Trying to optimize and increase speed

  • tazgraz91

    (@tazgraz91)


    11 years, 7 months ago

    Morning,

    I am trying to optimize and increase the speed while decreasing the load on my Bluehost shared server. I am currently scoring C (75) on GTMetrix page speed and YSlow with an 8 second load time.

    I know its a very image intensive site and that seems to be the bulk of my issues. The site is http://www.islandersinsight.com.

    I am running Cloudfire CDN.

    These are my problem areas:

    Specify Image Dimensions (F)
    Optimize Images (F)
    Remove query strings (F)
    Serve scaled images (D)
    Combine stylesheets, use CSS sprites (F)
    Minify javascript and CSS (C)

    Now, I was wondering if altoptimize would be a good option for me? Never used it and to be honest, scared crapless it will break my site.

    These are the plug-ins I am currently running:

    Akismet
    Compact Audio Player
    Contact Form Maker
    Disqus Comment System
    EWWW Image Optimizer
    Fanciest Author Box
    Google Analytics by Yoast
    Google XML Sitemaps
    GZip Ninja Speed Compression
    Jetpack by WordPress.com
    MailPoet Newsletters
    Role Manager
    TablePress
    UpdraftPlus – Backup/Restore
    Wordfence Security
    WordPress SEO
    WP-Optimize
    WP-PageNavi
    WP-Polls

    Can someone help me (in dummy English?) lol

    Thanks

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  • sffandom

    (@sffandom)

    11 years, 7 months ago

    I run a number of sites on Bluehost and my first step for improving speed on all of them has been to block rogue robots, which use a lot of bandwidth and resources.

    For example, you could install the RENAME WP-LOGIN.PHP plugin and use that to hide your login page from the robots. Then in your .htaccess file add the following code:

    <Files "wp-login.php">
Order Allow,Deny
deny from all
</Files>

    You could probably dispense with the security plugin after doing this.

    If you’re publishing a lot of images you may also want to prevent hotlinks from working so you can also add this code to your .htaccess file:

    RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?YOURDOMAIN.TLD(/)?.*$     [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://([^.]+\.)+YOURDOMAIN.TLD(/)?.*$     [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?google.com(/)?.*$     [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?yahoo.com(/)?.*$     [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?bing.com(/)?.*$     [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?ask.com(/)?.*$     [NC]
RewriteRule .*\.(gif|jpg|jpeg|bmp)$ http://SOMEPAGE/ [R,NC]

    Since you are using a CDN a lot of your bandwidth should actually be going through their network anyway, not Bluehost.

    Even though you’re using Disqus if you have left a lot of spam comments in the WP database you should delete those.

    On large sites it sometimes helps to repair the database and optimize it at least once a month, maybe once a week (depending on how much activity the site sees). Getting rid of a lot of drafts, for example, can clear room in the SQL tables. The larger your SQL database becomes the longer it may take to process some queries.

    If you’re not using the “xmlrpc.php” script (such as for remote posting) then it would be a good idea to block that in .htaccess via FILES as well.

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