WP Super Cache has long been my “go to” plugin for improving performance of WordPress. But that just changed. There was an update to WP Super Cache recently and I installed it. I had some time and did some testing beyond making sure the site didn’t break and what I found was that the plugin really wasn’t working. Unfortunately I haven’t been completely testing each and every change to the site. If nothing breaks I consider it good although I hadn’t gone so far as to verify pages were being cached. Somewhere in the past it appears the WP Super Cache plugin stopped caching many pages. I can’t say if it was an earlier upgrade to the plugin or if it was something I added/changed that Super Cache couldn’t handle. It wasn’t the latest update as another of my sites that was still on the older plugin had the same problem. This led me to chose two other caching plugins that provide a nice one-two caching punch. Read the rest »
Optimizing My Website – Low Hanging Fruit
In this article I look at the 4 main areas which I could easily optimize to improve my website performance. Image optimization, CSS optimization, Javascript optimization and plugin optimization where all used to improve the performance of my Wordpress site. Read the rest »
Website Performance Tools
I mentioned in my previous Trail Log that my look at the new Site Performance feature in Google Webmaster Tools tools led me down a rat hole looking into ways to optimize my website. Since I use WordPress I approached this as WordPress optimization, but the reality was most of this was basic web optimization. I did use these tools to help decide which WordPress plug-ins & features to use. Plug-ins or features that degrade performance for little benefit were dropped. In this article I’ll discuss the tools it led [...] Read the rest »
