WordPress isn’t exactly the speediest app out of the box, although the community has done a commendable job in boosting application-level performance via clever caching plugins and patches.
Optimization of WordPress at the server level can yield the greatest performance gains of all, ensuring that the next time you’re retweeted like crazy, your WordPress instance can handle the traffic without a hiccup. And as the famous Yahoo! statistic goes, “”400 ms of extra load time caused a 5 to 9% increase in the number of people that clicked ‘back’ before the page even loaded.””
This tech-oriented talk will walk through the fine-tuning of Apache, MySQL, and PHP, and different strategies to decrease stress on your server that will more-than-likely double or triple your server throughput. Page loads will be snappier, assets will load faster, and the end-reader will get a much better experience.
If you’re not a tech guru — no worries. We’ll provide plenty of tips that you can implement yourself, and other that you can pass on to your tech guy.
