If you have a huge site, chances are you also do a lot of data processing – imports, exports, calculations etc. These kind of batch processing jobs that max out the CPU and disk are the mortal enemy of real-time transactions. Your web visitors demand real-time interaction and fast response from your site, so if […]
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Since pivoting the business slightly to focus almost entirely on plugin development, I’ve had to make moves to actually bring in enough revenue from plugins to support operations. Part of that was bringing in Freddy Jones, our new affiliate marketing manager. One of the first things he did was to contact Rehub – a popular […]
Everyone else measures theme performance using GT Metrix. If you go do a Google search now for ‘fastest WordPress themes’ or similar, you’ll find EVERY ‘review’ is just measuring GT Metrix or Pingdom scores. These scores only tell you client-side performance. If you want to skip the bullshit, you can go check prices for the Rehub theme […]
The Foundthru site has been built to demonstrate the functionality and performance of the various plugins available from www.wpintense.com. Key Facts FoundThru contains over 800,000 affiliated products This server is a $40 per month Digital Ocean server The server stack is the Rocket Stack The site is uncached so you can see and feel the raw […]
There’s a new update for Scalability Pro out. It includes two new options to further optimise the scalability of your website. Replacing LEFT JOINs with WHERE EXISTS Scalability Pro now includes a new option in the settings page to attempt to rewrite WP_Query LEFT JOINs to use WHERE EXISTS instead. For those of you who […]
Over the 2 years of running WP Intense, I’ve had many questions from clients asking to review the performance of their website. In this article I’ll cover the most common issues and the easiest solutions to solve your performance and scalability. Uncached versus Cached Performance and TTFB Firstly, it’s important to understand why uncached performance […]
This article presumes you have a fresh Ubuntu 16.04 server and you can log into it. I recommend using SSH keys if you can, but that doesn’t affect this article. Install PerconaDB Run the following commands to install PerconaDB: wget https://repo.percona.com/apt/percona-release_0.1-4.<span class=”k”>$(</span>lsb_release -sc<span class=”k”>)</span>_all.debdpkg -i percona-release_0.1-4.$(lsb_release -sc)_all.debapt-get updateapt-get upgradeapt-get install percona-server-server-5.7 -q -y Note: The […]
Some of you may be aware of my External WordPress Images plugin – it basically lets you avoid storing images in WordPress and instead the images are fetched from a remote location. This speeds up imports massively. But what if you are importing images and still want faster imports? Debugging WordPress Import Performance Firstly, I […]
I’d covered this a while ago, back on the AWD site, but it’s worth covering again. When Datafeedr Product Sets load products into your website, they don’t load images at that point in time. Instead, images are downloaded on-the-fly which means users will see slow performance if they are the first to view this particular […]
None of the WordPress migration or backup and restore plugins can handle huge sites reliably – you’ll run into timeout issues etc. Here’s how to migrate your huge sites reliably. The guide below presumes you have an origin WordPress server and a destination WordPress-ready (PHP+MySQL+Nginx) server. Use SSH and Screen You need to be able […]