Wordpress Site Customization Tips to Speed up Browsing via Wordpress Plugins

Reliability is just not always necessary for the success of web blogging but browsing speed matters a lot. People browse millions of web pages daily for getting information and they have hundreds of choices to browse but, the faster a web page browse, the more time a user is saving on the internet. It creates heavy traffic and revenue. In this article we will understand that how to use wordpress plugins for front end and back end optimization.

There are two sections of this article.

1. Wordpress Utility Plugins
2. Wordpress Cache Plugins

I have listed many plugins in this article which are used for optimization but you have to choose what fits your requirements.

Wordpress Utility Speed Related Plugins

PHP Speedy

PHP Speedy is a script that you can install on your web server to automatically speed up the download time of your web pages. Here’s an example, from a test page:

Before PHP Speedy – 14 requests that took 4.44 seconds

After PHP Speedy – 4 requests that took 1.1 seconds

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CSS Compress

CSS Compress is a nice plugin to reduce the size of bloated CSS files. It removes comments as well as white space characters from the CSS (new lines and tabs). It also performs GZIP compression. Using this plugin reduces the CSS for the default “Kubrick” theme from 8 KB to 1.7 KB! It’s also very easy to install and use. If you are using the W3 Total Cache plugin then you shouldn’t need to use a CSS compressor plugin.
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Digg Protector

The Digg Protector will protect your blog from suffering from the Digg effect. When writing a post, give the HTML image tags a “protect” attribute to protect them. This means that when visitors from Digg come, they will be shown the image in the “protect” attribute. Otherwise, if they are not from Digg, they will be shown the image given in the “src” attribute. A basic HTML knowledge is recommended to use this plugin.
It is intended that this be used to reduce server load if a page on your site is Digged. It is intended that you give a locally-hosted image in the “src” attribute, and a remotely-hosted image in the “protect” attribute, so the Diggers won’t be loading all the images from your server.
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Optimize DB

For some People running WordPress, the use of phpMyAdmin appears to be a risky thing. There’s just too many options. This plugin lets you do just one simple task: optimize the tables of your database, to reduce their overhead.
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Clean Options

The Clean Options plugin provides an easy way for WordPress bloggers to manage their wp_options table. It has many built in safety features that will help prevent accidental deletion of table rows that may be needed for the error free operation of the blog. It’s goal is to give plugin users an easy and safe way to get a bloated wp_options table down to a manageable size, thus improving the performance of their blog, and keep it that way.
It also provides warning messages that will alert plugin users of potential problems that are encountered. In addition to the warning messages, option names can be double-checked by following the link to the wp-admin/options.php page, using the Google search links, and by searching the wp-content folder for files that contain either the option_name outside of get_option, or fragments of the option_name (up to 3 pieces).
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IFrameWidgets

This simple IFrame widget can display any external HTML page inside an HTML IFrame component. The need came from the Hindi Tagcloud JSP and I always thought that there should be some way to display that page on my blog (if you are as lazy to edit your blog theme files, you would agree with me).
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Top WordPress Caching Plugins

W3 Total Cache

The fastest and most complete WordPress performance optimization plugin. Trusted by many popular sites like: mashable.com, smashingmagazine.com, makeuseof.com, kiss925.com, lockergnome.com, tutsplus.com, johnchow.com, ilovetypography.com, webdesignerdepot.com, pearsonified.com, css-tricks.com, yoast.com and others — W3 Total Cache improves the user experience of your blog by improving your server performance, caching every aspect of your site, reducing the download time of your theme and providing transparent content delivery network (CDN) integration.
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Hyper Cache

Hyper Cache is a new cache system for WordPress, specifically written for people which have their blogs on low resources hosting provider (cpu and mysql). It works even with hosting based on Microsoft IIS (just tuning the configuration). It has three invalidation method: all the cache, single post based and nothing but with control on home and archive pages invalidation.
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WP-Cache

WP-Cache is an extremely efficient WordPress page caching system to make you site much faster and responsive. It works by caching Worpress pages and storing them in a static file for serving future requests directly from the file rather than loading and compiling the whole PHP code and the building the page from the database. WP-Cache allows to serve hundred of times more pages per second, and to reduce the response time from several tenths of seconds to less than a millisecond.
WP-Cache started from the ”’Staticize Reloaded”’ by matt and billzeller. Most of their recommendatiosn also apply to WP-Cache. Current version, WP-Cache2, is a huge improvement over previous versions of WP-Cache.
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WP Super Cache

This plugin generates static html files from your dynamic WordPress blog. After a html file is generated your webserver will serve that file instead of processing the comparatively heavier and more expensive WordPress PHP scripts.
The static html files will be served to the vast majority of your users, but because a user’s details are displayed in the comment form after they leave a comment those requests are handled by PHP. Static files are served to:
1. Users who are not logged in.
2. Users who have not left a comment on your blog.
3. Or users who have not viewed a password protected post.
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DB Cache

This plugin caches every database query with given lifetime. It is much faster than other html caching plugins and uses less disk space for caching.
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1 Blog Cacher

1 Blog Cacher is a WordPress plugin that caches your pages in order to increase the response speed and minimize the server load, so it’s easy to display the content of the files and organize them (for instance deleting the cache for a given entry, for all categories, for all searches, for all posts from a given date, etc.
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I Hope this post will be very useful for the readers.