How to optimize wordpress websites in linux reseller hosting ?
How Do You Improve Performance in WordPress
1.Plugins optimization :-
* The number of plugins and their performance will also have a huge impact on your site’s performance. Deactivating and deleting unnecessary plugins is very important way to improve performance
* You can also selectively disabling plugins one by one. If one particular plugin significantly affecting your site’s performance, you can think of optimizing plugins. Optimizing plugins can be focused on inefficient codes, repeated unnecessary database queries etc
2.Themes optimization :-
* WordPress theme will have a huge impact on the performance of your site. A fast, lightweight theme will perform much more efficiently than a heavy graphic-laden inefficient one
Images :
Image files can be given importance in optimization.
Unnecessary images can be replaced with images with text.
Make sure all the necessary images are optimized
Make sure images are in correct format (JPG/PNG/GIF)
Files :
Reducing the number of files/size
Reduce the number of files needed to display the average page on your site
Combine multiple CSS files into a single, optimized file.
Minify CSS and JavaScript files
Database :
Query reduction and optimization will give good result
Static values can be hardcoded into your themes like site title, site charset so on
Menus that rarely change can be hardcoded. For eg, Avoiding functions like wp_list_pages()
3.Web hosting server hardware :-
WordPress performance depends on the server hardware where you have done your hosting. Generally Dedicated server hosting will be a more effective solution than Reseller hosting. You will have root access in the server where you can tweak software settings and you will get guaranteed performance.
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4.Caching enabling :-
There are plugins available in wordpress, will cache your WordPress posts and pages as static files. These static files are then served to users, reducing the processing load on the server. This will bring fair result in website speed on static pages.
Browser caching can help to reduce server load by reducing the number of requests per page. Using HTTP Cache-Control (specifically max-age) and Expires headers, as well as Entity Tags via .htaccess will help us to implement browser caching. This technique allows the browser to check to see if files have changed, instead of simply requesting them. The result is your web server can answer many more 304 responses, confirming that a file is unchanged, instead of 200 responses, which require the file to be sent.
5.Keep wordpress, plugins, themes upto date
6.Enable captcha to protect website against comment spam. Block IP ranges from accessing your website at all via .htaccess. Block unwanted users from your site
7.Disable WordPress autosave and log out of dashboard
This ways will help you to optimize wordpress and thus improves the website performance.