Tom Dupuis

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How To Reduce CPU Usage In WordPress (AKA Bandwidth Limits) – That Annoying Restriction From Hosting Providers

By Tom Dupuis 59 Comments | Last Updated September 4, 2019

Download Bandwidth

I had serious issues with CPU overages on my WordPress site. All this means is we need to reduce the amount of resources consumed by high CPU plugins, images, wp-cron, databases, external requests (usually generated by plugins), comment spam, and prevent spammy bots from crawling your website using the Blackhole For Bad Bots plugin. We […]

Filed Under: WordPress Speed Tips & Tricks Tagged With: awstats, bandwidth, cdn, cloudflare, cpu, hosting, image optimization, wordfence, wordpress heartbeat, wp disable

The Ideal WP Rocket Settings With Cloudflare/StackPath CDN Instructions (Updated 9/26/2019, Latest Version 3.4)

By Tom Dupuis 166 Comments | Last Updated September 29, 2019

WP Rocket Basic Options

If you chose WP Rocket to make your WordPress site load faster, you made the best choice, considering it was rated the #1 cache plugin in many Facebook polls. WP Rocket comes with many features most cache plugins don’t. That means if you were to use most other cache plugins, you would need to use […]

Filed Under: Cache Plugins Tagged With: cache plugins, cdn, cloudflare, premium plugins, stackpath, wp rocket

How To Optimize Images In WordPress: The Art Of Creating Perfectly Optimized Images (20 Image Optimizations, 2019)

By Tom Dupuis 8 Comments | Last Updated September 4, 2019

Missing Image Alt Text

When it comes to image optimization, you’ve probably heard enough about alt text. There are actually 20 different ways to optimize images (if you include both SEO and speed optimization). These will give you better scores in GTmetrix/Pingdom, potentially rank you higher in search, and make your content load much faster. I’ve managed to get […]

Filed Under: WordPress Speed Tips & Tricks Tagged With: cdn, cloudflare, gtmetrix, image optimization, imagify, imsanity, stackpath

The Ideal Swift Performance Settings With Cloudflare + StackPath CDN Setup Instructions (2019, Version 2.0.5)

By Tom Dupuis 10 Comments | Last Updated August 21, 2019

StackPath CDN URL Swift Performance

Swift Performance is the new cache plugin on the block, which has been getting raving reviews in the WordPress Speed Up Facebook Group. I’ve been using WP Rocket and already had 100% GTmetrix scores with a 1s load time (hard to beat), but Swift gave me near identical results. I stuck with WP Rocket, but […]

Filed Under: Cache Plugins Tagged With: cdn, cloudflare, stackpath, swift performance

The Ideal Autoptimize Settings With StackPath CDN + Cloudflare Setup Instructions (2019, Latest Version 2.5.0)

By Tom Dupuis 11 Comments | Last Updated September 20, 2019

Autoptimize Extra Settings

Autoptimize isn’t the best cache plugin (WP Rocket and Swift Performance are #1 in most Facebook polls taken by the WordPress Speed Up Facebook Group with 15,000+ members). In fact, Autoptimize doesn’t even do caching. So why use it? Because some hosts like Godaddy and WP Engine blacklist most cache plugins (since they have their […]

Filed Under: WordPress Speed Tips & Tricks Tagged With: autoptimize, cdn, cloudflare, stackpath

How To Reduce Server Response Time (TTFB) In WordPress To Under 200ms – The Item From Google PageSpeed Insights

By Tom Dupuis 9 Comments | Last Updated November 25, 2019

Buyer Beware EIG

So you ran your website through Google PageSpeed Insights and need to keep server response times (ttfb) low in WordPress. Let’s get this out of the way. Servers are controlled by your hosting: Bluehost, HostGator, GoDaddy, and EIG brands are infamously slow and rated poorly in 40+ Facebook polls because of their overcrowded servers. SiteGround […]

Filed Under: WordPress Hosting Tagged With: cdn, eig, Google PageSpeed Insights, server response time, wp rocket

How To Fix Slow WordPress Hosting On GoDaddy (Using An Array Of Tools/Plugins) And How To Check For A Slow Server

By Tom Dupuis 55 Comments | Last Updated September 20, 2019

cloudflare-w3-total-cache-activation

WordPress site running slow on GoDaddy? You and everyone else. GoDaddy is known for domain registration, not hosting. iThemes called them out for packing too many people on the same server (which is how they cut costs). They’re also slow to release newer PHP versions, and of course, the CEO kills elephants and was boycotted […]

Filed Under: WordPress Hosting Tagged With: cdn, cloudflare, godaddy, image optimization, pingdom, siteground, stackpath, w3 total cache

ABOUT TOM

I write tutorials on WordPress SEO and speed optimization. I also fall asleep to serial killer documentaries along with other weird things you can read in my bio.

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• Rich Snippets
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• How I Got 1s Load Times
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• WP Rocket Settings
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