Speedup WordPress Page Loading Times With PHPSpeedy


PHPSpeedy

There are many posts and tools for speeding up WordPress. Some of them are gimmicks, but here’s one that actually works. PHPSpeedy is a new free script that significantly speeds up page loading times by making fewer HTTP requests, adding a far-future expires header, Gziping page components and minifying Javascript, CSS and HTML.

I’ve just added it to my site and it’s definitely working (ignore the slow loading NetAudioAds that all stalling my pages at the moment). Just take a look at the improvements I created below:


Test page With Firebug, before compression:

Before PHPSpeedy Compression

Same page with Firebug, after compression:

Test page with compression

As you can see the results generated by PHPSpeedy are very impressive to say the least! Installing PHPSpeedy is very easy (Note: backup your index.php file before attempting this. If you are unsure of what you are doing, please don’t try this!)

  1. Download PHPSpeedy to your blog’s root directory
  2. Change mod the PHPSpeedy config file to 777 and then go to http://www.yoursite.com/php_speedy to configure PHPSpeedy
  3. Choose which options you want to use (I left all on as default except for ‘GZIP Page’ as it stopped my homepage loading). Once done PHPSpeedy creates a test page to check that everything is working ok
  4. If it is, then add the following the code as instructed by PHPSpeedy at the TOP and BOTTOM of your theme’s index.php file

Note: I couldn’t get it to work with WP Super Cache enabled, so I disabled the cache as I’ve been having problems with it anyway

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Everton is based in London and has worked in the internet and mobile space for over ten years now, and before that worked in corporate strategy and consulting. He has a degree in Economics from Cambridge University, and currently runs the Portal and online operations for one of the largest ISPs in the UK. He also writes for Windows 7 News.

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  1. #1

    This is interesting. I recently used WP-Cash to speed up the process it worked fine too.. Hmm have to test this as well.. Thanks buddy,

  2. #2

    [...] Everton’s instructions, I added PHPSpeedy to my site in around 2 minutes, and my pages speeded up instantly. [...]

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  8. #8

    This looks very cool but if it works with WP-Cache because I have enabled on my side to speed things up?

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