Any Tips on How to Speed up a Wordpress Site?

James2 said:
I found W3 Total Cache actually slowed things up tbh, Some good things coming through here though. Going to try some and post results.

Thanks guys.

James :)
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http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackhat-seo/blogging/581979-your-wordpress-site-slow.html#post5758437
http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackhat-seo/blogging/581979-your-wordpress-site-slow.html#post5758443

I see you have already checked out my thread, even before I posted the reply above. If nothing of these are helping then it's time to switch host, it's not just about quantity in space and bandwidth, there is also hardware speed to keep in mind. I find Stablehost to be very good.
 
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Junkfood00 said:
http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackhat-seo/blogging/581979-your-wordpress-site-slow.html#post5758437
http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackhat-seo/blogging/581979-your-wordpress-site-slow.html#post5758443

I see you have already checked out my thread, even before I posted the reply above. If nothing of these are helping then it's time to switch host, it's not just about quantity in space and bandwidth, there is also hardware speed to keep in mind. I find Stablehost to be very good.
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I did and not much change. Think bluehost has to go.

Cheers,

James :)
 
Sorry, can't thank any more today for some reason.
 
It could be your hosting's limited bandwidth that is slowing down your Wordpress sites. Contact your hosting support to increase the bandwidth of your hosting plan.
 
PM me your website URL (if it's ok with you) I'll tell you what's the issue and how to fix it.
 
A lot of things has to be done in order to make your site load blazingly fast without cache. Cache is not a good solution for a few reason. I will be posting a guide on this as I think it will help a lot of people.

Just as a tip, try to make as fewer http requests as possible. Use sprite images where possible. Compress all your javascript files into one single file and do the same for css too. I will try to detail it all. Till then stay tuned :)
 
Agreed, plus rep Arthur and plus rep Yogi. PM on the way, thanks :)
 
And g0g01: Thanks too, but for some reason there's no thanks button there for you.
 
The thanks button came back. What is that about?
 
I had the same problem with social share buttons.Try to disable them if they are integrated in your theme and install digg digg.Other than that, i have the same setup as you with hostwinds and got good speed :).Just my 2 cents.
 
I have very good experience with the service MaxCDN. Now my website loads in 3 seconds and less (I use Bluehost and 9 plugins). It works pretty well. If you have a larger budget, you could also try a better web hosting such as WebSynthesis, WP Engine etc.
 
Bluehost and hostgator are the same company and they have gone to shit. You can play about with cdn and cacheing all you want. Anything on those hosts is a slowload. One of my hostgator sites is using the google pagespeed service and still takes two seconds to load.

I got a new hosting package with a company called letshost in Ireland for 49euros a year and every site I have put up has blown hostgator out of the water.

Thinking of trying this crowd out
https://www.digitalocean.com/
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Will let you know how it works out.
 
Duffers5000 said:
Bluehost and hostgator are the same company and they have gone to shit. You can play about with cdn and cacheing all you want. Anything on those hosts is a slowload. One of my hostgator sites is using the google pagespeed service and still takes two seconds to load.

I got a new hosting package with a company called letshost in Ireland for 49euros a year and every site I have put up has blown hostgator out of the water.

Thinking of trying this crowd out Will let you know how it works out.
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Eur 49 a year?! Jeez.
 
You can use firebug to see what request takes a long time to load.
The best optimization you can do is to smush all images, move all the javascript in the footer (this is really important, because if they are in the header and let's say you have 4 external js files they will block the rest of the page from loading, and it will only continue after the js finished loading), if you have multiple javascript file and multiple css files combine them into one css file and one javascript file, if you have alot of images on the same page use lazyload, enable gzip and allow browser chaching. And you can even mimify the page it will save a few kb.

And If you really feel like it you can use sprites to combine all images need for the design such as bg,menu,and others into one or two sprites although, it's a pain in the ass to do this

After you've done everything you can, removed everything that is unecessary you can go for a cdn if you have visits from diferent continents, if you have only EU visits it's best to go with a server that is in EU, Netherlands have great bandwidth and great prices.
 
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