Comments on: Slow WordPress Blog Speedup Tips

By: Epic Traffic Systems Review

Epic Traffic Systems Review — Sun, 30 May 2010 08:46:28 +0000

Thanks for the tips on 500 Internal Error! I have had that problem too.

Another tips, probably you should try Thesis theme. It keeps the scripts simple and therefore not much memories are needed.

By: Legendas

Legendas — Fri, 21 May 2010 14:53:20 +0000

One other think people could do is using the Google CDN for loading up the javascript files.

Google servers are way fast and have a low latency, and it´s difficult to have any server failing.
Files link and info here http://code.google.com/intl/pt/apis/ajaxlibs/

This is the Libraries they host
jQuery
jQuery UI
Prototype
script.aculo.us
MooTools
Dojo
SWFObject
Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI)
Ext CoreNew!
Chrome FrameNew!
WebFont LoaderNew!

By: Brad

Brad — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:58:11 +0000

Super Cache really does speed up a blog. I noticed my blog taking ages to load, but as soon as I installed Super Cache my blog loading time hit the floor.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:52:53 +0000

Thanks so much for the tips. I have been having load issues with one of my blogs and one of the couple things I used from this post did the trick.

Thanks alot!

By: eCommerce

eCommerce — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:13:32 +0000

I’ll add 2 more tips:
- a lighter sitemap, there is no need to take like 20 seconds for building process
- don’t need to ping 100 services, Google and Pingomatic are more than enough

And W3 Total Cache is smoother than WP Super Cache

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 07:27:43 +0000

Hi, great article & much needed with Googles recent focus on page loading times.
One thing I discovered a few weeks ago when struggling to reduce my page load times, was the fact that many of these recent visitor widgets from the likes of MyBlogLog,BlogCatalog & FaceBook are real killers when it comes to slowing down your site.
Funnily enough one of the worst culprits I found was actually the 300 x 250 ad-block from adsense which I had in my sidebar ! This has now been removed from my side bar and now only displays at the top left of a post / article. I find it amusing that Google should be so critical when they are actually contributing to the problem.

Keep Up The great work

Steve

By: Ron

Ron — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:43:53 +0000

Thanks for the post. I have never heard of WP-DBManager. i will have to give it a try.

I do know the default WP-Cache plug-in is not as good as it should be.

I have switched to the HyperCache WordPress caching plugin, and I have found it to be more efficient then WP-super Cache on my blog. I am sure mileage may vary however.

thanks for the tips.

By: matt darbuka

matt darbuka — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 05:45:04 +0000

cheers for that. I am going to try Gzip compression thanks Thomas.

By: Thomas Griffin

Thomas Griffin — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:41:37 +0000

I’ve used all those tips and now my page gets an A with Yslow for the blog setting! I’m pumped about that Gzip compression is also very helpful for speeding up page load time.

By: Roy Jones

Roy Jones — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:25:37 +0000

I had supercache installed but when making changes its a little annoying