How To Make Your Website Or Blog Faster

Posted on February 17th, 2008 in Blogging, Programming, Web Hosting, Wordpress :: 8 Comments

There are a lot of different ways you can increase the speed of your website, even if you have relatively cheap hosting. If you're lucky, your blogging platform already has a caching engine built in (Drupal does). If you're unlucky, and running something like Wordpress, you have to do a bit more work. Caching makes a website more responsive because it takes an expensive operation (such as a long database query) and stores it so that next time it doesn't have to recompute it entirely. For example, when you go to this website, ...

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