The spring is the perfect season for some back end reviewing of your website. The sunny weather is the best time for deep cleaning of your blog! The fresh releases of WordPress usually make great strides, but there’s always much you can do as individual user for speeding up and improving the performance of your blog. When you decide whether you need a specific plugin or not, check your server’s load times, and get rid of ruined database pieces, you bring in a great help-out to running your website.
1. Diagnose
A little hint on how to enquire the number of queries your website is experiencing: put this little fragment wherever you want in the footer:
<!-- <?php echo get_num_queries(); ?> queries -->
Then you just need to refresh after uploading and view the page or pages that you would like to trace. The results will show you the places that need improvements. You also can get such additional things as YSlow, if you want a better comprehensive evaluation of your blog. This little Firefox add-on is a very convenient thing for running checks and sending back the reports offering the improvements. It also works well with Firebug.
2. Tidy up code.
You can always find many new and fresh blog widgets released. They might be very attractive and helpful, but don’t forget to clear up the snippets calling the functionality of your site, after you get annoyed by them and uninstall all the plugins and thingamajigs.
3. Keep your database healthy.
How often do you take a look at your database at phpMyAdmin? You’d better do it more regularly, especially if you make a habit to (un)install many plugins, in order to tune the database up. It isn’t a difficult task, just use Clean Options – it will sweep scattered data out of the Options table. It’s not perfect and almighty, but it’s still a great thing.
4. Get rid of old things.
Have you ever estimated how many categories you have? If you have, then don’t you think it’s too many? Lots of ancient post (most likely under broken links), and outdated (even deactivated) plugins can suspend load times by just lying on the server.
5. Speed it up.
Other great things for handling your blog are Geekery and such plugins as WP Super Cache, which were developed by very smart people, willing to help you much for speeding up a large database.
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