Comments on: Speed Up Your WordPress Blog

By: Atul

Atul — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 16:47:12 +0000

nice man

By: Yashni Marad

Yashni Marad — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 23:26:36 +0000

Super-Duper site! I am loving it!! Will come back again – taking you feeds also, Thanks.

By: Anish K.S

Anish K.S — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 06:57:15 +0000

Nice Tips ……

By: Niyaz

Niyaz — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 05:53:51 +0000

Very useful tip. Thanks for that man.

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:38:46 +0000

This is awesome dude. I found it very cool to get these new tips. Keep it up.

By: Kathy @ Virtual Impax

Kathy @ Virtual Impax — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:38:32 +0000

This post is like ANSWERED PRAYER for me!!! Thanks so much for sharing!!!

By: Binny V A

Binny V A — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:39:52 +0000

Thanks for the tip about reducing the queries – I thought the data will be cached when calling those functions. I will remove them from my templates and use static text instead.

By: Angel Cuala

Angel Cuala — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:31:17 +0000

As a newbie at WP, I think this is a good tip for me. Upgrading the latest version is one thing I have not done yet, and I am also scared about plug-ins as I got used to Blogger which I found easier to load.

But thanks to Daily Blog Tips as I found you there.

By: Anand

Anand — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:28:42 +0000

Yes, I agree with you sree, better validated, better it renders.

I was actually able to reduce load time by 2 seconds to less than 5 secs now. I am looking for more ways to reduce load times and Xhtml validator is next

By: Sree Pillai

Sree Pillai — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:43:26 +0000

Hey Anand,

Yep, reduce the plugins used – that is very important. There are many plugins out there, and we feel like installing everything! The plugins automatically insert filters and actions for every page.

I feel that, in most cases the HTML will get downloaded to the browser faster. But to render it the browser takes a lot of time, especially when the HTML elements are not well formatted. Even though we all say that the theme is XHTML Transitional, when you check it out at validator.w3.org you will find that there will be many errors. The simpler and cleaner the code is, the faster the browser render it for the visitor.

Clean XHTML along with Super Cache and less number of plugins will make a WordPress blog faster, provided you have enough hardware support for it.

For example, my blog teck.in is fully XHTML transitional validated (except for a few old posts), and have super cache. Now it is much faster than before.