Speed Up WordPress Websites - Part 1 - WordPress Cairo Meetup

Serving up content on the Internet is something our web sites do daily. But are we doing this in the fastest way possible? How are users in faraway countries experiencing our apps? Why do we have three webservers serving the same content over and over again? In this session, we’ll explore the Azure Content Delivery Network or CDN, a service which makes it easy to serve up blobs, videos and other content from servers close to our users. We’ll explore simple file serving as well as some more advanced, dynamic edge caching scenarios.

Some practical ways to speed up your WordPress website. Looking at plugins, configurations, do's & don'ts, server software and hardware changes.

Apache is the most popular web server in the world, yet its default configuration can't handle high traffic. Learn how to setup Apache for high performance sites and leverage many of its available modules to deliver a faster web experience for your users. Discover how Apache can max out a 1 Gbps NIC and how to serve over 140,000 pages per minute with a small Apache cluster. This presentation was given by Spark::red's founding partner Devon Hillard in March 2012 at the Boston Web Performance Meetup.

The document discusses techniques for improving the performance of WordPress sites. It begins by providing background on WordPress.com and how it has grown significantly. It then discusses different hosting options for WordPress sites from shared hosting to virtual private servers (VPS) to dedicated servers. For each option, it provides recommendations for plugins, caching, and other optimizations that can be applied. It also covers more advanced techniques for scaling WordPress by using multiple servers, load balancing, object caching, and database replication. Overall, the document serves as a guide to optimizing WordPress performance across different hosting scenarios.

Covers some of the important things to consider, such as hosting options, caching, content delivery networks, and speed testing for optimizing the performance of your WordPress website.

An overview of caching, optimization, and performance measurement tips. Presented to the Detroit WordPress Meetup on April 10, 2017.

The document discusses various techniques for optimizing performance of a Mura CMS website. It covers server tuning including optimizing the web server configuration, compressing static assets, and setting far future expires headers. It also discusses Java Virtual Machine tuning and database optimization. For Mura tuning, it recommends settings in the Mura admin such as enabling site caching and restricting access. It provides code examples for optimizing primary navigation, using the CacheOMatic tag, implementing CfStatic, and using ShowTrace for debugging.

My slides from WordCamp Dhaka 2019 on WordPress Scaling. In this session I explained performance optimisation using HTTP/2, Caching and compressing resources. I also explained how to Dockerize WordPress to make it easier to scale.

This session is recommended for people who are new to content distribution networks (CDNs) and have a need to decrease server load and speed up their website’s load time. In this mid-level technical session you will be able to learn more about improving the performance of web sites and web applications using Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Router 53. Learn how to assess whether your web applications will benefit from caching and how to optimize the delivery of static and dynamic content to boost performance and improve your customers' experience in using your applications.

As I’ve mentioned in many of my WordPress tutorials, it is of utmost importance to optimize your site in terms of speed (and not only). One of the easiest ways to do this is to use a content delivery network (or CDN), which not only helps make your site faster, but also increases security.

The document discusses techniques for improving web performance, including reducing time to first byte, using content delivery networks and HTTP compression, caching resources, keeping connections alive and reducing request sizes. It also covers optimizing images, loading JavaScript asynchronously to avoid blocking, and prefetching content. The overall goal is to reduce page load times and improve user experience.

This document discusses optimizing WordPress performance. It notes that WordPress.com handles 2 terabytes of uploads with 450 terabytes of bandwidth serving 1 billion dynamic pageviews. It recommends front-end optimizations like caching and database optimizations like adding multiple databases behind a load balancer to improve performance for high traffic WordPress sites.

Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Route 53 can help optimize web application performance and availability. CloudFront improves performance by caching static and reusable content at edge locations and optimizing delivery of dynamic content through features like keep-alive connections and latency-based routing. Route 53 provides fast, reliable DNS services and can health check origins to improve high availability. Together, CloudFront and Route 53 provide a global network that caches content close to users and routes traffic based on network conditions to optimize performance and design for failure.

The website speed makes the first impression about your business. It’s essential to understand that you won’t get a second chance when it comes to user experience. Low website speed is one of the most frustrating things that will turn people off about your resource. High-performance websites results in high return visits, low bounce rates, higher conversions, engagement, higher ranks in organic search, and better user experience. By reducing the page load time you will positively impact marketing and sales processes. You’ll get higher traffic and attract more qualified leads that can be converted into customers.

This document discusses how LinkedIn is adopting SPDY to improve website speed. It begins with an overview of LinkedIn and how speed matters for their business. It then discusses challenges with the existing HTTP protocol, such as latency and limited requests. The document introduces SPDY as a replacement for HTTP that allows multiplexing of requests over a single connection, server push of resources, and header/compression optimizations. The rest of the document discusses how LinkedIn is deploying SPDY, finding performance improvements over CDNs for certain pages/regions, and their plans to combine SPDY with CDNs for faster content delivery globally.

Web application optimization techniques include optimizing at the application layer through database optimization, query caching, and code caching. Optimization also occurs at the presentation layer through cache control and minifying web content. Browsers cache resources using headers and validation of cached resources occurs periodically. Tools like Yslow and Firebug can analyze performance, and web servers can be tuned through expiration headers, gzip/deflate compression, and other techniques.

Jared Smith presented tips for optimizing WordPress performance. He recommends first getting the most out of existing resources through caching plugins and settings, which can improve page speeds and reduce server load. Frontend optimizations like minifying files, lazy-loading scripts, and using a content delivery network can further boost performance. For high-traffic sites, moving to managed WordPress hosting or a virtual private server provides more control and flexibility compared to shared hosting. Ongoing measurement using tools like YSlow and PageSpeed Insights helps identify remaining bottlenecks.

This document summarizes Andy Melichar's presentation at WordCamp Omaha about optimizing WordPress performance. He began with introductions and explained his background in web development. He then discussed common performance issues hosting companies see and why performance matters for user experience and revenue. Andy outlined key areas to optimize like WordPress plugins/themes, web server configuration, and using content delivery networks. He demonstrated the significant impact of enabling caching, compression, browser caching and switching to Nginx on a test site's performance. In the end, Andy emphasized there are many options to try and the WordPress community can help with configurations.

How To Dramatically Speed Up Your Website Using A Caching Plugin If you’re tired of having to wait for your website to load on your browser each and every single time, then your customers and clients are probably even more annoyed than you. But, of course, they don’t have access to your website’s backend, so they can’t do anything about your site’s speed. They’re technically at your mercy if they choose to wait for your site to load. However, chances are they’re going to just up and leave your site altogether, never to be seen again. No matter how good your content is and how awesome your products are, if your site is slow, then you’re going to get dismal conversion rates, if at all. The question is, why would you subject your visitors to torturous waiting when they don’t have to? The thing is there are plenty of ways you can follow to speed up your website – and web caching is probably one of the most important methods all webmasters should follow. While those who’ve been building sites for a long time probably already know all about caching, a novice webmaster may feel overwhelmed. Admittedly, web caching can be quite technical, and it is but normal to feel like a deer stuck in headlights!

Floyd Smith and the team from NGINX presented at the Wordpress San Francisco MeetUp group in June 2016. In this presentation, he illustrated how NGINX can vastly improve your Wordpress hosting performance.

This document summarizes a presentation on optimizing Joomla performance. It describes two parts to the presentation: Part 1 covers basic application-level optimizations for Joomla like keeping Joomla updated, choosing extensions wisely, simplifying templates, and using plugins and .htaccess rules to enable caching and compression. Part 2 discusses server-level optimizations like using a CDN, opcode caching with APC and Memcached, and reverse proxy servers like Nginx and Varnish. It provides configuration examples and presents results of benchmark tests showing improvements from optimizations.

Traditionally, content delivery networks (CDNs) were known to accelerate static content. Amazon CloudFront has come a long way and now supports delivery of entire websites that include dynamic and static content. In this session, we introduce you to CloudFront’s dynamic delivery features that help improve the performance, scalability, and availability of your website while helping you lower your costs. We talk about architectural patterns such as SSL termination, close proximity connection termination, origin offload with keep-alive connections, and last-mile latency improvement. Also learn how to take advantage of Amazon Route 53's health check, automatic failover, and latency-based routing to build highly available web apps on AWS.

In this PDF, you will learn how to build a website similar to WorldstarHipHop and turn it into a successful video sharing community.

hether you run a high traffic WordPress installation or a small blog on a low cost shared host, you should optimize WordPress and your server to run as efficiently as possible. This article provides a broad overview of WordPress optimization with specific recommended approaches. However, it's not a detailed technical explanation of each aspect.