FriendFeed’s Real Purpose

[ NOTE: This is an older configuration, and my latest can be found
here. ]

If you are into blogging with
WordPress
you might have heard a lot of chatter about a new caching plugin called
W3 Total Cache. I’ve been a loyal
WP Super Cache
guy for a long while now, so I’ve been ignoring the hype.

Until now.

W3 Total Cache is fast. Like, stupid fast. But since I hate when
people say things like that and then don’t give me numbers, here are some
stats from my favorite monitoring site,
Pingdom.

Keep in mind, those relatively high numbers (~800ms) includes all the
overseas pingdom servers, e.g. London, Frankfurt, Coppenhagen, Stockholm,
etc. The actual stateside numbers are even more impressive.

Here’s another screenshot showing an obvious dip where I made the change:

From my Chartbeat dashboard I am now rendering my homepage in
less than half a second, where it was taking
nearly four seconds before.

Seriously. If you run a WordPress site and you frequently get hit by Digg,
Reddit, Hacker News, or any of the other meritocracy sites–or if you just
want to
improve your Google ranking–you should consider switching to
W3 Total Cache.

Next up I’ll be doing a writeup on moving my static content to Amazon’s S3
CDN (which is something that W3 Total Cache also supports natively) and
doing real-time performance tuning using
Chartbeat. ::

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