{"id":1108,"date":"2011-07-03T13:21:22","date_gmt":"2011-07-03T07:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mohamediqbalp.wordpress.com\/2011\/07\/03\/ultimate-guide-to-make-sites-super-fast\/"},"modified":"2011-07-03T13:21:22","modified_gmt":"2011-07-03T07:51:22","slug":"ultimate-guide-to-make-sites-super-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/venusimportexport.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/07\/03\/ultimate-guide-to-make-sites-super-fast\/","title":{"rendered":"Ultimate Guide To Make Sites Super Fast"},"content":{"rendered":"

Speed Up WordPress \u2013
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Ultimate Guide To Make Sites Super Fast<\/h1>\n

A good website should never compromise on the visitor\u2019s experience. \"speedupwpA Serious web<\/span><\/font><\/a>
publisher invests some time and resources to learn everything possible
about optimizing his website for speed. Who likes to browse through a
sluggish slow loading site? Most of the normal visitors leave the site,
unless the visitor is extremely interested in the content and related
things. More over google started considering the sites speed as a factor
in their search engine ranking logarithm. This guide will help you in reducing your sites server load, making your site faster<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Remember speeding up and optimizing your wordpress site<\/strong>
is not an easy process, it take a bit of time to make the changes
properly and safely. But its worth if you can spend the time. The time
taken will depend on your expertise in wordpress. Before making the
following changes my sites were taking around 11 \u2013 15 seconds to load. 
After implementing these changes the site takes less than 5 seconds to
load.<\/p>\n

Before starting with any thing, first take a complete back up of your theme files and your wordpress database<\/span><\/font><\/a>. Now go to http:\/\/tools.pingdom.com<\/a>
and enter your site url and do  a speed test to see how long does it
take for your website to load (You do speed test at last, after
implementing the changes in this guide to know the speed gain you have
obtained). Our aim is to reduce the load time and server load to a much
lesser value<\/span><\/font><\/a>.<\/p>\n

So lets start the Ultimate Guide To Make Your Site Super Fast<\/strong><\/p>\n

1) Remove Unnecessary PHP Queries and Database Access<\/h3>\n

Almost
all wordpress themes are made in such a way that there is minimal user
effort in configuring them. These themes comes with some generic php
codes, which can be easily replaced after we install it in our blog.
Removing these avoidable php queries will lessen your server load and
also make your site faster.<\/p>\n

For this first open the header.php <\/em><\/strong>files located in your current themes folder. You can do this by two ways, either by going to Appearence > Editor from <\/em>wp dashboard or by accessing the file directly using a FTP client and opening in Notepad or Notepad++.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll some thing like this in the header file.<\/p>\n

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<title><?php bloginfo(\u2018name\u2019); ?><\/strong> <?php bloginfo(\u2018description\u2019);?><\/strong><\/title><\/p>\n

<link rel=\u201dstylesheet\u201d type=\u201dtext\/css\u201d media=\u201dscreen\u201d href=\u201d<?php bloginfo(\u2018stylesheet_url\u2019); ?><\/strong>\u201c\/><\/p>\n

<link rel=\u201dshorcut icon\u201d type=\u201dimage\/png\u201d href=\u201d&lt?php bloginfo(\u2018template_url\u2019); ?><\/strong>\/favicon.jpg\u201d \/><\/p>\n

<link rel=\u201dalternate\u201d type=\u201dapplication\/rss+xml\u201d title=\u201dRSS Feed\u201d href=\u201d<?php bloginfo(\u2018rss_url\u2019); ?><\/strong>\u201d \/><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The
bolded items in this code is the php code. These five php commands are
executed each time, when your site gets loaded in the browser. Since we
dont want the theme to be portable anymore, we can replace these php
queries by corresponding html code. That\u2019s about 20 Times Faster Speed.<\/p>\n

To do this open your site in any browser for eg in chrome and press Ctrl + U <\/em>or select View Source<\/em> From the menu. With reference to the above example, you will see the source code of the site as<\/p>\n

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<title>Computing Unleashed<\/title><\/p>\n

<link
rel=\u201dstylesheet\u201d type=\u201dtext\/css\u201d media=\u201dscreen\u201d
href=\u201dhttp:\/\/iqsoft.co.in\/wp-content\/themes\/amalroy\/style.css\u201d\/><\/p>\n

<link
rel=\u201dshortcut icon\u201d
href=\u201dhttps:\/\/venusimportexport.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/themes\/amalroy\/favicon.png\u201d
type=\u201dimage\/png\u201d \/><\/p>\n

<link rel=\u201dalternate\u201d type=\u201dapplication\/rss+xml\u201d title=\u201dRSS Feed\u201d href=\u201diqsoft.co.in\/feed\/rss\/\u201d \/><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Now you might have got an idea about this. Now just copy these codes and replace it in header.php file <\/em>and save the file and you are done. You can now check for similar queries in footer.php, sidebar.php etc. and replace them.<\/p>\n

2) Remove Inactive Plugins<\/h3>\n

Most
of us are curious to try out new wordpress plugins.We deactivate them
if we are not happy with the results. There is a tendency for us to
leave those deactivated plugins in the plugin directory. Its better to
remove all those inactive plugins that you dont use. Also check for any
plugins that you have activated but not using, these can eat up
resources simply. So make the plugin directory clean and tidy. If you
feel that you might want to use those deactivated plugin later on, then
make a text document in the plugin directory with the list of plugins
you need later and you can safely delete those plugins which are not
needed now.<\/p>\n

3) Using a  FREE CDN (Content Delivery Network)<\/h3>\n

\"ContentA content delivery network is used by almost all popular websites like google, twitter, mashable etc. A content <\/span>delivery<\/span><\/font><\/a>
network (CDN) is a collection of web servers distributed across
multiple locations to deliver content more efficiently to users. The
user\u2019s proximity to your web server has an impact on response times.
Deploying your content across multiple, geographically dispersed servers<\/span><\/font><\/a> will make your pages load faster from the user\u2019s perspective.<\/p>\n

Using
a CDN network will improve your sites response time to a great extend.
But normal users find it difficult to afford a CDN service. But there
is a free alternative.<\/p>\n

CoralCDN allows us to take full advantage
of a powerful CDN without spending a dime. How to use it? Well,
basically, just append `.nyud.net` to the hostname of any URL, and that
URL will be handled by Coral.<\/p>\n

\"Content<\/p>\n

With the Free CDN<\/strong><\/a>
this job can be done easily. All you need to do is just install the
plugin and activate it. It will rewrite the JavaScripts, CSS, images
etc. for you. PLus it also  has option to exclude or include the files
your specify. It can be JavaScript\u2019s, CSS or specific pages.<\/p>\n

4) Keep Your WordPress Version Up To Date<\/h3>\n

With the release of new versions, wordpress keeps on improving on the whole. On each update wordpress developers<\/span><\/font><\/a>
put their effort in making wordpress faster and safer. So its very
necessary that you need to upgrade to the latest wordpress version to
get the performance improvements and new features.<\/p>\n

5) Compress the CSS Code<\/h3>\n

Compressing
your CSS Code will make it\u2019s size small and your browser can render it
faster and that results in faster page load times. Compressing the CSS
can be done in two ways. Either by doing it manually by using the
service CSS Drive<\/strong><\/a>. You have to manually copy-paste your css code from the style.css file<\/em> in their website and you will get the compressed version of it which you can paste back on the style.css file<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"CSS<\/p>\n

But if you make changes to your css code at times, then its better to use the WP CSS<\/strong><\/a>
plugin. Wp css plugin will automatically remove the white spaces and
compress your css files. Plus you will also have other options to set
expiry time for the files.<\/p>\n

6) Optimize the WordPress Database<\/h3>\n

Just like the hard disks the wordpress database also gets fragmented. So optimizing the wordpress database too can speed <\/span>up<\/span><\/font><\/a> your site.<\/p>\n

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