How to Speed Up Your WordPress Website

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How To Speed Up Your WordPress Website
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• Do you want to speed up your WordPress site? Want
  to know the WordPress optimization tricks that
  can help you reduce your site load time? In this
  PPT, we will show you how to speed up WordPress
  by sharing how we optimized our List 10 site to
  boost performance.

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1. IDENTIFY PLUGINS THAT ARE SLOWING YOU DOWN

• P3 is one of my favorite diagnostic plugins
  because it shows you the impact of your other
  plug-in on page-loading time. This makes it easy
  to spot any plug-in that are slowing down your
  website.
• Download it https//wordpress.org/plugins/p3-prof
  iler/

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2. COMPRESS YOUR WEBSITE

• Gzip automatically compresses your websites
  files as ZIP files, saving bandwidth and speeding
  up page-loading times. When a user visits your
  website, their browser will automatically unzip
  the files and show their contents. This method of
  transmitting content from the server to the
  browser is far more efficient and saves a lot of
  time.

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3.COMPRESS IMAGES

• Images take up the majority of bandwidth on most
  websites. WP Smush.it is another great plugin
  that automatically compresses images as you
  upload them to the media library. All compression
  is lossless, meaning that you wont notice any
  difference in the quality of images.

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4.LEVERAGE BROWSER CACHING

• Browser caching is a tricky issue, Expires
  headers tell the browser whether to request a
  particular file from the server or from the
  browsers cache. Of course, this only works if
  the user already has a version of your Web page
  stored in their cache so, the technique will
  speed up the website only for those who have
  already visited your website. To do this with a
  plugin, I recommend using WP Super Cache.
  However, following an installation guide is
  strongly recommended to ensure that you set it up
  correctly. 

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5. CLEAN UP THE DATABASE

• Im a big fan of how often WordPress autosaves
  everything, but the disadvantage is that your
  database will get filled with thousands of post
  revisions, trackbacks, pingbacks, unapproved
  comments and trashed items pretty quickly.
• The solution to this is a fantastic plugin
  called WP-Optimize, which routinely clears out
  your databases trash, keeping the database
  efficient and filled only with what needs to be
  kept. Of course, when doing anything to your
  database, always back up first.

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6. MINIFY CSS AND JAVASCRIPT FILES

• If youve installed more than a handful of
  plugins, chances are that your website links to
  10 to 20 individual style sheets and JavaScript
  files on every page. This is not ideal. Putting
  all JavaScript into one JavaScript file and all
  CSS in one CSS file is considerably more
  efficient.
• This is where minification comes in. Plugins such
  as Better WordPress Minify will combine all of
  your style sheets and JavaScript files into one,
  reducing the number of requests that the browser
  needs to make.

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7. TURN OFF PINGBACKS AND TRACKBACKS

• Pingbacks and trackbacks are methods used by
  WordPress to alert other blogs that your posts
  link to. While sometimes interesting, they can be
  a drain on page speed and are usually better
  turned off. You can turn them off under the
  Discussion tab in Settings.

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8. SPECIFY IMAGE DIMENSIONS AND CHARACTER SETS

• Before a visitors browser can display your Web
  page, it has to figure out how to lay out the
  content around the images. Without knowing the
  size of these images, the browser has to figure
  it out, causing it to work harder and take
  longer.
• For the same reason, specifying a character set
  in your HTTP response headers is useful, so that
  the browser doesnt have to spend extra time
  working out which one youre using. Simply add
  the character set to your websites head section.

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9. MOVE CSS TO THE TOP AND JAVASCRIPT TO THE
BOTTOM

• Linking to your style sheets as close to the top
  of the page as possible is widely recommended
  because browsers wont render a page before
  rendering the CSS file. JavaScript, on the other
  hand, should be as close to the bottom of the
  footer as possible because it prevents browsers
  from parsing anything after it until it has full
  loaded.
• In the majority of cases, this simple fix will
  improve page-loading speed by forcing files to be
  downloaded in the optimal order. But it can cause
  issues on websites that rely heavily on
  JavaScript and that require JavaScript files to
  load before the user sees any of the page.

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10. USE CSS SPRITES

• A sprite is essentially one large image file that
  contains all of your individual images next to
  each other. Using CSS, you can hide everything in
  the image except for the section you need, by
  specifying a set of coordinates.
• The easiest solution is SpriteMe, a tool that
  turns all of your images into a CSS sprite.
• Remember that Safari does not load large sprites,
  so use William Malones calculator to identify
  whether your sprite is too large.

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11. ENABLE KEEP ALIVE

• HTTP Keep Alive refers to the message that is
  sent between the clients machine and the Web
  server asking for permission to download a file.
  Enabling Keep Alive allows the clients machine
  to download multiple files without having to
  repeatedly ask for permission, thus saving
  bandwidth.
• To enable Keep Alive, simply copy and paste the
  code below into your .htaccess file.
• Header set Connection keep-alive

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12. REPLACE PHP WITH STATIC HTML WHERE APPROPRIATE

• PHP is great for making a website efficient and
  reducing the need to enter the same information
  multiple times. However, calling information
  through PHP uses up server resources and should
  be replaced with static HTML where it doesnt
  save any time.

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Tips

• Plug-in are good but if there are too many, your
  blog is in a serious problem. It is not the
  beauty of your blog, it is the content that you
  write which gets noticed by people as well as
  search engines.
• Check your blog's load time regularly so that you
  can prevent a good number of unique visitors from
  being discouraged..
• Note that paid servers will be faster than non
  paid servers. So if you have a large blog it is
  recommended to get premium hosting.
• Always try to minimize the use of JavaScript in
  the blog. They can make your blog seriously slow.

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Resources

• http//www.smashingmagazine.com/2014/06/25/how-to-
  speed-up-your-wordpress-website/
• http//www.sparringmind.com/speed-up-wordpress/