WordPress Optimization/Cheat Sheet

This is a quick list of the key areas in which WordPress can be optimized. The biggest gain for the least effort comes from caching.

Below are the action items you can do to optimize your WordPress site and reduce your page loading time.

• Server Optimization
  • DNS onto a separate server
  • Web Server optimization
  • PHP acceleration / optimization
  • MySQL tweaking (query cache, etc)
• WordPress Performance
  • Remove unused plugins
  • Optimize plugins
  • Optimize themes, hardcode static vars, etc
• Offloading
  • Offload static files to separate server
  • Optimized web servers like publicfile, lighttpd, etc
  • Offload feed traffic
• Caching
  • WordPress caching (application level)
  • Browser caching (client side)
  • Web server caching (server side)
• Adding Database Servers

Refference: https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Optimization/Cheat_Sheet

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Prem Tiwari

An engineer by profession and a passionate blogger by heart. Founder of FreeWebMentor.com (A Programming blog for beginners), Tech Speaker at various forums. A part from this he is an open source enthusiast, WordPress Lover, Blogger, SEO, and Growth Strategic.

Article Tags: Adding Database Servers, Browser caching (client side), Offloading, WordPress Performance, wordpress Server Optimization

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