Comments on: 5 More Ways for You to Speed Up Your Website

By: Eric Bannatyne

Eric Bannatyne — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:06:11 +0000

I'm not sure about that one. Because WordPress permalinks don't directly access files, but they do something with index.php. I don't understand those mod_rewrite rules, I just let WordPress handle that for me :P

I think it's fine with a trailing slash, because in WordPress themes, the_permalink() outputs the URL with a trailing slash.

By: Don Gilbert

Don Gilbert — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 18:50:07 +0000

I didn't know that about adding a slash. Interesting.

Taking that information, could it be said that if your link is NOT to a directory that you shouldn't add a slash?

For example, I use a custom permalink structure on my WordPress site, /%postname%/. This Transforms my WP URLs to http://mysite.com/sef-link-to-postname/. <- Notice the trailing slash. Even though that link is NOT a directory, it has a trailing slash. Would that slow down my website, because it makes the browser THINK that it is loading a directory, when in fact it is not? Should I change my permalink structure to /%postname% and leave off the trailing slash?

By: George Serradinho

George Serradinho — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:36:03 +0000

You have listed a few good points here. I have Super Cache and it helps a lot. One could also try and keep the plugins to a minimum, the more plugins the more load on your server.

Some things you could program in PHP to do. For example, Tweetmeme has a plugin, but they also give you the script coding for it. I use the script coding and then it's one less plugin for me. There are more examples.

By: Eric Bannatyne

Eric Bannatyne — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 03:01:57 +0000

Hua Chen: When there is a new post, the cache is rebuilt with the latest information. And you can use the rewrited URLs because normally, WordPress has to generate all the information when it is requested, but WP Super Cache gets the information from html files and inserts the html files into the requested page.

By: Hua Chen

Hua Chen — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 01:30:00 +0000

And does it mean we can not use the rewrited url such as: http://example.com/postname/ and only can use http://example.com/postname.html?

By: Hua Chen

Hua Chen — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 01:28:27 +0000

I have a question: WP Super Cache. If careted the html file, how can the reader read the newest information?

By: Hua Chen

Hua Chen — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 01:13:29 +0000

The add a slash tip is helpful, I think I should redesign my url, thanks!

By: Nicholas Z. Cardot

Nicholas Z. Cardot — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:39:37 +0000

Thanks for these great tips. I already have put a couple of them into practice and now I'll look into the others.