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7:33 am
December 23, 2013
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MonicaOnMoney
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Hi everyone and happy holidays! I've been to most of your blogs and noticed that they load amazingly quick. However, when my go to my own blog, I've noticed lately that it takes several minutes to load fully.
Does anyone have advice on how to make my blog load faster? Any advice on which plug-ins to use (and which ones to avoid?)
I'm using a WP Smush.It and WP Super Cache but any other ideas are appreciated :)
Thanks!
Monica Iannacone
http://www.MonicaOnMoney.com
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5:18 pm
December 23, 2013
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debtroundup
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Your blog load relatively quick for me. Have you actually timed it? You can check out tools.pingdom.com as a place to see why your blog is taking a longtime to load.
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9:41 pm
December 23, 2013
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The College Investor
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I love helping people speed up their blogs!
A few things:
Wins:
- WP Super Cache is working, but it really only helps on the 2nd load. Your site loaded at over 3 seconds the first time, then down to 1.83 seconds the second time. Below 2 seconds is where you want to be.
- Good call reducing your image size. Also, try to make sure that your images are the correct size to begin with, as that will help a lot.
Quick Fixes:
- Install P3 (Plugin Performance Profile?) and run it. It will tell you which plugins are slowing down your site. I can quickly tell you right away that Jetpack is slowing you down. It's also probably slowing down your Wordpress back-end for when you are on your site. I would ditch this quick (I actually have a blog post coming out soon about this).
Other Thoughts:
- Consider getting a CDN. I use Amazon CloudFront, and you can setup and use it as a CDN for less than $5 per month depending on your traffic. Since you have a lot of images on your site, this is a great way to speed up your load time.
Feel free to email me if you have any questions!
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10:51 pm
December 23, 2013
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Edward Antrobus
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Good tips. I need to work on my food blog. My load times are over 7 seconds.
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2:27 pm
December 24, 2013
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frugaling
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Post edited 2:28 pm – December 24, 2013 by frugaling
Just a few thoughts:
- Jetpack, while probably a bit of a bandwidth hog, is really awesome. I hesitate that that should be your first thing to go. Moreover, Jetpack includes a free CDN (content delivery network) with Wordpress.com features. That means every uploaded image – as long as the setting is turned on in Jetpack – gets a backup version stored at WP.com. That saves you whatever you'd be paying at Amazon, and is fantastic if you ever lose your local media library.
- Your site is on the long side… A bit more time spent scrolling. I wonder if you shortened it up a bit or removed one of the 300 x 250 banners on the sidebar, if the speed might have a little boost.
- Just so you know, your site is loading offsite content from about 11 sources or more. Widgets (Google+, Digg, etc.), Alexa site stats, and more will drag and leak data to 3rd party sources. You may think about what you can do without.
- It doesn't appear as though you have any Google AdSense ads, but if you do, make them asynchronous. That way your site's content will load before the ads/images.
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8:41 pm
December 24, 2013
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debtroundup
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Though Jetpack does have some great features, it is extremely resource intensive. Yes, it does come with a free CDN capability, the plugin has to run on every page load. When I had it installed on my site, my server resources were being taken up due to every page load, the plugin will go. That is just bad for shared servers.
As Robert said, I would look at a CDN or look at CloudFlare. You can get it free and it can really increase the speed of your site. It will also reduce any spam that might be hitting your site.
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6:38 pm
December 26, 2013
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Ben Luthi
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Thanks for all the tips guys! I've been thinking about this lately too.
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11:53 am
December 29, 2013
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Eric – PersonalProfitability.com
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I have no idea how many hours I spent on site speed (A LOT), but the single biggest thing I ever did to boost was change hosts. I went from Hostgator ("unlimited everything" host) to LiquidWeb (limited bandwidth/usage on shared servers). By going to someone that didn't over-crowd their servers with hogs, I got the resources I was paying for and my site literally loads 10x faster now.
It was an overnight change!
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2:46 pm
December 31, 2013
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First Million is the Hardest
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This is something I've been working on a lot too. I've recently enabled the CDN in Jetpack (should I use this one or an external CDN?) and am working on reducing the number of plugins I use. We'll see how much (if any) effect that has.
Two things I might suggest. Use the WP Smush.it plugin to compress the file sizes of your images. Also, the P3 Profiler plugin runs a scan of your blog and shows what plugins are causing your site to be slow. (h/t to Andrea for that one: http://www.nutsandboltsmedia.c…..e-in-2014/)
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12:27 am
January 5, 2014
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moneystepper
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The greatest improvement in load time for my site was changing from Windows to Unix. If anyone is running on Windows, I would suggest that they contact their provider to switch them over!
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