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<strong>Healthy</strong> <strong>Tips</strong> <strong>to</strong> <strong>Optimize</strong> <strong>Your</strong><br />

Word​Press ​<strong>Website</strong><br />

Whether it is a small blog on a low cost shared host or a high traffic <strong>WordPress</strong><br />

installation, you should optimize <strong>WordPress</strong> and your server <strong>to</strong> make it run as<br />

efficiently as possible. <strong>WordPress</strong> optimization is important, as the performance<br />

of your website is checked by how efficiently it runs and how much load can it<br />

take, this influences in the success of your website. If your website is slow, visi<strong>to</strong>rs<br />

would not like <strong>to</strong> back again on your site. This is the main reason, that <strong>WordPress</strong><br />

takes a proper care in its optimization. There is a group of ​Dedicated Wordpress<br />

Developers in Sydney​, who looks at the optimization of <strong>WordPress</strong> features and<br />

its website.<br />

Here is a detailed explanation of how <strong>to</strong> optimize <strong>WordPress</strong> and measure its<br />

performance:


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What Affects <strong>Your</strong> <strong>WordPress</strong> Performance<br />

Shared Hosting, Virtual Hosting, and Dedicated Servers<br />

The optimization technique which is available will depend on hosting<br />

setup. The most common type of hosting is Shared Hosting. In this, your<br />

site will be hosted on a server with many others. The web servers are<br />

managed by the hosting companies and very little control over the server is<br />

provided <strong>to</strong> the website owners. While when we talk about Virtual Hosting,<br />

full control of your server is in your hand. The server can be a piece of<br />

hardware or it can be many virtual servers that might be sharing the same<br />

physical hardware.<br />

Hardware Performance<br />

Hardware capability will have a huge impact on site performance.<br />

The speed of the processor, the number of processors, the amount of<br />

available memory and disk space as well as the disk s<strong>to</strong>rage medium. The<br />

higher price is offered for high performance by the host providers. The<br />

innovation in hosting is SSDs, that is faster than traditional magnetic media.<br />

Server Load<br />

The traffic on your server and the configuration done <strong>to</strong> handle the load<br />

has a huge impact. For example, if use cache solution is not done, the<br />

performance will slow down and additional pages requests will come in and<br />

stack up, this can lead <strong>to</strong> crashing database or ​web servers​. The proper<br />

configuration makes most hosting solutions handle high traffic.<br />

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How <strong>to</strong> measure performance?<br />

To measure <strong>WordPress</strong> site’s performance and <strong>to</strong> get specific<br />

feedback on how <strong>to</strong> make improvements, Google PageSpeed is the<br />

excellent <strong>to</strong>ol. For measuring server’s performance in PHP or MySQL, New<br />

Relic provides free libraries. Linux Top provides a dashboard for server’s<br />

real-time performance testing.


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How <strong>to</strong> improve <strong>WordPress</strong> performance by optimization?<br />

Minimizing Plugins<br />

The easiest way <strong>to</strong> improve <strong>WordPress</strong> performance is <strong>to</strong> deactivate<br />

or delete unnecessary plugins. The next step is <strong>to</strong> look at plugins<br />

optimization. Check whether the plugins are coded efficiently and an<br />

unnecessary repeat of database queries is not done. Writing functions like<br />

get_option() and update_option(), will be faster than writing SQL.<br />

Theme optimization<br />

The first thing <strong>to</strong> do in theme optimization is <strong>to</strong> make sure that all<br />

image files are optimized. Then you can optimize the files, by combining<br />

multiple CSS files in<strong>to</strong> a single file. Next comes query<br />

reduction/optimization.<br />

These were few steps which can help you in optimizing your<br />

<strong>WordPress</strong> sites. If you want any more help or any kind of <strong>WordPress</strong><br />

services,​Dedicated Wordpress Developers of Sydney are always<br />

available <strong>to</strong> provide you the best services​.<br />

Elsner INC Is A Web Development & Design Company Based In Australia<br />

[Comapny info]<br />

<strong>Website</strong>:​ ​www.elsner.com.au<br />

Email:​ ​info@elsner.com.au<br />

Phon. No:​ (02) 6100 4040

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