My WordPress site loads in under two seconds... does yours?

Create A Social Network and Monetize Today!

In this video we introduce the amazing W3 Total Cache & Smushit plugins. When combined with an inexpensive Amazon S3 account, you have the "Holy Trinity" of site optimization and speed.

Watch as we demonstrate how you can take an inexpensive shared-server, load it up with WordPress, BuddyPress, the LabSecrets Solution, and about thirty plugins... and still deliver pages in under two seconds. Amazing!

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[itbuilders]

Please cut the fluff in your videos. Preroll, postroll, and site promotion added several unnecessary minutes to this video. Ironic, given the topic! Also, the caching explanation is way off the mark. W3TC and similar plugins store a copy of dynamically-generated pages as static HTML on the server and content delivery network (not the client as indicated in the video). That removes the PHP execution time. Web browsers already cache objects like images, CSS, and JS libraries.

[LabSecrets]

@itbuilders - Cut the "Fluff"?? That's all I got is fluff!! ;-)

[iamvitaly]

Better use WP Super Cache plugin - the site will loads in a half of the second.

[designtech44]

I like the fluff, he's funny for a computer geek.... That's cool.

[itbuilders]

I can relate (re: fluff). My caching explanation was woefully incomplete. Generating static HTML pages also reduces the database server load. Each active WordPress plugin can generate several database queries per post/page, resulting in dozens of queries each time a visitor reads an article. A caching plugin not only speeds page delivery; it also allows a single server to scale to hundreds of requests per second. That's useful if an article is tagged on slashdot, digg, facebook, etc.

[MolramsGaming]

does this mean also the administration dashboard is affected as well?

[Mpaka]

WP Super Cache plugin make my sites to load in about 0.3 sec, with thousend of pages .Google webmastertools and all other onlineservices can aprove your light faster speed !

[chaukar]

W3TC is a too heavy plug-in, super cache is much better

[yahmana]

smushit oh shit

[sYs73m]

Such a great review of this plugin! Lots of information and questions clarified. Thank you! :)