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Sep 12, 20118

How to Use Google Analytics to Track Your WordPress Site Speed

Categories: Blogging Tips, Site Optimization Tips
How to Use Google Analytics to Track Your WordPress Site Speed
Site speed is becoming more important to track and improve on since the search engines are using site speed in the ranking algorithm. A few readers have requested us to write a simple tutorial on how they can track their site speed easily. Here is a quick tutorial showing how you can use your Google Analytics account to track the speed of your WordPress site.Click on the following link to open the PDF file:How to Use Google Analytics to Track Your WordPress Site SpeedI hope this helps you easily track the site speed of your WordPress powered site. Once you have this setup you will need to optimize your site to make it faster. The article on how to speed up your WordPress site should help with that.
Aug 17, 201110

Split Testing on Your WordPress Site Using Google Website Optimizer

Categories: Site Optimization Tips
Split Testing on Your WordPress Site Using Google Website Optimizer
Since we published the Maximize Revenue 101: Should You Lower or Increase the Product Price to Increase Revenue article, a few readers have asked us to provide a step by step guide on how to setup split testing on a WordPress powered site. Google website optimizer is probably the best tool out there for setting up split testing.In this article we have included a PDF file with step by step guide on how to setup split testing using Google Website Optimizer and a WordPress plugin.Click on the following link to open the PDF file:How to Do Split Testing on Your WordPress Site Using Google Website OptimizerI hope this helps you easily setup split testing for your products on your WordPress powered site.
Mar 20, 20118

WordPress System Integration 101

Categories: Shop Admin Tips, Site Optimization Tips
WordPress System Integration 101
I see many WordPress users mixing up the roles of a WordPress plugin with a theme (kind of like mixing business with pleasure) on a regular basis without knowing what they are doing.  If you don't know why WordPress invented the concept of plugins and themes, then this article is for you. --Every time you build a WordPress site, you perform an act of System Integration.  You begin with the WordPress core, and customize it; by adding a theme and plugins.  But not everybody is a Systems Engineer; and in the process of constructing their sites, they sometimes make integration decisions that have costly consequences later on.In WordPress, "a theme modifies the way a site is displayed, without modifying the underlying software."  You select a theme based on the look and feel you want to (market or) present to your users.  Later, if you decide the look and feel of an existing site does not meet your (marketing) presentation requirements; you can simply choose another theme, without affecting the way a site functions.Depending on your functional requirements, you might use one or more plugins "to extend the functionality of WordPress."  You choose each plugin because it performs one or more ...
May 19, 201029

Plugins to Speed Up Your WordPress Site

Categories: Site Optimization Tips, Wordpress, Wordpress Plugin
Plugins to Speed Up Your WordPress Site
Speeding up your WordPress blog goes a long way to improve its popularity. As the website loads faster, your visitor enjoys browsing, driving high traffic and generating revenue. While there are many proven ways to boost a site's performance (a lot of these are explained in the WordPress Optimization Tips and Tricks post), in this article we will take a look at some WordPress plugins that allows you to perform critical front-end and back-end optimizations, within the comfort of your WordPress dashboard.In the first section of this article I have listed the well known WordPress caching plugins and my recommendation. The next section has a list of few nice utility type plugins which you might find useful (depending on your situation). Please note that you don't need to install all of the plugins listed here on your site (Just pick whatever fits your needs).Top WordPress Caching Plugins W3 Total Cache A lot of people still use the WP Super Cache plugin. WP Super Cache is a nice plugin but have you tried the W3 Total Cache plugin yet? If you are using a WordPress caching plugin and you have never tried the W3 Total Cache then you seriously need to give this ...
Apr 13, 201015

Site Speed is Now a Search Ranking Factor for Google Search

Categories: Site Optimization Tips, Web development
Site Speed is Now a Search Ranking Factor for Google Search
Google has officially made site speed one of the factors for search rank (there are over 200 ranking factors). So now is a good time to read the WordPress site optimization tips post and put some plan of action in place.Now, you have no reason to go into a panic mode just yet. Optimizing your site for better performance is always a good thing from a usability point of view but Google has indicated that only about 1% of search queries and even fewer search results will be affected from this change at this stage.There are several research statistics that show that decreasing your site load time on pages leads to an increase in sales which we all want. There are three things to take away from what Google is doing.Speeding up your website is a good general practice. Think about how many times you have waited for a site to load. When the site takes too long you usually end up closing the browser and moving on. This change will have a small impact on most sites, so don't panic. Small constructive changes can have a direct impact on improving your site and user experience. Instead of wasting time where it ...
Sep 15, 200950

Cool WordPress .htaccess Tips to Boost Your WordPress Site’s Security

Categories: Blog Setup, Site Optimization Tips
Cool WordPress .htaccess Tips to Boost Your WordPress Site’s Security
You have started a blog to share your opinion with the World Wide Web. Someone stumbles upon one of your articles. He likes it, and posts it on Digg. Now it gets everyone's attention. Visitors come pouring into your site. Your revenue starts to go up. Definitely good news! But now there is a catch. You are now the target of the 'bad crowd' of the Internet, spammers, hackers and leechers.It's time to toughen up your innocent little Wordpress site. The .htaccess file is the easiest and the cheapest (actually it's free!) solution to secure a Wordpress blog. What is a .htaccess File? The .htaccess file is a configuration file for use on web servers running the Apache Web Server software. When a .htaccess file is placed in a directory which is in turn "loaded via the Apache Web Server", then the .htaccess file is detected and executed by the Apache Web Server software. It is often used to specify the security restrictions for the particular directory.In this article I'm going to show you how to strengthen your site's security by adding/changing a few lines in this file.Before you make any changes, it might be a good idea to take a backup ...
Sep 2, 200922

2 Simple WordPress Blog Optimization Tips and Tricks

Categories: Site Optimization Tips
2 Simple WordPress Blog Optimization Tips and Tricks
I have been pretty busy with the WordPress plugin development lately, so didn't get a chance to write any posts for a few weeks. I think it's about time I share a simple but effective website performance improvement trick with the readers of this site that I have been using on all my sites. If you haven't read the WordPress site optimization tips and tricks already then you should read that first.This trick involves changing some of the dynamic wordpress queries to static ones which in turn reduces the number of database queries and improves site performance. This does require a little bit of PHP knowledge but it's really basic stuff.In your WordPress theme's header and footer you will see many statements similar to the following: bloginfo('home') This queries WordPress for the home URL of your blog (eg. http://www.your-site.com). Now, how often do you think your home URL is going to change? Most likely never! So why not replace it with the static information which is "http://www.your-site.com" and make one less database query?Saving one database query may not sound very convincing but you probably have many statements like the following that can also be replaced: bloginfo('html_type') bloginfo('charset') bloginfo('name') bloginfo('version') bloginfo('stylesheet_url') bloginfo('rss2_url') bloginfo('template_directory') bloginfo('home') Now multiply that by every page load per ...
Jul 13, 2009106

How to Add Far Future Expires Headers to Your WordPress Site

Categories: Site Optimization Tips
How to Add Far Future Expires Headers to Your WordPress Site
Few weeks ago I wrote on how to optimize your WordPress site for better performance which has some tips and tricks on how to speed up a WordPress Site. I received a few requests to elaborate on some of the points as not all of them are obvious changes. In this article I have explained how you can add far future expiry header to your image, css and javascript files to speed up your site.Adding expires headers do not affect the site load time for a first time visitor but you will be surprised how much the page load time decreases (faster page load) for subsequent page views/return visits from that visitor. Expires header specifies a time far enough in the future so that browsers won't try to re-fetch images, CSS, javascript etc files that haven't changed (this reduces the number of HTTP requests) and hence the performance improvement on subsequent page views.If your server is Apache (most web servers), you can use the 'ExpiresDefault' directive to set an expiration date relative to the current date. ExpiresDefault "access plus 2 months" This sets the expiry date of the file 2 months into the future from the current time. The following values can ...
May 30, 200993

WordPress Optimization Tips and Tricks for Better Performance and Speed

Categories: Blog Setup, Featured, Site Optimization Tips, Wordpress
WordPress Optimization Tips and Tricks for Better Performance and Speed
Is your Wordpress blog performing at it's best? How quickly does the page load? Is it sluggish? Your website's performance is one of the key factors in ensuring that the visitors are having a good experience with your site. So I personally think it is worthwhile to spend some time tuning/optimizing the site for performance. In this article I have listed various tips and tricks on how to speed up a WordPress Site.Before diving into the optimization tips and tricks I recommend measuring the current performance of the site so you have some benchmarking figures to compare against after you make the changes and see how it has affected the performance.How to Measure the Performance of a Site 1. I use the Page Speed tool from Google to measure performance and try to achieve a score of 85+ out of 100. Page speed has a browser addon to measure the performance of a site. Page Speed analyzes web pages and suggests ways to improve their performance based on a set of rules for high performance web pages.2. You can also use YSlow Firefox addon to measure the page load time of a site. YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the Firebug ...

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