All posts tagged caching

Speed up WordPress in 10 minutes with Quick Cache

By jhnidk | December 28, 2011 | SEO, WordPress | No comments

Optimize load speed in wordpress with quick cache The need for speed is crucial in modern webdesign. To speed up WordPress performance, caching plugins are very popular.

Introducing a caching plugin in WordPress means faster page download, better user interaction, better SEO performance, and reduced usage of server resources. It’s obvious why this is important.

In this post we’ll take a closer look at the relatively new cache plugin – Quick Cache. The impressive thing about Quick Cache is that it works great out of the box, which makes it interesting for you, if you haven’t tried caching plugins for WordPress yet, or if you’re having trouble getting some of the other plugins to work.

Caching Feedburner subscriber statistics for blog or website

By jhnidk | August 9, 2010 | PHP, WordPress | 1 Comment

Many of the big online Kahunas like Smashingmagazine and Mashable are displaying how many subscribers their RSS feed are having.

Displaying the number of feed subscribers can be a good idea from a marketing perspective since many subscribers to some users equals that the site has big credibility.

Feedburner is one of the most popular RSS tools, and Feedburner also offers offers a widget that can be used to display the number of subscribers to your RSS feed. However since the Feedburner widgets uses javascript to fetch feed statistics from Feedburner, these widgets can potentially slow down your site.

In this post you’ll learn how to use the Feedburner API and PHP to fetch feed subscription data, and display these data on your site or blog in a efficient way

Faster Google Analytics

By jhnidk | March 12, 2010 | PHP, Web analytics | 3 Comments

Google Analytics is a great tool for getting detailed insights on user behavior and traffic on your site. Normally the standard implementation from Google Analytics works fine but if you’re looking for opportunities for optimizing site speed, the possibility to store the Google Analytics javascript file locally might be something to consider. The main benefit of hosting the javascript file locally is one less external dependency, and often faster download times.

Tips for speeding up WordPress

By jhnidk | March 11, 2010 | WordPress | No comments

One of the big benefits of WordPress is the many plugins that can expand the basic functionality quite dramatically. However the more plugins you’re using in your WordPress blog, the higher is the risk of the blog beginning to be slow and consume a lot of server resources.

A slow and resource demanding blog has several serious downsides. Users are normally not that patient, so if your blog is slow, there is a big risk, that the users will proceed to another blog instead. High consumption of server resources might get you into trouble with your hosting company, and last but not least, there is strong indication that several search engines like Google might include page speed as part of their page rank in the near future.