Comments on: 10 Ways to Instantly Speed Up Your Website

By: webstar

webstar — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:40:29 +0000

all these steps are important for speed up your website. here are some tips speed up your website

By: wpdotmd

wpdotmd — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 07:25:07 +0000

kilas mentioned the most effective way to speed-up the website. Using Gzip is a best way.

To see if your site is already GZipped you can use GzipDetect:
http://www.sysadmin.md:3000/

By: JP

JP — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 02:25:14 +0000

@Omer Greenwald: You’re totally right! I forgot to about minimizing PHP Queries; this increases the server-side performance of your website.

By: Omer Greenwald

Omer Greenwald — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 21:02:14 +0000

Great comprehensive article, thanks. I would also add to minimize PHP queries and db calls by turning dynamic code to static (only where it is reasonable to do so).

By: yabate

yabate — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 19:34:17 +0000

Thanks friend for all those informations.

Currently i am using everything you wrote except CSS Sprites and preload components.

I already tried to make CSS sprites, but my wp theme syndicates some errors,so i left it for a near future time.
Thanks for info’s…

By: Gordon

Gordon — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:11:41 +0000

I use YSlow and AOL Webpage test for diagnostics. We put a website accelerator software called Aptimize WAX on our sites almost a year ago and that has saved us a tonne of time as we no longer have to do “manual” performance tuning, WAX does the optimizations automatically and our sites are between 32-54% faster, depending on the page. Must say I always struggled with manual tuning so this has been a great find for me.

By: JP

JP — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 05:40:55 +0000

@Tony: apparently there are quite some web designers out there that don’t use it though

By: Tony

Tony — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 01:48:47 +0000

Firebug is the web designer’s favorite toy.

By: JP

JP — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:31:54 +0000

@Arnold Dela Cruz, for this blog I’m using contact form 7, which by default places WordPress’ jQuery and c-form 7′s Css file.
I prevented c-form from doing this. I put the jQuery hosted by google @ the bottom and included the c-form 7 css manually in my main css file.

You can prevent any plugin from automatically adding css and js files in the top. I always do this to speed up the use of plugins if I have to(I try to use as little as possible to keep the blog fast).

@Aaron: thanks for the share! I didn’t know that the script did all of those things.. I thought it just minifies.

By: Aaron M.

Aaron M. — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:43:20 +0000

Good list!
I have been using Minify ( http://code.google.com/p/minify/ ) for a good portion of the optimizations listed here since 2007 with great success. It handles combining Javascript and CSS files, minifying them and gzipping them. It also has some pretty intelligent server-side and browser caching that will boost performance even more by not regenerating the files with PHP unless something has changed and by allowing browsers to use a cached copy unless something has changed.