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By: zplits

zplits — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 02:09:38 +0000

Hello John, good day!
You really have a nice articles. Could you please clarify what should we change? I mean in this code:

What should we change in there to make it static? and which .php files contains it.

Thank you very much.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 20:05:32 +0000

my tipps:
- reduce the requests with css- and js – files
- reduce images
- optimize all images (reduce the size from the images, maybe reduce the compression)
- use a php accelerator

than is wordpress very quick

By: MoiN

MoiN — Sat, 24 May 2008 18:01:54 +0000

Nice write, John

Implemented a few since I needed these (After confronting the digg effect :S)

By: Vladimir Kosinets

Vladimir Kosinets — Thu, 08 May 2008 10:43:40 +0000

Using WP-Cache you’ll increase load speed because you’ll reduce page generation time. The HTML will be generated when the first user comes to your page. The it will be stored on the server. In the future when users request this page the HTML won’t be generated again. It will be taken from the cache directory.

This means that no body except the first visitor will wait until the HTMl is generated. This means that there is no reason to (#5) remove necessary php includes from your templates. Also there is no reason to remove plugins like Recent Comments. The HTML generated by such plugins will be cached too.

The main things you should care of are:
- caching with WP-Cache
- gzip / compress css and javascript
- use server-side gzip encoding for HTML also
- image combining

By: david

david — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:36:15 +0000

my site has been loading slowly for the past couple days ever since I’ve been working on the design. How do I go about doing step 5? what exactly are the static values for php?

By: jen

jen — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 06:55:26 +0000

I just got my first CPU overload message (that I know of anyway) and it freaked me out because I never thought this would happen. Of course I’m trying to find out how to rectify and these tips will help. Thanks.

By: Stephen Cronin

Stephen Cronin — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 03:33:22 +0000

Some useful tips here, but to expand on the first comment, there are really two different things we’re talking about here:

1. server load (ie exceeding CPU usage)
2. page load time for the reader

Some of the tips will help issue 1, some will help issue 2. The title of post indicates this is about issue 2, but the intro is really about issue 2.

So useful tips, but the purpose of the post is confusing…

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