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Need for Speed - Gear Up Your WordPress
This document provides tips for optimizing a WordPress site for speed. It recommends benchmarking loading times to identify issues, prioritizing problems by severity and fix time, reducing page size by limiting posts per page and using progressive loading. Specific optimizations include minimizing social widgets and external fonts, optimizing images, avoiding bloated themes, minifying CSS and JS, enabling gzip compression, leveraging browser caching, using a CDN, and caching content. Common issues are too many posts/widgets, large images, unused theme features, and lack of caching. Resources are provided for further optimization tools and techniques.
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- 1. Need for Speed Gearup Your WordPress
- 2. Hristo Pandjarov @pandjarov Work atSiteGround doing: WordPress Tutorials WordPress Themes WordPress Plugins WordPress Optimization Trying not to look ridiculous in front of people
- 3. Why bother optimizing Betteruser experience Better rankings Lower hosting expenses
- 4. Make a plan …and follow it! Benchmark loading times Pinpoint performance issues Prioritise problems Start optimizing
- 5. Benchmark and findissues http://gtmetrix.com http://tools.pingdom.com
- 6. Common problems … completelyunordered! Too many posts on the homepage Too many Social widgets Too many external fonts used Large/unoptimized Images Themes with too many unused features Too much CSS/JS No static content compression No caching No CDN
- 7. Prioritise problems Sort performanceissues by their severity Sort them by the time you need to fix them Cross-reference the two lists
- 8. Page size … matters! Makea scroll map test ( crazyegg.com ) Reduce the number of posts per page Progressive page loading (infinite scroll)
- 9. Social media widgets/plugins …use them wisely! Avoid using iframes Try not to use “Share on 100 social networks” services Avoid using more than one social plugin
- 10. External fonts … trustme, you don’t need 8 fonts on your site! Include only fonts you use, on the pages you use them Put fonts on your local server and include locally Sacrifice the usage of a font for a better site performance
- 11. Images … the rightsize and the right quality Use images with the right size and specify their dimensions Smush your images: http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-smushit/ Use sprites in your themes
- 12. Avoid bloated themes …really, cut the fat! Avoid themes that support every possible website idea Don’t use all theme features on the same page Make sure that the JavaScript and CSS is loaded only when needed
- 13. Minify your CSSand JS … the smaller the size, the better! Try using WP Minify: http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-minify/ If you’re already using it, enable minify options in W3 Total Cache
- 14. Enable gZIP compression …for HTML, CSS and JavaScript! Use .htaccess rules instead of plugins: http://kb.siteground.com/enable-gzip-via-htaccess/
- 15. Leverage browser caching …whatever that means! The .htaccess rules: http://kb.siteground.com/ leverage-browser-caching/
- 16. Use a CDNservice … but do it wisely! Measure if your site is working faster Even local business can take advantage by the CDN Bonus: “Always Online ” service
- 17. Cache your content …if you don’t cache your content that’s bad and you should feel bad! Use opcode caching - АPC, xCache Use Memcached object caching Use reverse proxies like Varnish, nGinx
- 19. Thank you! @pandjarov /hristo.p@siteground.com Read this presentation on SlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net/siteground
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