Child WordPress Themes we try to code to be speedy and efficient, but there is also a lot that you can do outside of the theme to improve performance. In this post, I will outline the most important steps to ensuring that your Child WordPress Themes is running at like speeds.
Check Your Pageload Using Pingdom
To begin, we need a way of measuring the size and speed of the site with child wordpress themes. To do this, we use the free tool from Pingdom.com. Using
Pingdom Website Speed Test tool, we can do an initial test speed of our website.
Enabling gZip Compression
The first thing we do is to ensure that the site is compressed before being sent to our visitors. Allowing your server to compress files before sending them to your visitors will decrease page size by leaps and bounds. This can be achieved by activating gzip.
Cache your pages to provide static content
When your Child WordPress website is loading, there is a lot going on behind the scenes. PHP functions are executed and MySQL databases are queried to decide exactly what the output should be given to the visitor to the page. The less intensive queries on better, and the only thing better than less queries at all! Using a cache plugin, you can create a static version of your site and serve it immediately to visitors. Not only does this make your site load faster, it also decreases the burden on the server CPU, memory and HDD. There are some great plugins Caching there, and I would suggest using
W3 Total Cache.
Minify CSS and JavaScript files and Consolidation
Minimize CSS and JavaScript files removes unnecessary characters in the file, reducing the file size and reduce the time needed to download. Strengthening files together reduce the number of files that are downloaded, thus reducing the number of requests per page. Both these factors contribute to your page load. You can minify CSS files manually using this online
Minifier CSS and
JavaScript, or leave a plugin to do it for you. At the same cache plugin I used to see our previous step, W3 Total Cache, also it has an option to automatically minify and combine CSS and JS files. This generally works great, although you should always test your child wordpress site well to make sure that compressed files have JavaScript caused problems.
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