Optimizing WordPress For Performance

by Scott Beale on January 25, 2008 · 1 comment

Laughing Squid Traffic (30 Days)

Michael Biven, our Chief Technical Tentacle of Laughing Squid Web Hosting, recently wrote an excellent post on “Optimizing Performance for WordPress”, where he explores various ways to improve the performance of WordPress by keeping it updated, installing a caching plugin, decreasing comment & pingback spam, outsourcing media & javascript and a bunch of other great tips.

We use almost all of these recommendations on Laughing Squid (the above graph shows Laughing Squid’s blog traffic the last 30 days), which has helped to keep server loads low and things running smoothly when it comes to front page Diggs and ongoing high traffic from sources like Google search and StumbleUpon.

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1 azeemi January 26, 2009 at 12:10 am

Very excited to see Wordpress do this. The tutorials will really provide a lot of value to the public! Makes it even more of an inclusive hub to learn and grow with the entire wordpress/automatic community.

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