WordPress Performance – Breaking It Down by HTTP Requests

WordPress can be a tricky beast as they say when it comes to web performance. Especially if you are comparing it against others running static sites. Because WordPress is based on PHP and most of the content is dynamically generated, it means you need to find other ways to optimize. In today’s post, we are going to dive into a fresh WordPress install and take it apart piece by piece, or rather by HTTP requests, to hopefully help you gain a better understanding of WordPress performance. WordPress can load a lot faster than what some people might lead you to believe! In this post, we are going to first tear down a fresh install and then afterwards make some improvements to it. Make sure to also check out our speed up WordPress guide for additional tips on improving WordPress performance. In this case study, we are running on NGINX, over HTTPS and HTTP/2. If you are starting a new website, we encourage you to take advantage of HTTP/2 right off the bat. Or check out our HTTP to HTTPS migration guide.
Understanding the basics when it comes to web performance makes it easier to apply advanced methods later.
Our fresh WordPress site is using the default Twenty Sixteen theme.
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