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Speed Up Your Website: Part One

Update:

Part two of this article is now up with a lot more tips and tricks on how to speed up your website!

When I first designed curtishenson.com I took into no consideration the speed that it loaded. OK, that isn’t entirely true. I compressed my images…a little, some of my javascript was compressed, and my CSS is compressed(but only because I was trying out the new Blueprint CSS compressor). So when my site actually got content on it, everything started grinding to a halt. I tried speeding it up with WP_Cache, then Super_Cache, then phpSpeedy. But I still had problems. I was planning on starting to advertise more, release a new premium theme and my site really needed to be faster Continue Reading