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Category Archives: Speed

Tutorials for making your site faster and trimming those milliseconds off your load time.

Speed Test from Pingdom Tools showing all files loading very quickly.

May 10, 2012
by Dave Clements
17 Comments

My Experience with MaxCDN as a CDN Provider

I’ve been using MaxCDN for a few weeks now and I’ve been impressed with how fast their service is and how easy it is to integrate with WordPress using W3 Total Cache. Continue reading →

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The results screen gives you information about the performance of each plugin

February 13, 2012
by Dave Clements
26 Comments

Find Which Plugins are Slowing Down your Site

The P3 Plugin Profiler gives you a breakdown of how each plugin is affecting your page load time, so that you can single out the biggest offenders and decide whether to keep them, get rid of them, or find an alternative. Continue reading →

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Speed up WordPress with W3 Total Cache

January 9, 2012
by Dave Clements
108 Comments

Speed Up WordPress with W3 Total Cache

This tutorial guides you through setting up each section of W3 Total Cache to get your WordPress site running like clockwork in no time at all, with explanations in each section. Continue reading →

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CDNs use data centers all over the world

December 22, 2011
by Dave Clements
130 Comments

Set up W3 Total Cache with Amazon CloudFront CDN

A CDN is an excellent way of speeding up your site, by serving content from servers worldwide. This tutorials shows you how to set one up with Amazon CloudFront and W3 Total Cache. Continue reading →

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2nd Lap: Webber closes in on Button (2010 Montreal GP)

July 11, 2011
by Dave Clements
10 Comments

Make WordPress Lightning Quick with a Free CDN From Amazon

A CDN is an excellent way of making vast improvements to your site speed by serving your files from multiple locations and Amazon now gives you the ability to create one for free. Continue reading →

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smush.it optimizes images by removing unnecessary parts

June 8, 2011
by Dave Clements
20 Comments

Optimise Your Images For Faster Page Loading

It’s never been more important to load your pages as fast as possible, and smush.it helps optimise your images to help you achieve that by automatically optimising every image that you upload to WordPress Continue reading →

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Every millisecond matters these days

May 20, 2011
by Dave Clements
12 Comments

Keep Track of Load Times Using Google’s Page Speed API

WordPress site owners now have an extra tool in their toolbox for assessing their site’s load speed performance, monitoring it over time and getting specific details about what elements of their site are causing them the biggest hindrance to loading quickly. Continue reading →

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