I am also a WordPress fan and that is why I decided to make this blog. However, loading speed of the blog is always of my first concern as many bloggers are not patient enough to stay and wait for 5 minutes to see your blog posts. It is a nightmare.
How to deal with this? How to make your blogger as faster as possible? There are a lot of tools and plugins that can help your wordpress blogs load faster but where to find them and how to know that these tools are reliable and not crack down your blog? The only way is to see how other bloggers rate them and their experiences in using them.
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Today, a guest blogger on ProBlogger has shared his own experiences in using 5 plugins that can help blaze your wordpress blogs fast. It is worth of sharing them here again in case you have not read that article yet.
5 Plugins To Make Your WordPress Blog Blazing Fast
- WP Super Cache by Donncha O Caoimh- A very fast caching plugin for WordPress. This is what has been saving me from traffic spikes. In a normal WordPress install, every time a visitor comes to your site WordPress builds the webpage for them from scratch by pulling information out of the database and processing a variety of things in the software. The bottom line is, this is time consuming – and usually after you’ve published a blog post, it doesn’t change very much except when people comment. When a page is loaded, WP Super Cache caches a static (one time generated) copy of that webpage, and then every time a new visitor comes, it preferentially gives them the cached version of the page. This is much faster, and has totally saved me when a rush of people come from one of my posts going viral.
- GZIP Output by Austin Matzko- This plugin automatically compresses CSS, Javascript and HTML output, allowing it to travel faster from your blog to a visitor’s browser. According to Best Practices On Yahoo! Developer Network: “Gzipping generally reduces the response size by about 70%. Approximately 90% of today’s Internet traffic travels through browsers that claim to support gzip.” This is a simple change that will not affect what your readers see at all – except that it will load in their browser faster.
- WP Minify by Thaya Kareeson- This plugin uses the Minify engine to combine and compress JS and CSS files to improve page load time. Like the previous plugin, it also automatically shrinks the size of your files without you having to do anything.
- W3 Total Cache by Frederick Townes- If I was starting a brand new blog today, this is what I would use on day one – and then go with a more complicated set up (like I have currently) after it grows. This plugin is amazing. It includes minify capabilities, caching (but less aggressive than WP Super Cache) and GZip compression.
- Free CDN by Phoenixheart- If you have static files (images, javascript, css) taking a long time to load and slowing your site down, you may benefit by installing Free CDN – especially if you have large images. Briefly, a CDN is a content delivery network. Static files are cached on the CDN and pulled from their servers instead of your own – which means that your server has to do less work, and potentially can serve more people at once, faster.
- Bonus: Upgrade WordPress! This isn’t a plugin, but every time a new version of WordPress there’s a good chance they’ve optimized the software so it runs faster than before. Be sure to test your blog after you upgrade to make sure everything still runs smoothly.
I personally have been using WP Super Cache on this blog and several blogs and quite happy with this plugin. However, my blog seems to be not as fast as I expected, then this collection is something like a gift for my weekend. I will give each of them a try next 2 days.
How about you? Will you try to use these plugins?
See the original article at ProBlogger here
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Thanks for great wordpress plugins. It’s really helpful
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Tran, I have been fairly unsatisfied with WP-Supercache because my server uses fair amount of processing even when SuperCache is enabled. I’m testing all these plugins so that I can see which plugin is perfect for me.
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I like your blog
For big websites or blogs using WordPress platform with about 200k visits/day, these plugins are really help. However, small blogs should only need WP Super Cache :shutup:
WP Super Cache is good but I myself like the W3 Total Cache as it seems a All in one cache that many big site like Mashable is now using :YYY:
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