01/11/2014
Speed up your WP Website..
When it comes to creating a prevalent and lucrative website, your primary focus should always be on the user experience.
That should go without saying, and yet so many webmasters seem to ignore what is considered to be the golden rule of website creation.
The myriad ways in which you can improve the user experience on your WordPress website
The following actionable tips all focus upon design, usability and content. If you take nothing else from this post, recognize that your focus should always be on those three things when it comes to designing, maintaining, optimizing and updating your WordPress website
Use an effective caching plugin
List of plugins
1. W3 Total Cache (URL : http://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/)
2.WP Super Cache (URL : http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-super-cache/)
3.Hyper Cache (URL : http://wordpress.org/plugins/hyper-cache/)
Use a content delivery network (CDN)
It takes all your static files you’ve got on your site (CSS, Javascript and images etc) and lets visitors download them as fast as possible by serving the files on servers as close to them as possible.
Optimize images (automatically)
Drastically reduce the file size of an image, while not reducing quality.
List of the plugin:
WP Smush.it (URL : http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-smush*t/)
Optimize WordPress database
Optimize the database (spam, post revisions, drafts, tables, etc.) to reduce their overhead.
Plugins are as follows:
WP-Optimize (URL : http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-optimize/)
WP-DBManager (URL : http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-dbmanager/)
Disable hot linking and leeching of your content.
Hot linking is a form of bandwidth “theft.” It occurs when other sites direct link to the images on your site from their articles making your server load increasingly high.
Add LazyLoad to your images.
LazyLoad is the process of having only the images above the fold load (i.e. only the images visible in the visitor’s browser window), then, when reader scrolls down, the other images begin to load, just before they come into view.
Plugins are as follows:
jQuery Image Lazy Load WP (URL : http://wordpress.org/plugins/jquery-image-lazy-loading/)
BJ Lazy Load (URL : http://wordpress.org/plugins/bj-lazy-load/)
Control the amount of post revisions stored
Make sure to keep post revisions to a minimum, set it to 2 or 3 so you have something to fall back on in case you make a mistake, but not too high that you clutter your backend with unnecessary amounts of drafted posts. Plugins are as follows,
Revision Control (URL : http://wordpress.org/plugins/revision-control/)
Turn off pingbacks and trackbacks
Use CloudFlare
Trim Down Server Requests
Trimming down the number of items or off-loading content to a second server can dramatically improve performance because a server can only handle a certain number of requests at a given time.
For ex. upload the videos to YouTube, Google Video, Viddler or any other video hosting site and then use their embedding function to play back the video from their servers within your page.
If you have content you want to embed in your site, look for an external partner where you can upload the content and use their servers to absorb the load from within your page.
Remove unnecessary plugins
Rogue plugins can also be horrible for performance, even if they are not enabled. So if you have plugins installed but not activated – delete them from the plugins directory on the server. As long as they are there they have to be examined even if they are inactive.
zlib Compression to boost up your WP site.
Empty your WordPress Trash
Minify CSS and JS files. Plugin is as follows,
WP Minify (URL: http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-minify/)
