Comments on: WordPress Performance: Speed Up a Slow WordPress!

By: Eber

Eber — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 01:53:16 +0000

Hello,

I have a very big car blog here in Brazil and saw a significant improvement in the loading time.

As I already had done some changes to improve the loading time, as using WP Super Cache, WP Minify, etc, now it is loading very quickly.

Thanks

By: Aadi

Aadi — Sat, 29 May 2010 13:53:58 +0000

Gr8, this works.l. There’s a noticeable difference in loading times. My server drops connections when there are too many visitors to the site. I wonder if this solution wud help cos I assume the server load will decrease.

By: Paul Rohde

Paul Rohde — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 05:12:05 +0000

Thanks! I definitely noticed some significant improvements on the initial page load, especially since my site is media heavy, take that potential 4 disk reads and multiply it by 20 individual files between the the css, javascript, and the images that makeup the theme.

Many thanks for going into the details of how and where these optimizations can be made!

By: RT Cunningham

RT Cunningham — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 23:44:52 +0000

If you ever decide to re-investigate caching plugins, I recommend Quick Cache without reservation. I use it on several blogs and it does what the others cannot.

I also cache opcodes with APC and use mod_deflate on the server (VPS). The only slow pages on my blogs are the pages that haven’t been viewed within the last hour. Everything else is as fast as a static page can be.

And yes, I’ve changed my mod_rewrite rules. Not quite like yours, but still better than what WP installs.

By: Craig Sunney

Craig Sunney — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 18:09:38 +0000

Hey.
My non scientific counting method, I counted 4 elephants for a page to load….now its down to two with this. It works!

(“1 elephant” = old darkroom photography printing way of counting exposure in seconds). Bookmarked & tweeted

By: Rich Cook

Rich Cook — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:56:38 +0000

I’ve been getting intermittent 500 Internal Server Errors that most sources seem to think is related to a corrupt .htacess file. It happens regardless of what page is trying to load, on the live site and in the WP admin area. I’m going to try & insert this code to see if it corrects the corrupted file & fixes my prob. My pages load slowly, too, at least lately…for about a month. It’s not a large site nor do I have large files. I don’t know what originally caused the error but hopefully this will fix it. If not, I’m tracking down Jim Morgan for help!

By: Vi Wickam

Vi Wickam — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:04:03 +0000

Thanks for the insightful post. I have a bunch of wordpress sites, and implementing this could positively effect our server loads.

Thanksa again!

By: Canonical SEO

Canonical SEO — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:42:49 +0000

Likely because they are not Mod_Rewrite experts. They are concerned more with WordPress app itself, and likely spent no time working on the .htaccess.

The size of the improvement likely depends on whether you already have a caching plugin installed or not. I do NOT have any caching plugins… which might explain the big gains that I saw.

By: Alizio

Alizio — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 11:55:21 +0000

The code works, I saw a small improvement of the speed. on my blog. What I ask myself is why the WordPress engineers didn’t used this solution by default.

By: James

James — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:27:11 +0000

This sounds great. Whenever I look up information on any aspect of htaccess, Jim Morgan has the solution!

It would probably also be worth enabling mod_deflate or mod_gzip from within the htaccess file in order to compress things like html, css and js without having to use a plugin. This can reduce the amount of data travelling back and forth by quite a lot in some cases.