Speed up your Wordpress website

Wordpress based websites usually have not so big number of internal pages and their audience just on rare occasions is higher than 500-1000 visitors/day. But what if you are going to create large news portal based on Wordpress where is predicted to come 1000+ visitors daily? In this case the world greatest blog CMS may bring you a lot of troubles regularly stucking and making visitors disappointed in the quality of your website.

So what we can do to make Wordpress faster and less resource consuming? Below I will describe 3 steps to optimize Wordpress speed.

1. Database structure optimization

Firstly let`s clean our website from unnecessary records and different garbage, which are usually collected in Wordpress databases. Yet you need to know Wordpress database structure very much good to implement such cleaning manually through phpMyAdmin. But there is another simple solution. WP-Optimize plugin will do everything instead of you. Just install it, go to Dashboard>WP-Optimize, select options you need and click on Process button. After processing WP-Optimize will provide you with the detailed report to make you really happy about website database optimization level)))

2. Caching database requests

This approach will increase your Wordpress website speed really significantly. You should know, that database requests are one of the most time consuming part of «content route» between your visitor and Wordpress database. To avoid this part (at least for most cases) we need to cache database requests. For this purpose you can use DB Cache. This plugin is very easy to install and use. After installation just don`t forget to setup 777 access permissions for wp-content folder and Enable plugin (don`t forget to remove full access permissions from the wp-content folder after plugin has been enabled).

3.Wordpress Super Caching
For implementing really powerful server-based caching for your Wordpress website you should use WP Super Cache. It`s installation and activation process is a little time consuming, but this plugin is just must have for large websites with big audience.

Principal of WP Super Cache work is very simple. It generates simple html pages from WordPress dynamic pages. Eventually when visitor`s browser requests any page of your website, server provides him with previously saved html version of the dynamic page. In this way server avoids running heavier and more time consuming PHP scripts.

The abovementioned approaches will make your Wordpress based website really fast and ready to “take on board” tons of pages and visitors!

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