WordPress Optimization/Cheat Sheet

Prem Tiwari - September 22, 2018 - WordPress Beginners

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

About: Prem Tiwari

Prem Tiwari is the founder of FreeWebMentor.com and also a professional developer who has vast experience in PHP and open source technologies. Apart from this, he is a blogger by hobby and also he has been a regular speaker of WordPress sessions in various IT Companies. View all posts by Prem Tiwari

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