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5:09 pm
April 14, 2011
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The Wall Street Chalkboard (Jeff)
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My site is really slow as reported by Alexa. Are there any ways to increase the speed through plugins or anything else?
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5:41 pm
April 14, 2011
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The College Investor
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I use W3 and WP Super Cache.
W3 minifies the javascript, and does object and database caching.
Super Cache is great for page caching.
Both together cut my initial load time from around 13 seconds to 4 seconds.
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7:00 pm
April 14, 2011
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Buy Like Buffett
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W3 total cache user here too
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8:24 pm
April 14, 2011
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Jon | Free Money Wisdom
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WP Super Cache for the win baby!
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4:37 am
April 15, 2011
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moneycone
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There are a number of wp plugins to speed up WP. Total cache, super cache, hyper cache, db cache. Super cache and Total cache both have a lot of options and can be tweaked to a great extent.
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5:12 am
April 15, 2011
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Invest It Wisely
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I use Wp Super Cache with all the recommended stuff turned on except for "don't cache for known users".
I was using WP Minify but it seems to screw over CommentLuv on my site, so I stopped using it.
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5:15 am
April 15, 2011
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Glen Craig
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W3TC user here.
What may be even more helpful though is using the Google PageSpeed Firefox extension and the Yslow extension and look at what you can improve.
Caching is one part of it but there may be other things you can speed up as well.
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6:41 am
April 15, 2011
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Sunil from The Extra Money Blog
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I second Glen, the FF plugin is revealing! at least when I used it. One must be technically savvy however to implement the suggestions in my opinion
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8:25 am
April 15, 2011
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Wojo
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Also use W3. Above all else though, moving off the GoDaddy servers really helped my site. ;)
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8:57 am
April 15, 2011
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Derek@LifeAndMyFinances
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Thanks for the question Jeff. This is something that I should have asked a long time ago! Thanks everyone for your input!
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10:21 am
April 15, 2011
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Bank Guru
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W3!! The team is awesome and they are always updating the plugin. Mashable uses the same plugin (it also has to do with the W3 founder being the CTO of Mashable)
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10:48 am
April 15, 2011
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Kevin McKee
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Glen Craig – Free From Broke said:
W3TC user here.
What may be even more helpful though is using the Google PageSpeed Firefox extension and the Yslow extension and look at what you can improve.
Caching is one part of it but there may be other things you can speed up as well.
I've done things and found some stuff, but I didn't know how to fix it myself. Any experts here that know how to fix some common problems found by Yslow?
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11:27 am
April 15, 2011
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The Wall Street Chalkboard (Jeff)
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Wojo said:
Also use W3. Above all else though, moving off the GoDaddy servers really helped my site. ;)
I currently use GoDaddy and haven't been to happy with it. What did you switch to and was it an easy transition?
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11:45 am
April 15, 2011
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Wojo
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The Wall Street Chalkboard (Jeff) said:
Wojo said:
Also use W3. Above all else though, moving off the GoDaddy servers really helped my site. ;)
I currently use GoDaddy and haven't been to happy with it. What did you switch to and was it an easy transition?
I switched to MediaTemple, I've been 95% happy (anything is better than GoDaddy, really), but the transition was frustrating beyond belief, mostly because I didn't know what I was doing. If you're a hands-off person, I would suggest one of the hosting providers that handle the transition for you–a lot of gray hairs saved. (I think HostGator does it?)
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1:46 pm
April 15, 2011
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The Passive Income Earner
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My site was really slow one weekend and after much testing, I attributed it to my host provider. I switch to hostgator and they had my site fully transfered in a few days. I was quite painless.
Their online chat support is really good.
My site performance is pretty good and I don't even have any of the caching plugins enabled.
It's also worth noting that all my images come from my Google Photo site for my account as oppose to my provider. I figured that spreading the load across 2 servers would help and Google 'probably' has a fast backbone for all the data.
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2:50 pm
April 15, 2011
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Glen Craig
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As Wojo mentioned, I moved to a VPS at InMotion and that helped my site speed and crawlability as well!
InMotion moved my sites for me too (was on gs at MediaTemple).
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8:51 am
April 18, 2011
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Eric – PersonalProfitability.com
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I use WP Super Cache on my older sites and W3 on my newer sites. Both have worked well for me.
A few tips-
Remove plug ins that you don't absolutely need, as they are a big drain
Optimize your theme: remove unnecessary scripts, widgets, and use compressed image files to improve load time
Optimize your hosting: I had a big speed problem on two of my sites that were due to a RAM issue on the hosting server. My friend owns the server space and increased the RAM and changed the server cache to optimize load time. It cut my load time from about 15 seconds (horrible) to under 2 seconds on several computers/browsers.
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1:29 pm
April 20, 2011
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The Wall Street Chalkboard (Jeff)
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Quick Question: I'm now using the W3TC, I removed a couple of plugins that I don't use. A notification popped up telling me to empty cache page. Should I do it?
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9:25 am
April 21, 2011
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Eric – PersonalProfitability.com
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Yes, emptying the cache allows the displayed version to refresh to the newest settings.
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7:29 am
April 22, 2011
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Forest Parks
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I'm using W3, anyone ever had any problems with Adsense with these plugins…. It seems ok but I am worried that it's caching my ads too.
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