The generic fallback for solving WordPress performance issues, in most cases, amounts to installing some form of page caching, either at the server, or more recently at the Cloud Edge.
But the growth of highly dynamic WordPress sites for communities, ecommerce and elearning platforms has introduced a new set of performance demands that can’t be solved by a simple Page Cache.
In this talk, we will take a deep dive into the performance demands of dynamic sites, examining the challenges highly dynamic WordPress sites face both at rest and under high concurrency.
With the challenges understood, we will then explore some of the techniques used by high performance hosting platforms to address these core issues:
– OpCache Optimization
– Object Caching at Scale
– JustInTime PHP Compilation
– Database index optimization
– Page level plugin removal
– Edge Side Includes and WooCommerce
– Media offloading