Wordpress Performance Optimization

If you have a WordPress blog you can now boost its performance! We apply memcaching or opcode caching and web site optimization methods to boost site performance – but you don’t have to do anything – just let us set it up and forget about it!

Improved performance will:

Increase Google search engine ranking
A faster site will encourage visitors to stay on it longer
Pages will appear immediately
Bandwidth savings
Pages, feeds, code and search results will be cached in memory so your users have less data to download, and you can have more visitors without upgrading your hosting!

Here is how it works:

Consolidation and minification of css and javascript files

WordPress, when configured with a lot of plugins and a custom theme, generates a lot of different CSS and JS files. When you serve them all separately, it’s less efficient than just serving one JS and one CSS file. This plugin consolidates all of your CSS and javascript into 2 files respectively, then “minifies” the code meaning it removes line-breaks and whitespaces and makes it as compact as possible.

Page Caching

The plugin generates static html files for all of your pages and serves those when possible. This is much faster and much more efficient than serving dynamic pages with many roundtrip queries to the database.

Option to serve images and css/js files over CDN (Content Delivery Network)

This is huge. You have the option to serve all of your image files and other static resources from a CDN like Amazon S3 or Amazon Cloudfront. There are other options as well. This means that images and js/css files are delivered nearly instantly to the client via these high-performance, optimized storage networks.

Database Caching, WordPress object Caching

Stores the result of expensive database queries and resource-intensive WordPress objects in a static cache on disk for much faster delivery and less drain on the back end database.

Can take advantage of memcached if the server allows it

This is another biggie. Memcached is pretty much the fastest possible way to serve content because the cache lives in the server’s RAM and not on a mechanical hard disk.

Can take advantage of opcode caching if the server allows it

Since php is an “interpreted” language that means php code has to be compiled into machine code (opcode) every single time the page is requested. An opcode cache stores the compiled machine code and can deliver the page request for millions of subsequent requests without recompiling.
We recommend this performance boost for every WordPress site! The cost is just $300. Call us for more information about how you can boost your WordPress site!