It is a common fact that if your blog is slow it’s likely that people won’t wait. Nobody likes a slow loading blog.
If you are experiencing slow download times here are some tips to increase the speed of your WordPress blog.
1. Conduct A Website Speed Test
A website speed test is a great way of seeing how fast your blog will load. The speed test will determine the average download speed for your blog. Aim to have your page load of fast as possible, in my opinion no more than 5 seconds. The iweb speed test is good a tool to use.
2. Have You Got A Good Web Host?
I can’t emphasise enough the importance of choosing a good web host. Your success depends on a good host. Avoid over sellers on hosting that provides unlimited TB’s of download space and bandwidth.
Over sellers, are undercutting their prices to attract more potential customers. You need a reliable hosting server that is not overloaded with countless sites. Do some research into a good webhost. Look for a web host that provides realistic bandwidth if you’re new to blogging it is highly unlikely you’ll need any more than 20GB to begin with.
How to test if your hosting server is slow?
If you blog is slow, on your hosting, install a new Wordpress blog, on the server and test the upload speed. This is to test if the hosting server is slow, if it is then it is time to find a new host. One of my previous blogs taken one minute to download then decided that if I want to have a successful blog, I must change web hosts.
3. Optimise Your WordPress Blog Theme
For those who aren’t aware of PHP, think of it as the person who needs to find the answers to the questions. PHP isn’t sure so it needs to refer to a reference, which in this case is a database. The database is the library that has all answers.
PHP takes longer to find out the answers to our questions rather HTML that knows the answers. Therefore, by replacing PHP with HTML you’re going to increase the speed of your blog.
If you load your blog in the web browser and view source (usually Ctrl + U), you’ll notice that it the code is HTML. All the PHP code is translated into HTML. What we can do is copy and replace all the code from the first line and down to the tag from the view source and replace it into our theme.
A word of warning and disclaimer: Make sure you have a back up of your blog first in case anything goes wrong. I am not accountable for any issues due to not backing up your own blog.
9 Basic Steps
1: Open your blog in a web browser
2: Go to view source (or Ctrl + U)
3: Copy the code from the first line right down to </head>
4: Go into WordPress admin panel and locate the theme editor
5: Open header.php
6: Remove the code from the first line down to the </head> tag
7: Paste the new code into the theme editor
8: Click save
9: Test in new browser
You shouldn’t notice any difference in layout if done correctly. Here we’ve removed the PHP and added static HTML. This technique has removed several unnecessary queries to the database.
4. Remove Any Unused Plugins – Unused plugins can slow down your blog. The best thing to do is remove these plugins and deactivate them.
5. Optimise Your Images – Do you use images in your blog? Most people do. Make sure that they are optimised to a decent file size. I aim to keep most of my images below 50K. Not everyone has super high speed connections, optimise your image files accordingly.
Bonus tip
6. Install the WP Super Cache – The WP Super Cache increases the speed of our blog by creating static HTML pages instead of PHP pages. If the same page is read often, it makes sense to create a HTML version of this page. This is an automated plugin increases the speed of your WordPress blog.
There are 6 useful tips to increase the download speed of your WordPress blog. If you are noticing any slow download times on your blog. Please check your hosting first, by installing a fresh WordPress blog located somewhere on your server.
This may be the source of the problem.
Remember you’ve only got 10 seconds.
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don’t download the newest super cache. it’s broken.
Hi John,
Thanks for letting us know.
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Oh really, I wasn’t aware of this. I did help install it on one of my client’s blog without a hitch.
Fancy giving the development version of WP Super Cache at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/download/ a go then? I asked for volunteers this morning on Twitter and the stampede of people willing to help was almost too much to contain. Not.
I think you’ll find it works better than the current release (which only broke for people upgrading who had wp-cache cache files, which of course is most people upgrading. Bah.)
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This seems like a popular topic lately.
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Hi,
A fast blog is vital, and I found my biggest problems was I had poor hosting. They used every excuse going, about databases were not optimised and it was their hosting.
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Thanks for this very helpful post! Bookmarked…
This will come in handy when I switch to wordpress.hehe ^_^
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Hi
I am pleased you found this post useful.
Thank you
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Have you done a speed test on this blog page? 2+MB. 30+ seconds load time at 1.44mbs T1 speed. An amazing 8+ minutes load time on 56K dial-up.
Hi Steve,
Connections do vary and this something that all designers and developers face. Although not everyone has fast connections we still need to cater for other connection speeds as the web is global.
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This blog is notoriously slow due to its not-too-light design structure so it doesn’t come as a surprise to the regulars here.
An amazing 8+ mins? How did you get the number, Steve?
Great tips on how to speed up your blog. I personally use Wordpress Super Cache plugin and have to say it has definitely save me a few times when a certain post goes hot on sites like digg or Twitter.
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Hi,
That’s a good thing to know, using a super cache on Digg. You must have had some success with Digg?
James´s lastest post..Why Create Financial Freedom?
WP Super Cache can be a good plugin as long as your hosting plan allows for it. I have had several hosting plans where WP Super Cache was rendered ineffective because of the way the hosting companies set up the cache permissions.
In any case, these are all good times. As for the PHP files, that’s a two-way street. Static HTML is much simpler yes, but if you are using WordPress, the PHP is really the best way to go. Tough win-win situation here.
Hi
The PHP is great for calling action, however, just by looking in the header.php and footer.php you can speed up your blog, because the header.php and footer.php will appear on every page.
Another neat trick, is that in PHP set the date so that year will load automatically.
Ironically the speed test site took way more then 5 seconds to load. lol
My homepage however, 1 second. :)
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Hi Dennis,
Speeds to vary,
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I think James give nice tips.. I must try this tips.. But until now I’m still afraid to use WP seper cache plugin.. My friends blog error cause of this plugin.. :(
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Good tips James,
But I’m a little confused about your ‘9 basic steps’ to optimise your theme part:
This line:
3: Copy the code from the first line right down to
Down to where?
And this line:
6: Remove the code from the first line down to the tag
Are you talking about the end of the header tag, or where?
And surely this will not work if you have a plugin like All In One SEO installed, which changes meta tags and descriptions according to post?
(I know you say don’t use many plugins, but without something like All in one, you would have to find another way to optimise the tags and description for every post)
Not criticising, just curious, as I prefer working with html, but I don’t see how this will work with a wp blog.
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Hi There,
I’ve just reviewed the post, it should say the head tag, I wonder if this post has been created in visual layout in Wordpress so it may not have picked that up. I am sorry about that.
Note: to Yan, please add the tag on the post in visual form in wordpress please. I’ve added the head tag in this comment bar, and it doesn’t appear.
Thanks
James King´s lastest post..Why Create Financial Freedom?
My apology, James. I should have proofread it when it was published.
But then we’re lucky to have friends like Zania who did the ‘dirty work’ for us.
@Zania:
Sorry for the confusion and thanks for highlighting the ‘missing bits’.
Hmmm, why no one else realized it before?
Yan
Hi again James
and sorry for being ‘picky’. I thought that was what you meant, but wanted to check to make sure.
I’m still wondering about changing to html that way though.
Looks interesting. I will try it out on a tester blog and see for myself.
Thanks :)
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Aha, you’re jumping on the ‘SBI Scam’ bandwagon, eh?
And you finally updated your blog after a long hiatus….. Good to see ya back, Zania.
And why not ;)
Seemed like a very good way to back someone up and to see the search engines experts in action :)
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Hi James, I’m not sure how accurate the iweb speed test is but I can say that both the site and test was slow. I almost had time to make a coffee while I was waiting. :D According to the test my blog only took .38secs to load but I’m pretty sure it takes longer than that.
Another way to optimize your blog is to optimize all your image files so they don’t take so long to download.
In regards to playing with the code I’m with Zania on that one and I making a backup is a must before playing around with any .php files
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Hi Shire,
I agree with the itools, they are do frequently change from results. So it is a question on how reliable they are.
PHP always keep a back up.
James King´s lastest post..Why Create Financial Freedom?
PHP always keep a back up.
Can you elaborate, James? Automated?
Yan
PS: Would love to have your avatar on the bio box….. what do ya say?
Hi Yan,
PHP is calls information from other sources, either a database, HTML files or the server. The beauty of PHP is you can ask PHP to certain actions, without creating these manually.
An example: the header.php is included on every blog page, it is called into your blog. If you decide to create some new navigation add place it in the header PHP file, it will be automatically called on every blog post page.
This is the beauty of PHP. If I decided to update the entire site’s navigation with only a HTML structure, I would have to manuall change every single HTML.
A PHP driven site is much faster to update than a HTML site. You will never see a site like Amazon or ebay as a static HTML site.
I build all my sites in PHP now, it saves time and makes me a better designer/developer.
For the automated date feature I was mentioning, when it turns Jan 1st 2010. PHP can automatically update the year without me doing it manually. So PHP has it’s advantages. Here’s a tutorial on my blog. Update your copyright year automatically.
I hope this helps. To be a great designer you need to look for ways to improve your workflow.
James King´s lastest post..Why Create Financial Freedom?
Avatar? Sure I’ll look into creating one.
Thanks
James King´s lastest post..Why Create Financial Freedom?
PHP can make your blog so much more productive.
PHP asks for information from other sources. All Wordpress blogs are driven by PHP, all the content for header of your blog is in the header.php.
All the footer details is in footer.php. But we don’t need PHP queries inside of the header.php and footer.php, because every time we load a page, it will keep asking the same question. This goes back to copying and pasting HTML in our header.php file.
The automated date feature is great. Notice that in January the copyright year is out of date on many sites? You can apply a piece of code that is PHP that will automatically update the year for you.
Saving us a job on new years day.
James King´s lastest post..Why Create Financial Freedom?
Isn’t the PHP written in the header and footer of wordpress just there to output data from a query?
You’ll have a query and then you’ll have PHP statements that display info from that query.
I think the PHP in the header and footer are just statements from a query that is generated elsewhere.
Either way, I wouldn’t recommend deleting the PHP from the header and footer, especially the Meta and Title Tags. The PHP in the Meta and Title Tags are there to generate unique information about each page.
If you replace it with static HTML then every single page/post will have the same Title and Meta Tags and that isn’t good.
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Hi Emz,
You really need to know what you are doing in the PHP.
You are right about the changing meta tags and keywords, that isn’t good for duplicate tags. I’ve just checked this on my own blog and it is wise not to have static keywords.
Thank you for pointing this one out.
James King´s lastest post..Why Create Financial Freedom?
I do know what I’m doing in PHP. I work with PHP on a daily basis.
Emz´s lastest post..Elegant Wordpress Themes
That’s cool, I did change the meta keys and description in PHP.
Thanks for pointing that out.
James King´s lastest post..Why Create Financial Freedom?
Thank you James.
For a non-techie like me, how do you keep the size of images small?
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Hi Peter
I don’t know if you’ve got access to Photoshop at all? Or even Fireworks? You can optimise your files for the web.
In Photoshop it is file > save for web
in Fireworks it is file > the export wizard
You should aim to have a good quality photo, but keep the file size low.
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Also remember that dependence on other sites can also cause the problem. On my own blog I displayed a feed of recent posts on some of my other favourite sites in the sidebar, as a way of cross-promoting their stuff.
When speed issues were highlighted to me, I turned this off and it dropped load time from 15 seconds to <2 seconds…
Funnily enough, the iwebtools page wouldn’t load for five minutes. XD
Thanks for the tips though, once iwebtools is ready, I’ll be investigating.
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iwebtools seems to be rather slow, on my high speed connection too, so I guess they can’t really complain that your site is slow.
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Some cool tips there. You can also install WPImageOptimizer Plugin for point No. 6
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That sounds a really cool feature for Wordpress the WPImageOptimizer Plugin.
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Hi Yan,
Going back to creating an Avatar. Do you need a photograph? Or is there an online application, that will save your photo related to your email address?
Sorry, I don’t know what to do. I’ve read online. Is there a function in Wordpress for this?
Thanks
James´s lastest post..Why Create Financial Freedom?
James, visit http://www.gravatars.com and sign up (it’s free), then upload your photo.
Simple as that, it associates your photo with your email address and any time you comment anywhere and log in with that email, your smiling face will appear like magic!
Cheers, good post folks but I think I’ll leave PHP alone!
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Hi Linda,.
Thanks for the link. PHP is more for the those in the know. But if you don’t feel comfortable it is fine.
I’ll look at the gravatar tonight.
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Really great article.these 5 ways are very good and important to increase speed your wordpress blog.i have also a blog.surly i will try all of them.thanks to sharing it.
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I am grateful for your comment.
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Very useful information.
I host some blogs at Bluehost, and sometimes they seem to slow down. It was quite bad 2 month ago, but better now.
Any recommended hosts?
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Hi,
Hosting is an important factor, I am in the UK and I am using Heart Internet, very good my hosting and databases are always fast.
I can’t emphasise enough you must test your hosting company, and see if they deliver results.
Here is an article on tips for web hosting.
http://www.atmmultimedia.com/how-to-choose-a-good-web-host/
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Thanks for the tips, I’m a new reader here and very impressed. Now to impliment your suggestions!
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Thanks for your warm comments.
All the best.
James King´s lastest post..Link Love – Week 3
Arrgh, I wish I can also use some plugins for the free wordpress accounts. But all in all, on page optimization like the images and video squeezing works well to decrease the time for a page to load. Thanks for this tips.
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Hi
Your welcome for the tips.
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I certainly need to do some optimizing on my site again. I have been working on removing a lot of cute but not necessary widgets and such in the sidebar, and excess code in the theme editor. I’ll have to try the Super Cache… I had some problems the first time I tried it months ago, but maybe I’ll give it a go again.
~ Kristi
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Hi Kristi,
Thanks for your comment, The cache is a great plugin it works on the similar process as the google cache.
All the best,
By the way I love your blog. It is wonderful.
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Some very useful stuff in here. I really like the wp cache plugin as it saves plenty of bandwith if I am not mistaken.
Hi,
It may save on bandwidth, if it is all HTML files.
Please you enjoyed the post.
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You can download your files to your computer to make it load faster.
you can do this on the tools menu.
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Yeah you could download the files if you frequently visit, but for many novices, I don’t see that happening.
James King´s lastest post..Link Love – Week 3
Great article, Some very useful stuff in here. I really like the wordpress cache plugin as it saves plenty of bandwith. Thanks for the tips though, once iwebtools is ready.
Thx…this is gud article
best regard from indonesis..:)
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Hi,
I am please you enjoyed the article.
Have fun
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These types of tips are priceless – thanks for sharing! I use wordpress myself.
http://yourpersonalgrowthsite.com/wordpress/
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Hi Bryan,
Thanks for your comment, I am so pleased that my writing is making a difference.
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That article is nice speed up word press blog. I have installed plug ins that are needed to my blog what I need now is a good themes for it.
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Good luck with your blogging success.
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Now this is special James.. Guess many people don’t really bother about speeding their blogs up. Well good touch here!
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Hi Ben,
I am overwhelmed by the responses on this post. This is awesome.
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You’ve done a great job responding to all the comments here, James. I hope you aren’t sick of it.
It just proves that you did a good job touching on a subject that matters to most bloggers.
Or probably because you now have an “a good looking” avatar… ;)
Your next article is most welcome, should you feel like doing it again here.
Yan
Hi Yan,
Thank you for allowing me to educate your fellow blog readers. I’ve done some blog posts on Peterleehc.com/blog and I’ve made an impact there.
I am very grateful for allowing me to guest post.
My avatar, your the first person to comment on it lol,
Thanks again,
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Hi James,
Good tips. I tried the iweb speed test and got 0.88 sec load time, too good to be true as I know it takes a little longer than that. As for the super cache plugin, I’ve tried many times to install but unsuccessfully. The last time I tried I remember an error msg saying it does not work with Windows OS. Is this true?
Peter Lee
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Hi Peter,
Thanks for the info comments. The super cache I haven’t seen an error on there. I really think it depends on the version of Wordpress you are running. I’ve noticed that some versions of Wordpress may not be as compatible with some plugins.
You could just try the wp-cache to begin with.
I hope this helps.
One thing I have noticed is Trackbacks, my version of Wordpress will not allow me to send trackbacks, so when I do a link love feature, I email everyone I’ve linked to.
This is something that is not addressed in Wordpress forums and many others are having this problem. I hope it is addressed in Wordpress 2.8.
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Thanks for the tips, I haven’t optimized the speed for my wordpress blog yet, but i guess i have to think about it now when the visitor count is going up. WP Super cache would be the way to go i guess as i can’t afford a better host. You’re free to check it out at Stream Anime for free at AnimeTip.com! Page load is quite slow.
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Hi,
Thanks for the comments, The WP-cache will help you to improve your download speed.
Before ordering any hosting please do your research.
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Great comments
Is testing the Wordpress Super Cache plugin on a clients blog and it seems to work very well.
Thanks for the tip on this plugin
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Hi Steen,
I am please that you’re having success with your blog.
All the best,
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I do not think that this kind of information is available in every blog. This one is unique and really helpful one. Specially the one with the help of which you can understand the speed of a blog.
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Hi ZK,
This blog post has touched a nerve so to speak it is useful for every blogger.
I am pleased that so many people are finding this post useful.
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Just used the iweb tool – under 5 seconds :) so guess thats a good sign. Thanks for the link and great post!
-R
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I’ve had problems with my server (godaddy.com) that’s why my bounce rate of wordpress blog is too freaking high! Can you give me a suggestion on what blogging host to use?
Hey John
Go Daddy almost dominates the domain market but honestly, it sucks in the hosting department.
Try WP WebHost for 30 days free, it’s web hosting made for WordPress.
Yan
Hostgator.com :)
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Hi Ricardo,
Thanks for the comment, wishing you success in your blog.
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This is the first time for me here and I want to compliment you on a useful post. The exchange of comments and responses too are vigorous and interesting. I intend coming again.
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Hi Nicole,
Yan has done an excellent job of creating some of the finest blog posts for bloggers.
I am pleased that you’re using this great resource.
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Yan, I have visited your blog after long time. How are you?
James, nice post. I would like to know whether just disabling the unwanted plugin is enough or deleting them makes the performance of blog better?
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Hi disabling the blog plug ins is enough, because you the plugin is calling the database for more information.
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Hi James,
My site load it in 2.26 secs is this good? Which is a slow loading?
Great tips, It seems I have HTML so I am ok.
Luis
Hi Luis,
That’s excellent, anything longer than 10 seconds is pushing it.
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Steve wrote
>An amazing 8+ minutes load time on 56K dial-up.
Heck it takes that long just to scroll down to the bottom to leave a comment. : -)
Thanks for the tip on iweb speed test I bookmarked that. They have several cool tools.
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Hi Ned,
Pleased you’ve found some useful tools here. 56k does anyone still use it? In the western world I am certain there are very fast connections, maybe in developing countries, there likely to be much slower speeds.
Can anyone help me out on this one?
Thanks,
James King´s lastest post..Improve your blog when suffering from writer’s block
Some time back I heard an interesting fact. Many emerging markets were actually leading the way in wireless phone service. The reason was because they had no existing wire phone service. So rather than build a wired system they went straight to wireless.
Perhaps the same type of thing is happening with internet service.
I suspect there are a LOT of people who still use 56K. But it makes sense that these are people who don’t go online a lot and don’t think their computer is a priority. They are not likely to be reading our blogs.
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Hi Ned,
Since I’ve been in web design, we’ve designed in restrictions, these included:download file size, screen size,
It is good to design for 56K, but if your blog is mostly HTML, without any plugins, then it should fine, on downloads, as long as u don’t have any photos.
Now the web is geared towards interactive content, including video and podcasts .
James King´s lastest post..Improve your blog when suffering from writer’s block
Never be fooled my friend, there are MANY right here in the USA still on dial-up or worse, nothing at all. i have friends in some boony areas with no access at all – none nada zip zero, the big fat 0. ;)
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Hi Dennis,
Thanks for the heads-up, that’s interesting to know, you’d think the US to have some of the most powerful internet connections online.
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Very true, but perhaps I should clarify a little. One lady friend of mine lives in a “town” that consists of something like 11 houses and a building considered a post office. LOL
No Cell or Internet and TV must be satellite….even that goes in and out sometimes.
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Hi Dennis,
Yeah there is remote places in the US. It is worthless, to install high speed broadband for say 11 houses in the middle of nowhere.
Here in the UK the broadband is pretty good. I live in the countryside and we are forced to pay higher broadband prices because there are less people to share the cost of a higher exchange.
A 10MB connection in the city is probably £10 per month and where I am it is £20 per month.
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Good tips. I would add to that- make sure your blog theme has as few graphics in it as possible. Use Css elements insetad of graphics. Don’t use a graphics based backgound or large header that will need to load everytime a page loads.
Second tip- use a host that uses a separate database server from the application server. Database calls will slow you pages down, especially if you are sharing your server with hundreds of other blogs, hich is probably the case.
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Some great tips here thanks for sharing.
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I’d just like to thank everyone who has commented on this blog post.
I am very grateful, that you’ve found this blog post useful.
Thanks again,
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thank you for sharing an idea through this post is very helpful to me I am a new blogger that’s why I am searching some tips and post that can give me some knowledge in Search Engine Optimization and I Appreciate this one
7. install spam trap to get rid of spam to save bandwidth and make your blog faster
8. cache your blog in the user browser by using nice scripts
9. Enable fastCGI in your server.
10. Enable gzip and zlib.output_compression_level.
Bonus:
A. disable Wordpress revision
B. Disable or delay Wordpress Auto-save post feature
;)
thank. this article hardly assists a beginner like me.
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Okay, I have just moved my blog from wordpress’s domain to a new and free domain& hosting service of my own. xxx.co.cc
But after the moved, i found the blog loading very slow, sometimes database are down, and sometimes the server is overloaded so i need to wait a few seconds to reload it.
Is there a user-friendly ways or plugins for wordpress that I can use to make my site load faster and no more down times?
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Thanks for sharing, idea through this post is really helpfull for newbie
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i have my blog metalallergy.wordpress.com . can i use wordpress softwre to write on my blog?if yes how?
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Wow, Great info
Thanks for your sharing. I will try look up image size on my blog to decrease down to 5Kb.