How can I improve the performance of my WordPress website
While there are many ways to further improve the performance of WordPress, like replacing your theme, deleting inactive plugins, reducing widget usage, or even disabling “Allow link notifications from other blogs (pingbacks and trackbacks),” the items described above tend to return the most dramatic improvements with the least amount of effort.
Testing tools like GTmetrix, Google PageSpeed Insights, Uptrends dot com, Whichloadsfaster, or Pingdom may help in verifying how well your blog is performing as well. Though ignore page load times (a pre-2010 testing philosophy), and focus on “above the fold render times” and “speed index” testing. How fast folks can see your above the fold text, can click links, etc., are the truest indicators of performance.
Other improvements may be seen by utilizing services like Cloudflare; having Nginx or Varnish installed on your server; or by upgrading your hosting plan to one which allows for greater RAM allowances. Suffice it to say, “mo’ RAM is mo’ betta.”
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Written by Jim, Walker, HackRepair.com