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WordPress Optimization/Cheat Sheet

This article is part of a series on WordPress Optimization

This is a quick list of the key areas in which WordPress can be optimized. The biggest gain for the least effort comes from caching.

• Server Optimization
  • DNS onto a separate server
  • Web Server optimization
  • PHP acceleration / optimization
  • MySQL tweaking (query cache, etc)
• WordPress Performance
  • Remove unused plugins
  • Optimize plugins
  • Optimize themes, hardcode static vars, etc
• Offloading
  • Offload static files to separate server
  • Optimized web servers like publicfile, lighttpd, etc
  • Offload feed traffic
• Caching
  • WordPress caching (application level)
  • Browser caching (client side)
  • Web server caching (server side)
• Adding Database Servers