A potential client arrived yesterday on my Discord channel asking for help with slow WooCommerce Variations. It turns out, in their case, they only have a total of 72 variations and yet their product detail page was running incredibly slowly. As luck would have it for them, I was keen to get back into recording […]
After getting my website home page load time down to 1.3 seconds, with the help of Scalability Pro, Super Speedy Filters and Super Speedy Search, imagine my disappointment when recently, I was seeing times of 7 seconds+ on random visits to the website. Using Query Monitor, I was able to diagnose that a significant chunk […]
I upgraded Foundthru to the latest WooCommerce and after onboarding (updating the database) it keeps checking if I need to update the database with expensive calls on wp-admin. On foundthru with 1 million products, this increases wp-admin page load time from 3 seconds to 28 seconds. There’s no easy fix I can apply for this […]
For five years I’ve been solving WordPress performance problems. There are many patterns that exist out there that you can use to help you identify where slow bottlenecks on your site are coming from. Below, I try to impart that knowledge to help you get the speed you deserve from the hosting you’re paying for. […]
In the article below, I cover various tips and tricks to help you run your WordPress stack smoothly and easily. It’s focused around my Rocket Stack build, but can be tailored to any stack really. If you’re experiencing performance issues, you will probably also find my performance analysis guide useful. Securing your website Securing your […]
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It may be that you’re running a migration for someone, or you’ve decided to switch to using Digital Ocean volumes. Whatever the reason, downloading files from S3 using rsync + fuse is very slow. Here’s how to transfer files quickly. apt install python-pippip install awscli –upgrade –userpip install –upgrade pipapt install awscli Now, that’s AWS installed, […]