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zemalf.com | Installation and Configuration Guide by Antti Kokkonen1
SPEED UP WORDPRESS
W3 TOTAL CACHE -PLUGIN FOR WORDPRESS:INSTALLATION AND CONFIGURATION GUIDE
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Preface | zemalf.com
PREFACE
This guide focuses on the most important optimization tweak one can do to aWordPress blog - installing and configuring the W3 Total Cache plugin.There are other optimization steps and ways to increase the site speed, but if you could only do one thing, this would be it.The W3 Total Cache is the best caching plugin there is for WordPress
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Best,because it gets the best results and has all the needed options included, like
minifying, so it‘s not just Page Cache, like WP Super Cache is.
This guide will show you how to install and configure it on yourself-hosted WordPress blog, and make your blog work better andfaster.
This guide is MASSIVE (40+ pages), but don‘t let that scare you, I just
wanted to
cover it all with screenshots and step-by-stepinstructions
. It‘s not hard, it won‘t you too long, and your blog will
thank you later.I made this guide because I see too many WordPress blogs that are so slow
that it‘s embarrassing
- People are leaving the blogs before the text loads! I
made this guide, because it doesn‘t have to be like that
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speeding upWordPress is easy, so there is no excuse
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I hope you enjoy this guide and speed up your blog with the instructions in it…
Good speed,Antti Kokkonen
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p.s.
This guide is 100% free
, and freely available at at my blog and my Scribd -http://www.scribd.com/anttikokkonen - you may NOT sell this guide,
but you SHOULD pass the info on and tell your WordPress using bloggingbuddies about this
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read the guide, use it, share it, embed it on your blog,share the love!
zemalf.com | Introduction to Site Speed3
INTRODUCTION TO SITE SPEED
To speed up WordPress, or make any website load faster, we need to1.
Load less stuff 2.
Load smaller stuff 3.
Deliver the stuff in an optimal way
"80% of the end-user response time is spent on the front-end. Most of thistime is tied up in downloading all the components in the page: images,stylesheets, scripts, Flash, etc. Reducing the number of components in turnreduces the number of HTTP requests required to render the page. This is thekey to faster pages."
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Source: Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Website by Yahoo!
In addition to loading less stuff, when we optimize the stuff we have left toload and deliver that stuff to the reader in an optimal manner, we'll have a fastblog. It's really as simple as that.Each of the three things can be broken down into actions:
Load less stuff
Remove stuff that is not needed
Combine the stuff that's not removed into fewer files
Load smaller stuff
Optimize and minify the stuff
Crunch and compress everything
Deliver the stuff in an optimal way
Optimize loading
Optimize cachingYou need to remove stuff that is not really needed. After the cleanup, the rest
is cakewalk. In fact, W3 Total Cache does exactly this. We‘ll have additional
steps, like optimizing images, but W3TC truly is a TOTAL cache solution.
W3 Total Cache Installation and Configuration Guide
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Sections
« prev | next »- INTRODUCTION TO SITE SPEED
- ABOUT W3 TOTAL CACHE –PLUGIN
- ANALYZING BLOGS PERFORMANCE
- HOW TO INSTALL W3 TOTAL CACHE
- HOW TO UNINSTALL WP SUPER CACHE
- HOW TO INSTALL THE W3 TOTAL CACHE
- GENERAL SETTINGS - PAGE CACHE
- GENERAL SETTINGS - DATABASE CACHE
- GENERAL SETTINGS – OBJECT CACHE
- GENERAL SETTINGS - CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORK
- GENERAL SETTINGS – BROWSER CACHE
- PAGE CACHE SETTINGS - GENERAL
- PAGE CACHE SETTINGS - ADVANCED
- PAGE CACHE SETTINGS - CACHE PRELOAD
- MINIFY SETTINGS - CASCADING STYLE SHEETS
- MINIFY SETTINGS - JAVASCRIPT
- DATABASE CACHE AND OBJECT CACHE –SETTINGS
- BROWSER CACHE - CASCADING STYLE SHEETS & JAVASCRIPT
- BROWSER CACHE - MEDIA & OTHER FILES
- CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORK SETTINGS
- PREVIEW MODE & DEPLOYING THE CHANGES
- REJECTED USER AGENTS AND MOBILE USER AGENTS
- MOBILE DEVICES, MOBILE THEMES AND - PLUGINS
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