Wow, that’s some list Ana! i didn’t know …

by Ana | Traffic Generation on October 22, 2010 · 28 comments

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Wow, that’s some list Ana!
i didn’t know there are so many plugins for improving the speed of wordpress.
I presume this plugins now only helps your readers get faster page loads but helps your server load too, especially good if you are working in a shared enviroment.

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Sheila Atwood@newbielifeline.com December 22, 2010 at 6:30 am

Ana,

Thanks for the speed tips. I will be sending others to this post.

I have to agree that reader experience is the most important.

I have super cash on, but I will be checking out W3 Total Cash and smush.it.
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Michele @NewBizBlogger November 3, 2010 at 7:10 am

Hi Ana,

I’ve use most of these and they really have made a difference. W3 Total Cache unfortunately breaks my site, so I’ve used W3 Super Cache which I think works just as good.

cSprites seems interesting…haven’t heard of that one. Will have to give it a try since I include a lot of images on my site. Will look into doing it manually though as I have sooo many plugins already. =)

Thanks for sharing this list! Ciao!
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Ana Hoffman November 3, 2010 at 9:23 am

I know what you are saying about using too many plugins, Michele. Time to lighten up the load? :)

I personally use Smush.it on my site; easy and works great.

Thanks for coming by!

Ana

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JBR October 28, 2010 at 7:56 pm

Great post, thanks. Site speed is being used in Google rankings now, which is why this is all the more important.

How many of these plugins overlap in their functions? I don’t use W3 Total Cache yet, but doesn’t it also do minifying? How about smushing?

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Ana Hoffman October 30, 2010 at 10:25 am

You are very right; many of these plugins overlap in their functions.

W3 Total Cache does do minifying, but not smushing.

Ana

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Andrew @ Blogging Guide October 25, 2010 at 3:32 am

Ana,

As I said in my last post, I use w3-total-cache and it shaved off a few seconds of my load speed.

I also use smush.it.

cSprites is a new one for me and I shall investigate.

Re: backups.

I use BackupBuddy - it backs up my whole blog not just the databases.

Andrew
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Ana Hoffman October 24, 2010 at 7:17 pm

Wow, thanks for bookmarking my blog.

Hope you’ll come back soon,

Ana

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Reta Roznowski October 24, 2010 at 9:16 am

Been looking at doing SEO on my website for a while, so this post has been really useful. Easy read as well, so thank you!

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Ana Hoffman October 24, 2010 at 7:14 pm

Hello Reta,

Thanks for visiting my site. I’m glad you find lots of helpful ideas here.

Take care,

Ana

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bryan October 24, 2010 at 5:24 am

Wow Ana,

That’s quite a list for site speed. I shall call you the Queen of Site Speed :D Very helpful list here. Now time to see what it can do especially Minify and cSprites.

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Larry Rivera October 24, 2010 at 3:28 am

Hi Ana thanks for sharing all these speed boosting tweaks. I have been steadily working towards speeding my blog up.

I know there is a lot you can do , sometimes though it comes down to hosting. I use several different hosting companies, I have noticed a huge different in performance just by switching hosting services.

I have noticed that sometimes you have to be careful with plugins because not all of them play well with each other.

Thanks for sharing!
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Ana Hoffman October 26, 2010 at 6:36 pm

Hello Larry,

Yes you have a point there. We need to check the plugins first before using it and make sure that they can work well together.

All the best,

Ana

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Richard October 23, 2010 at 10:24 pm

Hi Ana,
Great list of plugins. I’ve been using w3 total cache on my site and things are running faster. I also used many of the tips that you gave in your last post about site speed and my blog is loading much faster now.

Do you recommend running more than one of these plugins at a time? For instance w3 total cache and minify together?
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Moon Hussain October 23, 2010 at 11:30 am

I see some crazy plugins here…… I have to check out the WP Smush.it. Nothing worse than a slow, slow site loading.
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Ana Hoffman October 23, 2010 at 7:01 pm

I love WP Smush.it - really does the job well with no effort on your part.

Have a great weekend, Moon!

Ana

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Steve@Lifestyle Design October 23, 2010 at 9:51 am

Wow, this is some really awesome stuff. I can’t wait to play around with them and see what it does for site speed. Thanks Ana!!
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Ana Hoffman October 23, 2010 at 7:00 pm

Welcome, Steve; let me know how it goes.

Ana

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Alex@Jocuri October 23, 2010 at 8:19 am

Wow, that’s some list Ana!
i didn’t know there are so many plugins for improving the speed of wordpress.
I presume this plugins now only helps your readers get faster page loads but helps your server load too, especially good if you are working in a shared enviroment.
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Ana Hoffman October 23, 2010 at 6:58 pm

It definitely helps both sides, Alex!

Thanks for coming by.

Ana

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Dennis O'Brien October 22, 2010 at 1:59 pm

Hi Ana
After your last post I started thinking on how to make things load faster. Wp Total Cache works wonders. Makes moving to Amazon S3 Cloud a simple matter and makes all your css and scripts available form there. One problem I can’t get past is images not showing up in my posts when I switch.

If any of your readers know how to overcome this I would really appreciate some advice.

Thanks for the run down on the plugins.
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Ana Hoffman October 23, 2010 at 6:55 pm

I personally have no idea, Dennis.

Sounds like you are sure that it’s WP Total Cache that is the problem.

We’ll see if someone reads your comment and knows the answer.

Ana

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Roy Scribner October 22, 2010 at 8:22 am

Very cool list, Ana - I actually have WP Touch on my list of apps to try. Are you running it, here?

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Ana Hoffman October 23, 2010 at 6:52 pm

Hate to admit it, but haven’t gotten to it yet, Roy; it’s on my list as well.

I definitely need to hurry up and install it though; I tried my blog on my phone and it was painful. :)

Ana

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Sean@SEO Marketing October 22, 2010 at 7:29 am

Great share Ana! Yep site speed matters now - not a whole lot, but it’d be neat for both your readers and search engines if your site loads as fast as it possibly can.
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Ana Hoffman October 22, 2010 at 9:07 am

Definitely, Sean.

My primary concern would be my readers - the fact that my ranking might benefit from it is the icing on the cake. :)

Thanks for coming by!

Ana

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Sean@SEO Marketing October 23, 2010 at 12:44 am

Yep it’s definitely just icing on the cake

I plan to get more involved here in your blog - especially since I’m planning to guest post here every once in a while (once a week would be ideal) :)

Cooking up another one tonight for ‘ya

Thanks Ana!
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Ana Hoffman October 23, 2010 at 6:51 pm

Look forward to it!

Ana

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