Website Performance on Shared Hosting (the JB method)

Get great performance for your WordPress website even on low cost, shared hosting. Use these free plugins, techniques and configuration changes to get the most from your site. (This method was 1st described by Jon Brown @JB510)

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1. High Performance websites on Shared Hosting - Andy Roberts
2. Andy Roberts @andylroberts props to The Jon Brown! @jb510
3. Three Steps to WP Performance 1.Inside WordPress 2.On your Shared Server 3.Off your Shared Server
4. 0 Step Zero Prelims
5. Behold, The Patient
7. Will he? Free, Free, Free! Performance Tweaks you can make on or with most shared hosting (these could help any hosting setup). And they are all no cost, as in free.
8. or won’t he? Geeky tweaks that are only suitable on VPS/Dedicated servers (i.e. Memcached, Hyper DB, NginX, etc.)
9. Where to find the advanced? http://wordpress.tv Joseph Scott, Barry Abrahamson Ilya Grigorik, Iliya Polihronov & others...
10. Measuring Shared Server Performance • Guess what the experts say? • http://www.webpagetest.org
11. But I thought... •FireBug •YSlow •PageSpeed •WebKit DevTools
12. webpagetest.org
14. Sharing, despite what mom tought... •not optimized any site •generalized solution •can’t touch many server settings •Ha Eva, there are things we can do
15. Goal! This is Performance Optimization •Minimize HTTP requests •Lower Total data transfer •Limit CPU load •Eliminate Bottlenecks
16. 1 Step One Inside WordPress
17. Inside WordPress 1.Images 2.404s 3.DB control 4.WordPress based Caching
18. Images •Upload the max size needed •Compress to 60-70% (aka 7 out of 12 in Photoshop) •WP Smush.it
20. Bulk Smush.it
21. 24.94s 4.60s
22. 6.67s 1.66s
23. 404s •WebPageTest.org •FireBug / Webkit Dev Tools
24. Control you WP DB •Optimize DB Plugin - WP DB Manager •Tame Revisions Plugin - Revision Control
25. 6.49s 1.66s
26. Caching WordPress •W3 Total Cache •WP Super Cache •WP Minify
27. Caching WordPress •W3 Total Cache •WP Super Cache - Easy •WP Minify
28. Do’s & Dont’s •Test, test, test •Turn it up to 11! •Maximize the minify •Prime your cache
29. 6.2s 1.2s
30. WP Super Cache Advanced •mod_rewrite •Compress Pages
31. 6.04s 1.2s
32. 2 Step Two On your Server
33. On your Server •PHP Version •Apache Compress •Cloudflare (if you’re lucky)
34. PHP •PHP Version 5.2.17 •5.3 15% faster - Dmitry Stogov http:// news.php.net/php.internals/36484 •PHP 5.4 is even faster
35. How? •Call •cPanel •.htaccess via AddHandler
36. Apache Level File Compression Direct your Web Server (Apache) to compress the files on the way out the door
38. 5.16s 0.995s
39. 3 Step Three Off your Server
40. CloudFlare free awesomeness Content Delivery Network (CDN) + Site Optimizer + Security
41. Use Cloudflare Name Servers Your site is served from Cloudflare
42. Cloudflare Setup 1.Set up free Account 2.They Scan DNS and pull it 3.You Repoint Nameservers (wait)
44. Where does that get us?
46. Before Theme upgrade 90s
47. Theme!?! WebPageTest doesn’t recognize CloudFlare as a CDN
48. 0 7.5 15.0 22.5 30.0 Baseline Smush.it Opt DB C. - Easy C. - Adv Apache Cloudflare 1st Load 2nd Load Home Page Load Times
49. 0 7.5 15.0 22.5 30.0 Baseline Smush.it Opt DB C. - Easy C. - Adv Apache Cloudflare 1st Load 2nd Load Home Page Load Times 24.9s 4.9s
50. 0 7.5 15.0 22.5 30.0 Baseline Smush.it Opt DB C. - Easy C. - Adv Apache Cloudflare 1st Load 2nd Load Home Page Load Times 24.9s 4.9s 4.7s 0.7s
51. 0 7.5 15.0 22.5 30.0 Baseline Smush.it Opt DB C. - Easy C. - Adv Apache Cloudflare 1st Load 2nd Load Home Page Load Times 24.9s 4.9s 4.7s 0.7s
52. That’s it!
53. Andy Roberts @andylroberts http://booktrope.com http://robertsstragegies.com http://note15.com