Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Wordpress Plugins for Site Optimization

Caching and optimizing the site is important to keep the site running fast. WordPress is a dynamic database driven site using php and makes connections to the database to show web content.  The database on shared hosting is on a remote shared server which has built in latency.  This process can causes longer load times and uses more server resources such as RAM and processor time which is also shared by other websites and can be limited.  These plugin will optimize your WordPress sites performance and improve your users online experience.

Here are tools below to optimize you sites.

WordPress suggests using these WordPress plug-ins right away.

WP-DB-Backup : On-demand backup of your WordPress database.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-db-backup/

BackWPup  gets a 4 star rating, good reviews and came pre-loaded on my Wordpress site. It is the one I am currently using

W3 Total Cache : A very fast caching engine for WordPress that produces static html files.

P3 Profiler: Our WordPress® Performance Profiler Plugin creates a profile of a plugins' performance by measuring their impact on your site's load time. 


WP-Optimizer: WP Database Optimizer. This plugin allows for automated scheduled database optimization 




Tech Tools

Free Website Performance Tool and Web Page Speed Analysis:
http://analyze.websiteoptimization.com

helps you develop a faster, more efficient, and all-around improved website experience for your users. 


WebSite Monitoring Tools shows response times around the world.




To browse your site outside of your network/ISP thought a proxy:
http://megaproxy.org

To verify the IP address you are using on your network:
http://www.whatismyip.com/

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