How to speed up my wordpress website?

[ethany]

Hi guys, I have some wordpress site which use to publish blog. However I found that all of my websites run slow now. Anyone know how to reduce the loading time of wordpress platform?

 

[wedge1001]

vps or shared-hosting?
if vps:
change from apache to nginx
fast_cgi-cache.

additional on vps / on shared-hosting:
try w3total cache
check your design and your plugins. the lesser plugins the better.
try to minimize queries to google etc. pp

 

[HMB Mitesh]

You should try following things, I guarantee that using even a few will help to speed up your WordPress site:

- Use an effective caching plugin like W3 Total Cache
- Use a Conent Delivery Network [CDN]
- Optimize images, there is one plugin called WP-SmushIt
- Optimize your database, there is one plugin called WP-Optimize
- Try to reduce number of plugins.
- And last but not the list, keep your Wordpress installation updated.

 

[CK13]

The number of plugins is not an issue, what they do can be.

The only caching/performance plugin i use is wp-redis (need to have redis-server and phpredis installed on server),
while w3tc and other caching plugins that create html files for your posts and pages make your site load faster they can also make some plugins useless because of this.

An easy to use alternative to w3tc and wp super cache is Cache Enabler - WordPress Caching.

 

[TB Ann]

Change server.......

 

[unixguru]

A caching plugin is probably worth while. We recommend zen-cache for blogs with less than 5,000 unique visitors a day.

 

[kevos]

1.Server
2.Plugin
3.Cache

 

[zohoman]

I would make sure to optimize images and get a good fast server.

 

[unixguru]

Find a LiteSpeed host and use the LiteSpeed plugin.
It's faster than anything else out there.

+1 for optimised images on a CDN.

Also good to have a host which can provide multi-CPU accounts, so you can scale if you get even more visitors.

 

[7ibr]

w3 total cache plugin and autoptimize plugin.

 

[MHostR]

It depends how slow is your site.
But if you want to go with a simple solution, i recommend to try Cloudflare CDN.

 

[GautamNagraj]

Cache Plugins

Use [FONT=proxima_nova_rgregular]W3Total cache Plugin, it will help you to load faster your site.[/FONT]

 

[jackychen92]

You should reduce the size of your plugin as well.
At the same time you should buy a good host