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Optimizing WordPress Performance on Shared Web Hosting
This document discusses performance tweaks that can be made for WordPress sites on shared hosting. It is divided into three acts: inside WordPress, on the shared server, and off the shared server. Inside WordPress, it recommends right-sizing images, checking for 404 errors, keeping the database under control, and using caching plugins. On the shared server, it suggests updating to newer PHP versions, cleaning up the database, and using CloudFlare. Off the server, it only recommends using CDNs like CloudFlare for their free benefits.
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- 1. Performance Tweaks for Shared Hosting Jon Brown j.Brown Studios @jb510 http://jbrownstudios.com Saturday, October 6, 12
- 2. Tweaking WP Performance in 3 acts Act 1 - Inside WordPress Act 2 - On your Shared Server Act 3 - O! your Shared Server Saturday, October 6, 12
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- 4. What am Igoing to cover today? Performance Tweaks you can make on or with most shared hosting (not that they won’t help on any hosting) Saturday, October 6, 12
- 5. What am Inot going to talk about today? Geeky tweaks that are only suitable to VPS/Dedicated servers (ie. APC, Memcached, Hyper DB, etc...) Saturday, October 6, 12
- 6. Where to gofor the advanced stu!? http://wordpress.tv/ http://www.slideshare.net/ Joseph Scott Barry Abrahamson Ilya Grigorik Iliya Polihronov and many others... Saturday, October 6, 12
- 7. Measuring Performance • It’s hard to impossible to measure performance on shared servers • How to measure anyway... http://www.webpagetest.org Saturday, October 6, 12
- 8. Why not useyour browser tools? • FireBug • YSlow • PageSpeed • WebKit DevTools, • etc... Saturday, October 6, 12
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- 11. The challenge with shared hosting • Con"gured to run just about any type of web site • Generalized not optimized • Many performance tweaks available to dedicated/VPS hosting can’t be made • Some performance tweaks you can make... starting in WordPress Saturday, October 6, 12
- 12. The goal ofall opitimization • Reduce HTTP requests • Reduce total data transfer • Reduce CPU load • Avoid Bottlenecks Saturday, October 6, 12
- 13. Act 1 Tweaking inside WordPress Saturday, October 6, 12
- 14. Inside WordPress 1. Right size/compress images 2. Check for 404’s 3. Keep your DB under control 4. Caching inside WordPress Saturday, October 6, 12
- 15. Right sizing images • Upload the maximum pixel size you want to display, not larger • Compress JPGs to 60-70% (aka 7 out of 12 in PhotoShop) • Use WP Smush.it on already uploaded images to "x your past mistakes Saturday, October 6, 12
- 16. Checking for 404’s WebPageTest.org or FireBug / Webkit Dev Tools Saturday, October 6, 12
- 17. Keep your DBunder control • Optimize DB Plugin - WP DB Manager http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ wp-dbmanager/ • Tame Revisions Plugin - Revision Control http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ revision-control/ Saturday, October 6, 12
- 18. Caching WordPress • W3 Total Cache • WP Super Cache • WP Minify • Others... Saturday, October 6, 12
- 19. W3TC Con"g Guides • http://c3mdigital.com/reduce-page- loading-time-w3-total-cache/ • http://headwaythemes.com/screencast- tuesday-using-w3-total-cache-part-1/ • http://www.kidnapcustomers.com/how- to-make-a-website/w3-total-cache- settings-wordpress-speed/ Saturday, October 6, 12
- 20. W3TC Do’s &Dont’s for shared hosting • Do test settings • Don’t assume turning everything up to 11 will work well... it won’t. • Do take the time to "gure out minifying and combing "les it makes a huge di!erence • Don’t forget to prime your cache Saturday, October 6, 12
- 21. W3TC Minify Settings Try Auto (Performance>General Settings) Saturday, October 6, 12
- 22. W3TC Manual Minify Use Manual (Performance>Min"y) Lists all your CSS and JS for easy manual addition and ordering Saturday, October 6, 12
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- 25. Act 2 On your Shared Hosting Server Saturday, October 6, 12
- 26. On your Server 1. PHP Version 2. DB Cleanup 3. Cloud#are (if your lucky) Saturday, October 6, 12
- 27. Switch to anewer version of PHP “PHP 5.2 to 5.3 - WordPress 15% faster” ~ Dmitry Stogov http://news.php.net/ php.internals/36484 PHP 5.4 is even faster Saturday, October 6, 12
- 28. How to changePHP versions • Ask your web host... • In cPanel "nd PHP Con"g • Sometimes set in .htaccess via AddHandler Saturday, October 6, 12
- 29. PHP 5.2 -5.3 - 5.4 Saturday, October 6, 12
- 30. Keep Your DBunder control • PHPMyAdmin to Optimize MySQL Tables if you didn’t want to use the WP DB Manager plugin to do it Saturday, October 6, 12
- 31. CloudFlare free awesomeness CDN + Site Optimizer + Security Saturday, October 6, 12
- 32. Some Host Integrating CloudFlare with cPanel • http://www.cloud#are.com/hosting- partners (DreamHost, BlueHost, many more...) Saturday, October 6, 12
- 33. Enable CloudFlare in your cPanel Saturday, October 6, 12
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- 35. W3 Total Cache can control CloudFlare Saturday, October 6, 12
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- 37. Act 3 O! your Shared Hosting Server Saturday, October 6, 12
- 38. O! your server 1. CDNs (CloudFlare is Free) Saturday, October 6, 12
- 39. CloudFlare CDN + Optimizer + Security Saturday, October 6, 12
- 40. Setup Cloud#are 1. Setup CloudFlare account (free) 2. Have CloudFlare scan your DNS records (check your records) 3. Repoint your nameservers 4. Done Saturday, October 6, 12
- 41. Why • Reduces requests to your server • Reduces requests to your CDN if you use one • Adds security • Optimizer features (I use W3TC) Saturday, October 6, 12
- 42. So where doesit get us? Saturday, October 6, 12
- 43. Where we started 1 2 3 Saturday, October 6, 12
- 44. W3TC Mini"cation 1 2 3 Saturday, October 6, 12
- 45. W3TC + CloudFlare 1 2 3 Saturday, October 6, 12