WordPress performance optimization tips for a site with 5 million monthly visits and over 400,000 articles include using plugins like W3 Total Cache and Limit Login Attempts, keeping the wp-options table small with up to 400 rows, converting tables from MyISAM to InnoDB, avoiding remote file opens for syncing, and limiting plugins like Article Read Count, Weather/Currency informers, WMPL, and qTranslate for better speed. The full document provides advice on optimizing a large WordPress site for speed from Edgar Marukyan of blog.smartwebsitetips.com.

1. WordPress Performance
Optimisation
for dummies…

2. TODO
• WordPress is fast
• Do not degrade it.
• Stats
• 5.000.000 Monthly Visits
• 400.000+ articles

3. Plugins Must Use
• Limit Login Attempts
• W3 Total Cache

4. To Check
• wp-options table - keep it small (up to 400 rows)
• convert tables from MyISAM to InnoDB
• avoid remote file open - sync

5. Plugins To Avoid
• Less plugins - more speed
• Article Read Count
• Weather, Currency informer
• WMPL, qTranslate …

6. Questions

7. Edgar Marukyan
edgar@peyotto.com
blog.smartwebsitetips.com