Speeding
up your WordPress blog goes a long way to improve its popularity. As
the website loads faster, your visitor enjoys browsing, driving high
traffic and generating revenue. While there are many proven ways to
boost a site’s performance (a lot of these are explained in the
WordPress Optimization for Better Performance and Speed post), in this
article we will take a look at some WordPress plugins that allows you to
perform critical front-end and back-end optimizations, within the
comfort of your WordPress dashboard. In the first section of this
article I have listed the well known WordPress caching plugins and my
recommendation. The next section has a list of few nice utility type
plugins which you might find useful (depending on your situation).
Please note that you don’t need to install all of the plugins listed
here on your site (Just pick whatever fits your needs).
Top WordPress Caching Plugins
W3 Total Cache
A lot of people still use the WP Super Cache plugin. WP Super Cache is a nice plugin but have you tried the W3 Total Cache
plugin yet? If you are using a WordPress caching plugin and you have
never tried the W3 Total Cache then you seriously need to give this
plugin a go. W3 Total Cache is a relatively newer caching plugin with
better performance and the configuration is much easier and cleaner. It
works nicely with the WP eStore, WP eMember and the WP Affiliate
Platform Plugins too (more details here).
W3 Total Cache is the fastest and most complete WordPress performance
optimization plugin. Trusted by many popular sites like: mashable.com,
smashingmagazine.com, yoast.com…. tipsandtricks-hq.com and others. W3
Total Cache improves the user experience of your blog by improving your
server performance, caching every aspect of your site, reducing the
download time of your theme and providing transparent content delivery
network (CDN) integration.
Hyper Cache
Hyper Cache
is a new caching system for WordPress, specifically written for people
who have their blogs on low resources hosting provider (CPU and MySQL).
It works even with hosting based on Microsoft IIS.
WP-Cache
WP-Cache
is an efficient WordPress page caching system to make your site much
faster and responsive. It works by caching WorPress pages and storing
them in a static file for serving future requests directly from the file
rather than loading and compiling the whole PHP code and then building
the page from the database.
WP Super Cache
WP Super Cache
plugin generates static HTML files from your dynamic WordPress blog.
After a HTML file is generated your webserver will serve that file
instead of processing the comparatively heavier and more expensive
WordPress PHP scripts.
DB Cache
The DB Cache
plugin caches every database query with given lifetime. It is much
faster than other HTML caching plugins and uses less disk space for
caching.
1 Blog Cacher
1 Blog Cacher
is a WordPress plugin that caches your pages in order to increase the
response speed and minimize the server load. Cached files are stored in
HTML files, and organized in directories emulating the URLs (if
“safe_mode” is not enabled), so it’s easy to display the content of the
files and organize them (for instance deleting the cache for a given
entry, for all categories, for all searches, for all posts from a given
date, etc.)
Other Useful Site Speed Related Plugins
Clean Options
As
you go on installing, using and uninstalling plugins on WordPress, the
‘wp_options’ table becomes bloated. Even some themes use this table to
store settings related data. Some of those records don’t get deleted as
the plugin/theme is uninstalled. The table continues to grow and
contribute to progressively slower load times. The Clean Options plugin
gives users an easy and safe way to get a bloated wp_options table down
to a manageable size. It’s equipped with many built-in safety features
so you don’t accidently delete any data that’s needed for your blog to
operate.
IFrameWidgets
Bloggers
often add various widgets to their site for social networking,
advertising, weather update etc. Widgets remain hidden until they are
completely loaded. Some of these widgets could be written using slow
JavaScript, causing your page to slow down. If they somehow give up, the
page gets broken as items after the slow widgets fail to load. The IframeWidgets plugin
eliminates this problem by loading the widgets within an Iframe.
Iframes load parallel to the rest of the page, so if one or more of
those sluggish widgets hang, the page on its own remain unaffected.
Optimize DB
Optimize DB
lets you speed up your MySQL database, without you needing to learn
complicated optimization techniques. This plugin runs the ‘optimize
table’ command on your WordPress tables and defragments them. This
significantly reduces the query execution time and physical space on
disk. Use it to optimize the tables which are updated the most.
CSS Compress
CSS Compress
is a nice plugin to reduce the size of bloated CSS files. It removes
comments as well as white space characters from the CSS (new lines and
tabs). It also performs GZIP compression. Using this plugin reduces the
CSS for the default “Kubrick” theme from 8 KB to 1.7 KB! It’s also very
easy to install and use. If you are using the W3 Total Cache plugin then
you shouldn’t need to use a CSS compressor plugin.
Digg Protector
Many
bloggers have complained about ‘invasion of Diggers’. If one your posts
get Digged, it’ll drive a lot of traffic, stretching out your
server-load to maximum. Most of this load is caused by high amount of
images that are loaded. The Digg Protector plugin
will determine if a visitor is from Digg, and if he is then the plugin
will serve him a remotely-hosted version of the image, taking the load
off your site’s server. Otherwise, the plugin will serve the
locally-hosted (on that server) image.
PHP Speedy
Another handy tool for boosting site performance. PHP Speedy
can speed up the download time of your web pages by joining together
all the appropriate files and compressing them. The recently released
version(0.4.7) requires WordPress 2.6 or higher.
Hopefully you will find some of these plugins useful.
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