Healthy Tips to Optimize Your WordPress Website

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What Affects Your WordPress Performance
Shared Hosting, Virtual Hosting, and Dedicated Servers
The optimization technique which is available will depend on hosting
setup. The most common type of hosting is Shared Hosting. In this, your
site will be hosted on a server with many others. The web servers are
managed by the hosting companies and very little control over the server is
provided to the website owners. While when we talk about Virtual Hosting,
full control of your server is in your hand. The server can be a piece of
hardware or it can be many virtual servers that might be sharing the same
physical hardware.
Hardware Performance
Hardware capability will have a huge impact on site performance.
The speed of the processor, the number of processors, the amount of
available memory and disk space as well as the disk storage medium. The
higher price is offered for high performance by the host providers. The
innovation in hosting is SSDs, that is faster than traditional magnetic media.
Server Load
The traffic on your server and the configuration done to handle the load
has a huge impact. For example, if use cache solution is not done, the
performance will slow down and additional pages requests will come in and
stack up, this can lead to crashing database or ​web servers​. The proper
configuration makes most hosting solutions handle high traffic.
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How to measure performance?
To measure WordPress site’s performance and to get specific
feedback on how to make improvements, Google PageSpeed is the
excellent tool. For measuring server’s performance in PHP or MySQL, New
Relic provides free libraries. Linux Top provides a dashboard for server’s
real-time performance testing.