDY MELICHAR
- 2. FIRST THINGS FIRST ALITTLE ABOUT ME…
- 3. THIS IS MYFIRST WORCAMP SPEAKING GIG… WOOO!! Thanks for the opportunity!
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- 5. Serial Hobbyist Current obsession: HAM Radio. Mycallsign is KEØATA
- 6. I just might knowmy way around the kitchen… Look familiar?
- 7. Omaha, born and raised! Andnow I live in Ypsilanti, Michigan
- 8. What the heckdoes a serial hobbyist, karaoke-singing culinary guy know about WordPress?
- 9. Director of Web Developmentand Agile Product Owner for A2 Hosting We spend a lot of time on making WordPress better for our customers! Ask me about Agile/Scrum!
- 10. From the Perspectiveof a Hosting Company… A high percentage of our current and new customers are WordPress users, and the number keeps rising Being on the hosting end, we can dig into common performance issues MUCH deeper because we know our web servers inside and out The very high percentage of WordPress related support requests that we receive are performance related, so we’ve looked at many different ways to improve performance
- 11. SECOND THINGS SECOND TIMEFOR YOU ALL TO FESS UP!
- 12. How many ofyou… Have attempted to optimize your WP Site? Have installed/configured a caching plugin? Know what a CDN is? Have added configurations to an .htaccess file Are running your own server (VPS/dedicated/cloud) ?
- 13. Why should wecare about performance?
- 14. Some statistics… 40%of people abandon a website that takes more than 3 seconds to load A 1 second delay in page response can result in a 7% reduction in conversions If an e-commerce site is making $100,000 per day, a 1 second page delay could potentially cost you $2.5 million in lost sales every year Source: https://blog.kissmetrics.com/loading-time/
- 15. Bottom line… Apoorly optimized website can cost you real $$ in support and hosting costs By diving into performance and optimization, you’ll learn more about WordPress, and more about web systems and infrastructure By becoming a performance expert, you’ll be able to deliver a much more reliable, robust product to your customers!
- 16. How do youmeasure performance?
- 17. Performance Measurement Tools Gtmetrix.com – my favorite! Free Easy to use/understand Has a WordPress Plugin WebPageTest.org Also Free Lots of great detailed information LoadImpact.com Free + Paid plans Simulates multiple, concurrent users hitting your site
- 18. What Measurements Matter? Page Load Time Most representative of the customer experience Best “overall” performance metric Total Page Size Good to keep an eye on this for major problems such as Uncompressed images High-resource themes/plugins
- 19. Let’s Look atour Before
- 20. Where can we “hazmore performanz?”
- 21. Areas of Focusfor Performance Optimizations within WordPress Our Web Server Environment External Services
- 22. Optimizations within WordPress Clean house! Get rid of unused themes/plugins/etc. Don’t just deactivate… DELETE Be sure everything is up-to-date Most recent WordPress version Plugins are all updated to latest version
- 23. Optimizations within WordPress Utilize a Caching Plugin
- 24. Optimizations within WordPress Utilize a Caching Plugin W3 Total Cache or Fix-W3TC Free and HIGHLY configurable WP Rocket Paid, but comes well-recommended WP Super Cache Robust and easy to use
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- 26. The orange arrowsrepeat for every: • Image • CSS File • JavaScript File • Video • Etc.
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- 28. With Caching, weskip a bunch of steps! • File System • PHP • Database
- 29. Enable Caching –Results (Gtmetrix) Before Caching After Caching
- 30. 25 Concurrent VirtualUsers Using LoadImpact.com No Caching: 1.5s Page Load Time Caching: 180ms Page Load Time
- 31. Optimizations within WordPress Turn on Minification Most caching plugins will have an option for this, but it may not be enabled by default You DO have to be careful, because Minification can break some themes/plugins, YMMV
- 32. Minification – JQueryBefore / After Before 10,220 Lines 261KB File Size After 3 (LONG) Lines 85KB File Size ~60% Reduction In size
- 33. Optimizations within WordPress Turn on GZip Compression Vast majority of hosts (especially shared hosts) support GZip from the server level, it just needs to be enabled Easily enabled via .htaccess rules Most caching plugins will also have an option to enable GZip compression https://codex.wordpress.org/Output_Compression
- 34. Enable GZip –Results (Gtmetrix) Before Gzip After Gzip
- 35. Optimizations within WordPress Optimize Images Images are a significant amount of data that has to get transferred from the server to the client Compress them! Before you upload During upload with a plugin, such as WP Smush
- 36. Now let’s lookat the server!
- 37. Server-Side Optimizations for WordPress Add “Expires” headers for static content This tells the user’s browser to cache static files locally so they don’t have to transferred repeatedly Done in either .htaccess or nginx config Plugins like W3 Total Cache can help you do this, though you may still need to edit an .htaccess or nginx config file
- 38. Server-Side Optimizations for WordPress Switch Web Servers Apache – most common, not as robust Nginx – increasingly more common, way better at serving up static files LiteSpeed – licensed software, drop in replacement for Apache, does well with high volume, concurrent traffic
- 39. Server-Side Optimizations for WordPress Switch Web Servers To switch, typically need to be on your own server (VPS/Dedicated/Cloud) OR you can find a host that specifically offers hosting that uses one of the alternative web servers
- 40. Server-Side Optimizations for WordPress Enable APC/OpCache APC (for PHP < 5.5) or OpCache (for PHP 5.5 and greater) reduces the amount of time it takes the server to process PHP files Few shared hosts have this enabled on their servers Typically need to have a VPS or Dedicated server with APC or OpCache Installed Once enabled on the server, nothing to configure or turn on in WordPress
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- 42. What is aCDN? (Content Delivery Network) CDN Sits between the server and the client, and handles serving up some/all of your files CDN’s typically have a large infrastructure of multiple servers located in strategic geographic locations
- 43. What is aCDN? (Content Delivery Network) Benefits: They can reduce the load on your server They can shorten the distance (hops) it takes for the client to get your data They also can act as a protection tool for things like DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks, brute force attacks, and other attack vectors
- 44. Without a CDN Rememberthis mess?
- 45. With a CDN Thingsflow differently!
- 46. With a CDN Thingsflow differently!
- 47. DDoS Attack The trafficnever hits your server!
- 48. Some Popular CDNs CloudFlare MaxCDN CacheFly Softlayer More in the Codex: https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Optimization #Use_a_content_Delivery_Network_.28CDN.29
- 49. The Downside ofCDNs To be effective they required DNS entry changes Typically also need to have a corresponding WordPress plugin to talk to the CDN and coordinate content updates Depending on how much protection / caching / etc, can cost $$$
- 50. What all didwe do to our test site? Enabled GZip Added Expires Headers Installed W3 Total Cache Turned on Minification Enabled CloudFlare CDN Utilized nginx Enabled opCache
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- 52. What’s up withthat ‘C’ ?
- 53. What’s up withthat ‘C’ ? If we wanted to further optimize, we could bring these JS/CSS files local so they would get Minified/GZipped
- 54. Look a littlecloser at our “After” On a repeat view we are REALLY flying Only 1 request needed Under 1s load time Bytes in: 16KB!
- 55. Final Thoughts Thereare LOTS of options to optimize/gain performance You don’t have to do them all Many people in the WordPress community know how to help you with these configurations The Codex is your friend!
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Editor's Notes
- #7 If that kitchen doesn’t look familiar go downstairs! I unfortunately had to cut my studies short when I moved to Michigan.
- #11 One of the nice things about working for a hosting company is that I, and my colleagues, get to know WordPress really well.
- #27 (talk through each step)
- #29 Talk through each step and explain how it is a much shorter process.
- #30 On the GTMetrix we can see a direct result in our page load time. It’s not huge, but my website also isn’t very complex, so it’s harder for us to see enormous improvements. The other thing to remember about caching, is that when it REALLY shines, is with concurrent website traffic. Let’s take a look!
- #31 Here’s where we really see the difference – this test was conducted with LoadImpact sending 25 users to my site over 5 minutes.
- #33 Jquery is a fairly common javascript library used in many frameworks and themes. If you compare the the full, development-ready version of Jquery against the same version run through minification, you can see the difference in size.
- #35 Here’s a before and after, you can see the direct results in both our PageSpeed and Yslow scores, but also the Total Page Size is reduced by about a third.
- #45 Without a CDN, every connection from the client is DIRECTLY to your server.
- #46 The first time we hit a page, we go through the whole cycle so the CDN can capture the content from your site.
- #47 The second time, the CDN can take over and serves up your content without even hitting your server. Occasionally the CDN will hit your server to check that it is still serving up valid content, and will update it’s internal cache if it detects a change. Also of note… there are many types of CDN’s, some of them work differently than others or have different subscription levels. For example, some CDN’s only serve up images and JS/CSS files, and it will still contact your server for the page content. This still saves resources on your server and speeds up the page loading time because we aren’t relying on our server to do all the work.
- #48 Now let’s say your CDN service also provides DDoS / Brute Force protection. In this case when a DDoS attack commences, the attack is absorbed by the CDN, and it only routes valid traffic back to the client. Why is this important for optimization? Because your site doesn’t go down!!
- #55 Where we really see a benefit is in the repeat view…