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

By: Juan

Juan — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 19:08:35 +0000

Thanks! My page would take about 7-20 seconds to load in google chrome. Now it’s about 1.5 seconds!

I can’t believe it!

By: berny

berny — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 02:10:21 +0000

Thanks for this tip.

Btw. the exclusion of static files should also include all your provided file-types like pdf or swf to minimize disk reads.

greetz,
berny

By: Jeff C

Jeff C — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 17:21:27 +0000

Great tip – made the suggested changes to our .htaccess and the speed improvement was very significant. Thanks!

By: Canonical SEO

Canonical SEO — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 19:09:38 +0000

I’m 99% sure you cannot use this on WordPress.com. You would need access to the .htaccess file in the root folder of you blog, and I’m pretty sure they don’t give you that.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 12:01:08 +0000

Great stuff. I got a little improvement. – from 75 to 78 in the Firebug’s Page Speed numbers. Thanks!

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: rashmi

rashmi — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 15:59:19 +0000

Thanks for the solution…I have a lot of wordpress running site I am eager to try this

By: Hubert Bancroft

Hubert Bancroft — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 19:54:54 +0000

I’ve been experiencing terrible problems with my site being slow to load ever since I upgraded to wp 2.9.2. The best solution I have found so far has been W3 Total Cache but I am also trying other methods/plugins as well. I included this code in place of the wp standard inclusion but, in all honesty, it didn’t improve the loading time. HOWEVER, as has been mentioned earlier, this is probably due to there already being a cache plugin installed.

By: Michael Keizer

Michael Keizer — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 00:48:05 +0000

Note that if your WordPress installation is not in your root, you will have to adjust the code a bit. Assuming that your blog is installed in the subdirectory “sub”, it will look like this:
# BEGIN WordPress RewriteEngine on # # Unless you have set a different RewriteBase preceding this # point, you may delete or comment-out the following # RewriteBase directive: RewriteBase /sub/ # # if this request is for "/" or has already been rewritten to WP RewriteCond $1 ^(index\.php)?$ [OR] # or if request is for image, css, or js file RewriteCond $1 \.(gif|jpg|css|js|ico)$ [NC,OR] # or if URL resolves to existing file RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR] # or if URL resolves to existing directory RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d # then skip the rewrite to WP RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [S=1] # else rewrite the request to WP RewriteRule . /sub/index.php [L] # # END wordpress

And yes, it shaved off about 20% of the load time of most of my posts and pages. 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.