Speed up website

Discussion in 'Site & Server Administration' started by neodan, Aug 20, 2012.

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    What can I do to increase website speed?

    my website: http://ragetracks.com has been under some heavy traffic lately..I wonder if cache or any other plugins will make it faster?
     
    neodan, Aug 20, 2012 IP
  2. Ray Baron

    Ray Baron Member

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    Caching will always help. Also, not loading 4 billion images on the home page will help ... :cool:

    How you optimize a website depends on what type of CMS you are using, what type of server and what resources you have available.
     
    Ray Baron, Aug 21, 2012 IP
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    improve the size of your images, if it necessary decrease the quality of the images.
     
    iageogr, Sep 4, 2012 IP
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    using cache and cdn for your site :)
     
    dongphutho11, Sep 17, 2012 IP
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    zacharooni Well-Known Member

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    If you have already implemented webapp level caching, then you may need to optimize your webserver, depending on your traffic load. I might also suggest using XHProf to profile your app under load, and see exactly where your site is bottlenecking, then fix the issues with the biggest bottlenecks first. Most often, this is going to be disk, as is it the slowest component of the system. A solution to this is that you can store data that is used very frequently in memory (with memcached for example), so that you have less disk seeks and less database queries, which, under load will net you a huge performance gain.
     
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    RoseHosting Well-Known Member

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    Use persistent connections
    GZIP encode all appropriate text assets
    Compress Images
    Leverage browser caching of static assets
    Combine static CSS and JS files
    Minify CSS and JS files
     
    RoseHosting, Sep 20, 2012 IP
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    If you have set google webmaster tool then you can see the html suggestions there.
     
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    If you need help with this, we can speak via skype - cesurasean is my screen name.
     
    cesurasean, Sep 26, 2012 IP
  10. Ivan Daicho

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    Use CDN, compress image sizes, CSS, JS with any online script compressor or CMS plugins. Best to test your site performance with Mozilla addon Firebug, Yslow, Chrome Pagespeed
     
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  12. riyadabc

    riyadabc Greenhorn

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    i can suggest you to take fast hosting from a good company and do not use any kind of flash to your site . i hope you will get solution
     
    riyadabc, Sep 30, 2012 IP
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    Hi,

    I would suggest using Pingdom's Full Page Test tool which allows you to test the speed of a website. Simply head over to the Pingdom website, click on 'Tools' and enter your domain name.

    Cheers.
     
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    AaliyaaLia Greenhorn

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    I suggest you keep a standard size of images, with low quality. Make sure to convert the pictures in JPEG format, as it would reduce their size. :)
     
    AaliyaaLia, Sep 30, 2012 IP
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    You have to work on ON-Page factors to speedup your website:

    Visit the following website and find out the area that needs to be optimized.

    websiteoptimization[dot]com[/]services[/]analyze[/]
     
    badolfus, Oct 6, 2012 IP