This little series is about the things that really accelerate WordPress websites, moving them into the millisecond area of loading speed. A lot of manual work is required, as we found out in the last article. In this part, we’ll do the touch ups that are still left. We’ll tune URLs, put Jetpack on a diet, transform the website into static HTML pages via caching, and make videos load last. Performance: The Right Permalink Structure Permalinks in WordPress can be changed at will. WordPress allows us to create any structure we can think of. The natural structure of the WordPress permalinks is called messy URLs, as no clear structure can be recognized. A link right after a fresh installation would look like this: http://www.noupe.com/?p=123 This structure is not really readable by human and machine, and thus, people started using readable permalinks with keywords. http://www.noupe.com/example-post/ With WordPress, creating these links can be done very quickly, and at the moment, this structure is still the most popular one. However, many other arrangements are possible, like a date, the category, or tags, for example. This is not smart, though, as permalinks can drain your server’s resources massively. Who would’ve expected that? In general, […]
