There are many ways to speed up the load time of your blog. The most popular ones are the WP-Cache and the SuperCache which were created to help your site survive a Digg or Slashdot.
WordPress even has that built-in option to allow compression (gzip) when the browser allows for it. The other one I just stumbled upon the other day is PHP Speedy. It’s a really simple script that you install on your webserver (or your hosting account) which automatically speeds up download time of your pages.
What it does is compresses all the files in one go instead of pulling the individual items separately. That could include your CSS files, JS scripts, and other components which reduces the number of HTTP requests.
I’ve tried this one my blog here and saw my page load dropped from 5.2 secs to just 2.1s. I’m not sure if it’s compatible to other plugins like WP-SuperCache but it’s worth a try. Download a copy of it here and the really simple instructions here.
Note: Of course, you’ll realize that what you saved on load time will cost your server some extra CPU cycles. That’s the trade-off.
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I’ll recommend this to my kumare.she need this one.thanks yuga!
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good for those who use open free hosting
I’ll try this one and will give you a review.
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What’s happening to google?
Yup, all Adsense are currently down. Thought I had my account banned or something. and google won’t load!
May downtime rin pala ang overlord.
A great find. Will try this plugin soon with one of my blogs. Thanks Yuga.
Very interesting. Will play around with it this weekend.
@ BrianB: So you noticed it too eh? had troubles logging on to Gtalk, then to Gmail and now the lone adsense unit on my blog is acting up. It appears on a page load then vanishes on the next then comes back again.
You know in general there is something on this blog which causes firefox to slow down. Its only noticeable probably on slower pcs like the one im using atm…
You are right Andre, or sometimes speed of connection is still the biggest factor. So this speedy php is going to be a great help.
eh, gzip doesn’t speed things up, more like the other way around. Bandwidth is pretty cheap these days when computer resources are much more limited. gzip requires more server resources.
@andre - it’s MyBlogLog and Kontera.
I am using wp-cache here, http://www.pinoysites.org/jcm/. But the greatest benefit of this is not on the blogger itself but on the webhost of the blogger since it will ease their database server processing, right Yugs?