Blog Optimization…it’s WAY too SLOW!

Posted by Michael
December 27, 2007

I use a couple of 3rd party monitoring sites including site24×7.com and mon.itor.us to check to ensure my blog is up and running. Over the past few days, I have only had a 94% uptime on my blog (according to site24×7.com) and this concerns me.

powered by Wordpress Multibox Plugin v1.3.5

site24×7 stats

I had personally experienced issues (e.g., not being able to connect to the mySQL db, other connection errors and incredibly long load times). So, I opened a ticket with Dreamhost and they analyzed my site. Their conclusion? Too many plug-ins…

It seems that your scripts are over utilizing memory on the server.
Most likely, this is being caused by some of your WordPress plugins.

and

I also noticed that you have the plugin “UltimateTagWarrior” which has
been known to cause problems.

Hmmm…Ok. I will go with that. I do have a LOT of plugins and many of them are enabled. It would make sense that this could cause some added drain on my shared server resources (Time to upgrade to Dedicated Hostings?) So, to make my blog a bit peppier, I have decided (with a bit of reluctance) to remove the following plugs. Please note, it’s not because I don’t like them, it’s just that I want to make YOUR experience a bit better! Here we go:

Just removing those 4 plug-ins seems to make things much better. Also, when I complained before to Dreamhost, they recommended that I use some sort of caching (thus I now use wp-cache plugin).

What possible issues might you encounter? Well, the only thing that I can think of is if Google cached any of my “tags”, those pages may produce 404 errors. I tested this and found an issue. My current theme (which is a modified HemingwayEX theme does seem to have some tag errors. Hopefully this is easy to correct.

HTD says: Hope the site is a bit faster! Let me know.

Share and Enjoy:

  • Digg
  • del.icio.us
  • Facebook
  • Google
  • Furl
  • Live
  • Ma.gnolia
  • NewsVine
  • Propeller
  • Reddit
  • StumbleUpon
  • Technorati
  • ThisNext
  • TwitThis
  • LinkedIn
  • Pownce
  • Slashdot
  • Print this article!

Related posts:

  1. Blog: TechDadBlog updated to WordPress 2.3 with some issues I took the plunge and installed WordPress 2.3. For...
  2. Blog: WordPress version 2.3 scheduled to be released Sept 24, 2007 A fairly significant update to WordPress is slotted to...
  3. Fix It: HemingwayEX without UltimateTagWarrior in WordPress 2.3 As mentioned in my previous post, in order to...
  4. Blog: New theme, new functionality, new bugs I have just recently applied a new theme to...
  5. Blog Fix: Twitter Tools plugin and WordPress 2.3 I’m going through and reviewing my site after updating...

General, Open Source, Software

If you enjoyed this post, please consider leaving a comment or subscribing to the feed and get future articles delivered to your feed reader.
Be sure to click on an Ad (like the one below)!