Improve Your WordPress Blog Load Times
My most excellent and helpful web hosting company Dreamhost has done the extra research of finding out why my dragonblogger.com web site was having outages and running slow, it turns out that my sheer number of wordpress plug-ins were causing memory leaks and causing my site processes to run wild. I did have over 50 wordpress plug-ins installed and I decided to trim down the number and remove non-essential ones.
I write posts about plug-ins so most I install to test, write about and then do a review about, but I always forget to deactivate and uninstall them when I am done. I decided to experiment on my personal blog first. Using the FireBug plug-in for firefox, My personal blog was having an average load time of between 8 and 9 seconds normally lately. Which actually was faster than my dragonblogger.com I had 37 wordpress plug-ins installed on my personal blog.
I trimmed down to 25 plug-ins and consistantly got page refresh times now between 4 and 5 seconds, so by removing 12 plug-ins I was able to gain almost 100% improvement in page load times on my personal blog. I left some plug-ins intact and will continue to try others.
Now for DragonBlogger.com statistics, I have 57 wordpress plug-ins active and installed when I started, my page load times averaged about 7 seconds consistantly. I trimmed down to 27 active plug-ins, removed 30 active plug-ins and retested my page loads. My page loads now averaged between 4 and 6 seconds consistently shaving off about 2 seconds.
Note: To test performance I tried deactivating some plug-ins and then re-activating them to see if load times were affected.
CommentLuv does not appear to add any additional page load time to a page, nor does Custom Post Background, and many others.
I will continue tweaking, but even more benefit than pageload times, is now the overall apache instances shouldn’t hog as many memory and my site should perform better under load.
-Dragon Blogger
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One thing that will help a lot with load times is if you plugins are java and ajax type plugins. Like comment luv is since the upgrade. These pull resources mostly from their own files at the same time the page is loading. Less load on the page and the server.
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