This is a series of articles explaining how to speed up WordPress, the use of which is growing rapidly for CMS-based business sites and media sites. In the next few articles, I will offer techniques to tune WordPress’ speed by 1000x. --Kengyu Nakamura, Prime Strategy Co., Ltd.

In the previous article, we installed PHP 7 to get double the performance of PHP 5, and sped up WordPress 12.5x the default environment.

In this article, we are going to continue tuning by installing Facebook’s PHP-compatible HHVM (HipHop Virtual Machine).

This is a series of articles explaining how to speed up WordPress, the use of which is growing rapidly for CMS-based business sites and media sites. In the next few articles, I will offer techniques to tune WordPress’ speed by 1000x. --Kengyu Nakamura, Prime Strategy Co., Ltd.

In the previous article, we created a PHP5.6+OPCache+APCu environment by installing EPEL and Remi repositories, and sped up WordPress 5.5x the default environment.

In this article we will switch to PHP 7 and improve performance even more.

This is a series of articles explaining how to speed up WordPress, the use of which is growing rapidly for CMS-based business sites and media sites. In the next few articles, I will offer techniques to tune WordPress’ speed by 1000x. --Kengyu Nakamura, Prime Strategy Co., Ltd.

In the previous articles we setup WordPress using CentOS 7 on Amazon Web Services (AWS) virtual cloud server Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and discovered techniques to speed up the site 5.4x faster. We only used repositories available from the standard CentOS 7 environment and configured gzip, Tuned, event MPM, and php-fpm.

In the next set of articles, we will speed up WordPress even more by using repositories outside of CentOS 7 and install PHP 5.6, PHP 7, HHVM (HipHop Virtual Machine), and Nginx to further tune our machine. This will all lead up to an Nginx+HHVM configuration that is 18x faster than the default environment without using page caching. Furthermore, we will achieve 1000x more performance in requests per second by adding Nginx’s FastCGI cache to enable page caching.

From here on, we will mostly be focused on requests per second rather than page load time. This is because as we continue to tune, we will no longer be able to overcome latency inherent in page load time, so measurement becomes less reliable.

This is a series of articles explaining how to speed up WordPress, the use of which is growing rapidly for CMS-based business sites and media sites. In part 4, I will continue to explain how to speed up WordPress by 540% just by using the standard CentOS environment. --Kengyu Nakamura, Prime Strategy Co., Ltd.

In the previous article , we installed the PHP accelerator OPCache, edited parameters for MariaDB, and installed a translation accelerator to get WordPress 480% faster.

In this article we will continue to push that to 540%.

This is a series of articles explaining how to speed up WordPress, the use of which is growing rapidly for CMS-based business sites and media sites. In part 3, I will explain how to speed up WordPress by 540% just by using the standard CentOS environment. --Kengyu Nakamura, Prime Strategy Co., Ltd.

In the previous article , we installed the PHP accelerator APC (Alternative PHP Cache) to get WordPress 250% faster.

Continuing with this article, we will use the standard repositories of CentOS 7 to speed up WordPress even more by accelerating the following:

1.    PHP execution time
2.    MySQL execution time
3.    Translation execution time
4.    HTTP response time

We will achieve 540% more speed by configuring Apache and the OS to be optimized without outside repositories or page caching.

This is a series of articles explaining how to speed up WordPress, the use of which is growing rapidly for CMS-based business sites and media sites. In part 2, I will explain how to speed up WordPress 250% by using the PHP accelerator APC. --Kengyu Nakamura, Prime Strategy Co., Ltd.

Last time, I discussed the need to speed up WordPress and the basic understanding required to do so. To speed up WordPress server side, you must have a basic understanding of page load time and requests per second. You now know that page load time is determined by:

1.    HTTP request time
2.    PHP execution time
3.    MySQL execution time
4.    Translation execution time
5.    HTTP response time

If you speed up each area you will speed up WordPress.

Using WordPress installed with CentOS 7 on Amazon Web Service’s (AWS) virtual cloud server Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), I will explain the various techniques to speed up your website server side.