Performance Optimisation for various XML Sitemap plugins
Learn which of these 3 XML sitemap plugins is the only one that can scale, and how to achieve it!
Learn which of these 3 XML sitemap plugins is the only one that can scale, and how to achieve it!
If you’ve been following my stack guides, you’ll have seen how popular my previous stack-build guides were. That’s because they were incredibly fast for the price of the server you’re using. My previous guides included installing Varnish and PerconaDB. In this guide, these have both been replaced with new and better alternatives. Update: Since writing […]
Updated 28th September 2021 Solving WordPress performance issues is what WP Intense is all about. Here’s what our founder has to say: Fast websites make more money. When I optimise WordPress websites for clients, conversions go up, pages viewed per user go up, customer lifetime value increases and even inbound traffic from SEO gains a […]
One of our most popular articles is our guide to building your own WordPress cluster. If you haven’t seen it yet, you can build your own WordPress cluster. Our cluster guide involves setting up multiple nodes using Unison for file replication, PerconaDB Xtra-DB for database replication and an nginx load balancer to balance the traffic […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
If you have purchased, or are thinking of purchasing the Rocket Stack, here are the steps you need to take in order to get your droplet ready for us to build upon. You need your own SSH keys Firstly, you need to have your own SSH keys. If you are using PuttyGen to generate keys […]
If you’ve used tools like Pingdom, Google Page Speed Insights or GT Metrix, you’ll have seen that they can help figure out why ‘front-end’ performance of your site is slow. Front-end performance includes all the stuff that happens on the users browser. It doesn’t include things like PHP execution time or MySQL query time – […]