Sean Walther's Blog

How to speed up your WordPress Blog

I finally got around to speeding up my WordPress blog and wanted to share with everyone the various things I did.  I reduced my average page load time on certain pages from 15 seconds to about 1.5 seconds.  That’s a big change.

My favorite test was a quick click through.  On my new host I timed 6 page loads down to about 5 seconds.  When I did the same test on my old setup, it took about 20 seconds (I know, below the 15 seconds average, that was really only for 1 page, but one of my most trafficked pages).

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Tags: apache, Blog, CSS, deflate, hosting, plugins, Speed, tweak, web host, web hosting, WordPress, wordpress hosting, WP-SuperCache

Hosting: How to pick a WordPress Host

WordPress is a popular CMS platform (and has evolved from a purely blogging platform).  If you have virtually no technical knowledge at all, start off very basic with a WordPress.com account.  There are a number of things to consider.

This article will cover:

• What you need for WordPress hosting?
• What will WordPress hosting cost?
• What else is important for WordPress?
• What hosts are any good?
• What about Email hosting?

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Tags: blue host, cms platform, decent host, dream host, host gator, hosting, media temple, MySQL, mysql database, PHP, switch hosts, web host, web hosting, web hosts, wordpress hosting