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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
byAntti Kokkonenhttp://zemalf.com 
 
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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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 http://zemalf.com 
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 http://twitter.com/akokkonen 
 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.
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YOu are my hero of the moment - thanks so much!

reply07 / 03 / 2011
AnttiKokkonen

You are most welcome Katrina. I'm happy my little guide is helping so many ;)

08 / 12 / 2011
Vincent Amari

Very useful. Only one thing, you don't say why you think "W3 Total Cache is the best caching plugin there is for WordPres".

reply09 / 23 / 2010
AnttiKokkonen

In the multiple WordPress blogs I run, I noticed that W3 Total Cache provides the best results when it comes to speed of the website. It's also a comprehensive "all in one" solution for better performance in any blog, and it has awesome advanced options built-in in case a blog grows, e.g. for CDN usage.

10 / 05 / 2010
missavalon

This is very, very helpful - thank you so much for taking the time to explain the setup. Much appreciated.

reply07 / 24 / 2010
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