Update 5 December 2009: Recommendation revised based on new data.
As promised, here’s a quick rundown of the WordPress performance plugins I’ve been using.
- DB Cache Reloaded = Big performance wins. Especially on shared hosting.
- Hyper Cache = Less noticeable improvement than DB Cache, but still noticeable.
- WP Minify = Essential. Every website should combine, minify then cache static text assets (like CSS and JavaScript) for production.
Note: I have used WP Super Cache in the past and have run into problems. Apparently it doesn’t perform too well on shared hosting setups. Also, in my experience, DB Cache outperforms Super Cache every time.
I have other thoughts about web performance that I’d like to share, but not today. Let me gather my thoughts some more and get back to you.
Know of any other good WordPress performance tricks? Leave a comment.
By Stefano December 4, 2009 - 10:45 pm
Interesting conclusion. Have you some numeric data? And how have you made the test? I’m really interested to understand if, in the real world, hyper cache worth to be installed or not (ok I’m the author and, of course, I use it, but…)
By Andrew Ramsden December 5, 2009 - 8:28 pm
Hi Stefano, thanks for dropping by. I don’t have numbers at the moment for hyper cache versus non-hyper cache at hand. I’ll run some tests tomorrow under my new shared infrastructure and get back to you.
By Andrew Ramsden December 6, 2009 - 11:55 am
Hi Stefano, I have published the results of my tests as a new post. I hope that helps.