Comments on: How To Make Your WordPress Blog Load Faster

By: Mariette

Mariette — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:11:10 +0000

WP Cache speeds up a little bit. Maybe my web hosting blog has too many images. Will check that too.

By: ijstyles

ijstyles — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 11:11:07 +0000

Hey great article for making Wordpress blog to load faster. Really helpful, I'm going to do this now in my blog.

By: paul@hd camcorders

paul@hd camcorders — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:33:30 +0000

good tips. i use wp super cache and love it. i have also installed a php cache like eaccelerator. and i have also done apache and mysql tuning. all those things really help a blog to fly.

By: broad@ broadband comparison

broad@ broadband comparison — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:45:01 +0000

I think using a cache plugin for wordpress can help speed things up for the visitor quite a bit.

I can’t remember the name of it, but there is one that is quite in depth, wp super cache, or something like that…

I am pretty sure a quick Google will find it

By: jack@Uk web hosting

jack@Uk web hosting — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:00:35 +0000

Great post. More people should read this one. I see people load sites up with images and website loads so slow people leave before it loads. You can also use thumbnails that lead to full images if you want alot on a page.

By: super sport camaros

super sport camaros — Wed, 27 May 2009 13:02:18 +0000

Thanks for the tips, we regularly install wordpress for our clients and this is a nobrainer that I didn’t even think of

By: Lyn@APC UPS

Lyn@APC UPS — Sat, 16 May 2009 21:43:37 +0000

Much of the tips are standard speed-optimization, but you mentioned something I never thought about before – that each http request results in a small amount of latency. Added up, a large number of http requests certainly can add significant latency time. I have a site that has 33 HTTP requests, resulting in 6.6 seconds of lag time, which is unacceptable. Thanks.

By: malcolm coles@wordpress duplicate content

malcolm coles@wordpress duplicate content — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 10:43:54 +0000

Does replacing various PHP bits in your templates (eg looking up your site’s name and description) with static text speed things up too (although you do then have to edit them manually)

By: Make it faster | www.redips.net

Make it faster | www.redips.net — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:02:16 +0000

Yes, you are right. Statical content can be lighter and that way visitors browser will spend less time to load all page parts. But slowness can be caused because of slow WEB application and that can be improved by easy magic

Just turn on MySQL caching and install PHP caching engine like APC. I made benchmarking before and after these two steps and the gain was about 150% on empty WordPress with no modules.

So if you have more articles and additional modules, you can expected even more.

By: Josh the Animes Dude

Josh the Animes Dude — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:27:31 +0000

I guess the problem with my blog, is that is is too graphicy…and that explains the high bounce rate on it…thanks for the mini tutorial