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How to optimize and speedup your WordPress blog

August 30, 2010 |

There are various ways to make your WordPress blog super speedy. Follow these 20 steps to make your WordPress blog rocket fast. We all know that slow sites may be penalized by search engines. So follow these steps and make your WordPress blog super fast.
1. Check your Blog loading time
First of all check your blog loading time from HERE. If your page load time is less than 2 seconds then I think no need to optimize your website or blog. But if it is 8 seconds or more then you must try to bring its speed to 2 seconds.
2. Minimize dynamic PHP and database queries
Try to replace PHP queries with HTML code. Fow example you can replace PHP query in your header.php file of your theme with static HTML code.

Try to put static path of your CSS and javascript files instead of referring them by PHP script as shown below
@import url( );
3. Update Regularly
Update your WordPress regularly because every update comes with performance enhancement.
4. Disable Unused Plugins
Disable unused plugins which are activated but your don’t want those.
5. Reduce White-Spaces
Reducing white-spaces will improve loading time of your page.
Example of whitespace:
.theme font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; color: #2233FF;
Example with less whitespace:
.theme font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15px; color: #2233FF;
6. Use external Scripts
Use external javascripts and avoid writing script in header page because if external script will be there then browser will load that script in cache and pages will take less time if it is using same script.
Example of using external script

7. Make static URLs
Make following URL static in your header.php file

Stylesheet URL
Pingback URL
feed URL

8. Remove Generator code
Remove WordPress version display from header.php i.e.

9. Minimize external website’s scripts
Try to minimize external call of Amazon, eBay, facebook, twitter, digg, etc. If possible try to put simple link to these since if you are putting javascript code for button of these then your page will take lot of time to load.
10. Reduce image size
Check your images size including logo. Try to minimize size of logo (here I mean reducing image size in KB not in its dimension)
11. Display less posts per page
Try to display less number of posts in home page or category page. You may put page number button to open next page for displaying more posts.
12. Host images/media on other server
Try to host your images on image hosting server like flickr, photobucket etc. These server have capability to handle lot of load which your small/shared server can’t.
13. Don’t upload videos on your server
Do not upload videos on your server. Upload your videos on youtube.
14. Compress Scripts
Compress your JavaScript upto 60% from here.
15. Compress CSS
Compress your CSS by using this plugin.
16. Validate your page
Validate your blog/page from W3C to find any issue which might be making your blog too slow.
17. Use progressive rendering
Use progressive rendering by loading CSS file at the top of your page and loading JavaScript at the bottom of your page (near end of HTML tag )
18. Use IFrameWidget plugin
You may use IFrameWidgets WordPress Plugin that can stop slow loading JavaScript widgets from breaking your page.
19. Repair your database
Use this WordPress plugin to repair your database by checking all tables and fix and errors.
20. Use WordPress caching plugins
Use WP Super Cache WordPress Plugin to cache your pages so that no need to dynamically create page every-time.
Do not forget to compare your blog loading time before changes and after changes from Pingdom and Website Speed Test
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Rahul is a part time blogger from Chennai, India. He is a software engineer. His areas of Interest are Computers, Programming, and Blogging. He is masters in computer science from BITS Pilani.
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