Speed Up your Blog with PHP Speedy

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.

PHP Speedy

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.

Abe Olandres

Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

https://www.yugatech.com

14 Comments

100% Batangueno says:

17 years ago

I’ll recommend this to my kumare.she need this one.thanks yuga!
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janice says:

17 years ago

good for those who use open free hosting
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MobilePhoneNation says:

17 years ago

I’ll try this one and will give you a review. :)

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BrianB says:

17 years ago

What’s happening to google?
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The Dark Knight says:

17 years ago

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.
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Jomark Osabel says:

17 years ago

A great find. Will try this plugin soon with one of my blogs. Thanks Yuga.
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jhay says:

17 years ago

Very interesting. Will play around with it this weekend. :P

@ 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.
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Andre says:

17 years ago

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…
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LiNTEK says:

17 years ago

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.

:D
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vern says:

17 years ago

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.
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Abe Olandres says:

17 years ago

@andre – it’s MyBlogLog and Kontera.
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Alfie Miras says:

17 years ago

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?
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