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How to make GD Website run faster

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  • January 15, 2016 at 3:59 pm #68593

    Roman
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    Hello,
    I’m seeking for an advice on how to make my website run faster. I’m using GD along with Buddypress and BBpress a some other related plugins.
    I’m new to the wordpress and websites in general, but as far as I understand that’s a hard thing to do, but there are a few ways to make it work for me.

    I’m considering to do the following for now:
    1. Host it on Cloudways (and have some server side managed properly)
    Question: Should I go with more RAM, more CPU Cores or having more reliable platform like Google or Amazon is more important? And should I actually bother with it?

    2. Use CDN or GDbooster
    Question: As far as I understood there is no way to use both of them, isn’t it? So should I go with CDN or GDbooster or maybe there is some other way to make all of them work?

    Thank you in advance,
    Roman.

    January 15, 2016 at 8:36 pm #68837

    Paolo
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    Hi,

    moving to a better server is the only way to go. To have a fast website you need both CPU and RAM.

    Digital Ocean server as as fast as Amazon from my point of view.

    CDN is usefull when you have visitors from all over the world, if most of your visitor are from 1 market you don’t really need one.

    GD Booster will definitely help by caching your html and serving minified and concatenated scripts and css.

    Hope this helps,

    Thanks

    January 15, 2016 at 9:37 pm #68841

    Roman
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    Thank you, Paolo.

    Yes, my website visitors will be from different countries and maybe continents, so I need CDN. Can I combine both CDN and GDbooster? How can this be done, because from some post I understood that they don’t work well together?

    January 15, 2016 at 9:41 pm #68843

    Paolo
    Site Admin
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    Currently that’s not possible…

    January 15, 2016 at 9:57 pm #68847

    Roman
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    Did I understood you correctly? I have to choose either CDN or GDBooster, right?
    IF so, can you advise any CDN network that is compatible with GD?

    January 15, 2016 at 10:02 pm #68848

    Paolo
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    At the moment yes, I believe any CDN is compatible…

    January 15, 2016 at 10:10 pm #68850

    Roman
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    Thank you very much, from your words I understand that in the future it will be possible to combine both of them. Can you tell how far is it from now?

    January 15, 2016 at 10:30 pm #68852

    Paolo
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    At the moment it is not at the top of our priorities. We have more urgent things to develop before working on this.

    I can’t really anticipate when…

    Sorry

    January 16, 2016 at 6:09 pm #68992

    Roman
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    Thanks, you helped me anyways. It’s a pleasure to contact your support team.
    By the way, do you have any page to see the future features release?

    January 16, 2016 at 6:14 pm #68994

    Paolo
    Site Admin
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    Hi,

    no we don’t, I’m sorry.

    We prefer to keep that internally and announce new features whenthey are ready for testing.

    Thanks

    January 20, 2016 at 12:09 pm #69494

    Roman
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    Hi I’ve got one more question regarding GD booster. Does it compress, cache and minify only gd related assets, or it also handles all other plugins active on the site, like buddypress, bbpress, blog and plugins related to them?

    January 20, 2016 at 6:23 pm #69576

    Paolo
    Site Admin
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    Hi, everything is taken care of.

    Thanks

    January 22, 2016 at 10:12 am #69906

    Roman
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    Great, thank you.
    Btw is it worth using image lazy load plugins like BJ LAZY LOAD with GD?

    January 22, 2016 at 4:58 pm #70030

    Paolo
    Site Admin
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    Not in my opinion, they don’t really speed up your website much (or at all) from my experience.

    Thanks

    February 11, 2016 at 11:33 am #120772

    Roman
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    Hello, guys, I have some more questions about optimization.
    I’ve noticed that the home page of your demo site is loaded with widgets and images, but it still loads quite fast and weights around 3.5 mb, where my site’s home page has twice less widgets, but weights around 4mb and loads quite some time.
    The only way I can make it load faster, is by throwing out everything and leaving just the map, search and popular post, but it’s too little.
    Are there any other secrets besides those mentioned in previous posts?

    Thank you.

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