In Wordpress Responsiveness Part 1 I introduced you to the basic concepts behind one aspect of your website’s performance: how fast it responds. In part two I will go into more details of using WP Super Cache to improve your site’s speed and responsiveness.
How Fast Does Your Site Load?
It is a question that matters to your readers, to Google (and other search engines), and thus should matter to you. This is likely obvious to you. What you may not realize is there are a few fundamental types of site/page speed and how you handle each of them matters. In this article I’ll walk you through some of those details.
Of late I’ve seen a lot of talk about “Time To First Byte” (TTFB). In a nutshell, TTFB is supposed to represent the time it takes for a web server to send the first byte of data to the client - usually a web browser. There are a variety of viewpoints regarding its usefulness.
Yesterday I ran across this article at CFO.com. As someone who started in this industry nearly two decades ago and planted firmly in the cloud, I’ve a few observations and admonitions.
CloudFront Log Importer is a set of python scripts that upon proper configuration will retrieve your CloudFront access logs, order them, and store them locally. It also improves upon the formatting of the file by adjusting some fields and making it a tab delineated file. It is designed to run via cron and can be found at the cflogimporter repo.
QShowpost is a command line utility for examining the queue levels of a Postfix server. How many messages are delayed? How many are in the Hold Queue? QShowpost will give you those answers.