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12:11 pm
January 17, 2013
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martin
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Any suggestions? My damn site is too slow!
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12:38 pm
January 17, 2013
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The College Investor
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#1 – Run Pingdom Pagespeed tester and see what's holding it up (I ran it for TFB for you)
#2 – Shrink your images (use SmushIt or similar) – Your page size is a little big
#3 – What do you use for cacheing – W3TC or Supercache?
#4 – Get a CDN. I use Amazon Cloudfront and it costs me about $1 per month. Super cheap and speeds up a ton.
Email me with questions if you have them. This has been a challenge/passion of mine for a long time and I'd be happy to tell you what I've done.
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4:47 am
January 18, 2013
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MoneyBeagle
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A CDN is on my 2013 list of to-do items.
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8:54 am
January 18, 2013
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Jeff Rose
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9:34 am
January 18, 2013
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retireby40
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I signed up with Amazon CDN last year. Thanks Robert for the recommendation.
It works great. I'll check WP engine.
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12:21 pm
January 18, 2013
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sooverthis
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I use a combo of WP Super Cache, MaxCDN, WP Smush.it, and servers that are optimized for Wordpress. My hosting clients experience far better load times than any of them got on regular shared hosting (shameless plug). :D
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2:08 pm
January 18, 2013
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WellKeptWallet
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I also use the W3 Total Cache (W3TC) mentioned above by the College Investor and my page now has a load time of 1.273 seconds. Not sure if that is the "only" reason but I have been pleased with the results.
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5:40 pm
January 18, 2013
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Glen Craig
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Along the lines of what Andrea is saying, sometimes you are limited by your hosting with how fast your site will be. Even W3TC is limited by your hosting as some things can't be done when you're sharing the space with who know how many other sites.
Not that you should jump ship for another host, it really depends on your needs.
Also your theme will have some affect as well.
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9:30 am
January 22, 2013
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martin
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I also found that it helps to go through old plugins, inactive plugins, and useless plugins. I noticed that this helped instantly.
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