6 Tips to Speed Up and Optimize Your WordPress Plugins

The WordPress engine is pretty efficient out of the box, but once you start loading plugins the performance and responsiveness of your site might go downhill. On top of that the consumption of resources might become too big, possibly leading to a suspension of your hosting account (especially if you use shared hosting).

Over the years I played with and tweaked my WordPress plugins trying to achieve a good performance level, and below you’ll find the tips I learned along the way:

1. Use a Cache Plugin

Serving cached versions of your pages is one of the most efficient ways to speed up your site and to reduce the CPU and memory consumption on your server. Also, if you are not using the W3TC plugin yet I highly recommend you switch to it, as it works much more efficiently than the other plugins available.

2. Remove All Unnecessary Plugins

Unless your site absolutely relies on a plugin to work I would recommend removing it. Sure, you might need to lose a functionality or two, but in the long run this will keep your site running fast and securely. Keep in mind that it’s possible to hard code what some plugins do, as well. For example, instead of using a plugin to generate a list of “Popular Posts” on your sidebar you could create the list yourself with raw HTML. Instead of using a contact form plugin you could simply write a paragraph on your “Contact” page including your email address there. So on and so forth.

3. Pay Special Attention to Post-Level Plugins

On most WordPress sites and blogs, the bulk of the traffic goes to the posts. The homepage, the category and archive pages receive around 20% of the overall traffic, if that, while the posts receive 80%.

This means that plugins that act at post-level will consume most of your resources. Examples include plugins to change SEO aspects of your posts (e.g., All in One SEO Pack), plugins to display related posts and so on. As a result you should put an extra effort to either remove or optimize those plugins (more on that below).

4. Consider Substituting All In One SEO Pack

The All in One SEO Pack  plugin is certainly one of the best SEO plugins around, but it’s also pretty intensive on the resources of your server. For small sites this won’t be a problem, but once your traffic starts growing you might start to feel it.

A good alternative is called Greg’s High Performance SEO . According to the author All in One SEO Pack outputs 2000 lines of code per page load/view, while Greg’s plugin output only 700 lines.

In my opinion the main benefit of those SEO plugins is the ability to customize the title tag. If that is the most important factor for you as well you can be even more extreme and use no plugin at all. Instead use the piece of code below to create optimized title tags for your posts:

5. Consider Substituting YARPP

Along with All In One SEO Pack there’s another plugin that is very popular and yet very resource intensive: YARPP  (Yet Another Relate Posts Plugin).

One alternative you can consider is the Efficient Related Posts  plugin. The main difference is that the database of related posts is updated only when a post is created/updated, while other plugins tend to build the list on the fly, whenever a post is loaded.

6. Optimize Your Database Tables

As with any dynamic content management system, great part of the work your WordPress site does is related to getting, storing, removing and updating information on its database. That’s why optimizing your database tables can affect your site’s performance.

A nice plugin you can use for this purpose is WP-Optimize . It will remove your post revisions, clean your comments (e.g., spam and deleted ones), run optimization queries and so on.

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Maximizing AdSense Potential

Among the quickest as well as simplest methods to revenue on the internet is to use AdSense.
AdSense is a search engine program associated with marketing for the internet. It additionally tests along with other styles associated with advertisements, such as print out, radio stations, tv, as well as web downloadable content. AdSense advertisements could be webblogs, webpages, feeds, mini-movies, search results, as well as web domain names. 
So how can you earn? Here are suggestions you may use to begin generating income as fast as possible upon your web site. How to achieve not just a greater amount of views, but also the reader’s efficiency from your blogs that will bring in bucks?

1. Write interesting articles and make your website essential.
Interesting topics could make you load of views and hopefully many clicks. Indulge in writing about tips and tricks, tutorials and subjects that would most certainly make kind of interest for people and will make them click and view more.

2. Put your articles and promote your website via Facebook, Twitter or Myspace.
One of the smartest moves which you could do, especially upon knowing that someone whom you know could be interested in selected topics. That would really gather so much attention and will provide you with efficient money gathering. Opt for the place, or even the actual positioning, of the advertisements on the webpages. The majority of beneficial area offers shown to be close to the biggest market of your own web page using the advertisement encircled from your articles.

3. Call your friends and relatives. 
Your friends and relative would certainly like to see something you’ve written and will do it quite gladly, posting articles and sites on their pages. You’ll have somebody else who could promote you and make other people with same desires, have interest in what you really do.

4. Efficiency means everything. 
If you have about hundred views per day and also hundred clicks per day, then you’ll have very efficient income which could bring you lots and lots of cash in no time. And if you have hundred views and just one click, you efficiency is so minimal that it’s not even counted. Make sure you examine that advertisements function the greatest to the webpages. Screening as well as evaluating can help you create a far more efficient technique to supply the greatest click on via outcomes feasible from the advertisements. Search engines discovered that horizontally ads obtain greater click on via prices compared to straight advertisements as well as putting AdSense ads upon higher visitors, webpages ought to lead to greater income from the initiatives.

You may also put a search engine lookup package in order for your home based business homepage to assist and improve your own AdSense commission rate. Whenever a website visitor to your site utilizes the actual lookup package to consider a product, the web site ads associated and the actual lookup is going to be shown so when somebody ticks of via one of these simple advertisements, your own AdSense income increases.

AdSense system is really a fast and a simple method to include an extra income flow into your home based business web site. It could be a really rewarding effort.
 

Bio: The author is a marketing professional for an e-commerce site that sells promotional items.

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