Speeding Up Your Wordpress Site
Jun 13th, 2008 by Martin Lee
These are two great ways to speed up your blog. Remember, the faster your site loads, the less likely new visitors to your site will hit the “back” button.
1) Install the wordpress super-cache plugin
This helps to create static html cache pages for your site.
2) Change some of the references to the database in your wordpress theme header file to static text. If you won’t be changing any of your site’s settings, then it really shouldn’t matter.
For example, you can change
- change your stylesheet URL
- change your pingback URL
- change your feed URL
- remove the blog’s WordPress version
- change your blog’s name and description
These changes can speed up the loading of your theme significantly.
3) The same thing can be done for your footer file.
- Your blog’s name
- RSS feed URL
- Comment RSS feed URL
I made some of these changes on my heavy traffic sites and the difference is significant. :)
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Wow, i am making these changes and can see the speed of how my pages load quicker… it will take some time to show the results but i can bet that i will be having fewer viewers surfing the net leaving in the first page… in fact, i believe that by tweaking this, i will actually get overall improvements on my site… www.mylangleyrealestate.com
thanks for your tips!
Hi Martin
Thank for the tip. Any disadvantage with this plug in installed ?
Cheers :P
Hi Johnny,
The only disadvantage is that if you set your cache period to too long, your users might not see the latest update immediately.