Improving Wordpress Performance
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So I have two things to address in this thread. First, I'm curious at what the load time is for people when they visit my website.
I'm curious as to what the load time is for everyone on the site.
Now, the main reason for the post...my website loads in an acceptable time for me, as a rule. However, the dashboard can take 10+ seconds to load at times, and I'm not sure why. Is this normal for Wordpress? Is there anything I can do on the backend to optimize performance?
WAN connection is 50/25 FiOS. Internal network is completely gigabit. The server is a Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS VM on ESXi 5.1. It has 4 core allocated to it, and I believe 4GB of RAM. The vmdk is on a datastore built on a RAID1. The only bottleneck I can think of is that the RAID1 is a pair of 1TB WD Caviar Greens, so not great speed there.
Any thoughts are appreciated.
Thanks,
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What CDN are you using? CDNs are critical for performance. If you are using CloudFlare, have you cranked up your performance enhancements? Running on high normally works fine for WP.
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Your WP DB should be loaded into memory, drive performance will impact saves but should not impact the running application.
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@scottalanmiller said:
What CDN are you using? CDNs are critical for performance. If you are using CloudFlare, have you cranked up your performance enhancements? Running on high normally works fine for WP.
Not using a CDN. I can't due to my DNS situation and the fact I'm using NoIP, and I don't have a static IP for my apartment, thus the choice to go with NoIP.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Your WP DB should be loaded into memory, drive performance will impact saves but should not impact the running application.
It's more loading the admin dashboard that's slow more than anything.
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I should add that I WISH I could use a CDN, but that's not an option atm.
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AJ - Just get some hosting..... How much time are you going to spend on this? What is your time worth?
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Also, I would guess that your breaking your TOS by hosting your website on a non-business plan.
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@Aaron-Studer said:
AJ - Just get some hosting..... How much time are you going to spend on this? What is your time worth?
I don't spend much time on maintaining the actual server, etc. That's pretty easy.
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@Aaron-Studer said:
Also, I would guess that your breaking your TOS by hosting your website on a non-business plan.
What ToS? For who? So what if the website is on a non-business plan. It's not for a business!
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@thanksaj But how much time is solving this performance issue going to take you? What about the next issue?
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@Aaron-Studer said:
@thanksaj But how much time is solving this performance issue going to take you? What about the next issue?
It's still cheaper than hosting. I'm not doing this for a business, so it's out of my own pocket. My networking infrastructure is sound and already in place. Everything works. The time is really irrelevant. My NoIP hostname and DNS package is $35 for the year, and that's my only expense. Hosting would range in price, depending on where I went, what I got, etc. I'll stay hosting it myself for now.
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@thanksaj said:
Use these to help you figure out where to make changes:
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@technobabble said:
@thanksaj said:
Use these to help you figure out where to make changes:
Now THAT was useful!
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@technobabble After drilling into that report, it looks like the biggest culprit is my FeedWeb, which is the biggest performance hitter of anything. I LOVE the things I can do with FeedWeb, and I'm not sure what to substitute it with. Any ideas on that front? Anything you know off?
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Where is feedweb hooking you into?
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@scottalanmiller said:
Where is feedweb hooking you into?
What do you mean? It seems to be slow loading some CSS and JavaScript.
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@thanksaj said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Where is feedweb hooking you into?
What do you mean? It seems to be slow loading some CSS and JavaScript.
I mean where is that thread exposing you.... what publicity or exposure benefit is it bringing?
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@scottalanmiller said:
@thanksaj said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Where is feedweb hooking you into?
What do you mean? It seems to be slow loading some CSS and JavaScript.
I mean where is that thread exposing you.... what publicity or exposure benefit is it bringing?
FeedWeb does have a site where my posts are promoted, but I doubt more than one or two people see it. The big thing they provide is that little grading tool at the bottom of each post. It asks people 2-3 yes/no questions and ask them to rate the article on a scale of 1-5. No one ever leaves comments so this is a way of me gathering feedback, and I've loved it so far! However, it's killing my page load times.
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I hate the modern concept of rating everything. Everything has to have a score these days. I get some help from an IT company and then they're asking 'how would you rate your call on a scale of 1-5'. Uuuurgh. Can you imagine Michelangelo asking people if they'd mind rating the Sistine Chapel so he could get useful feedback.
Sorry, rant over.
