Well, not really , but it made a great headline, don’t you think?! But don’t be disappointed as in this post I want to share yet another great option for speeding up your blog – PHP Speedy for WordPress. After all – faster your blog loads, less chances that visitor leaves.

Let’s Turn WordPress Into Speed Demon using PHP Speedy plugin!

I’m a Stats Junkie! I track a multitude of the variables on my blog and use them to determine effectiveness of my blog posts, my readership and structure my Blog Design and Marketing Strategies based on what I learn. I have to admit that sometime I think I spend too much time on these tasks but hey - it beats the Guesswork!

Since multiple stats packages present us with a slightly different information I tend to use each one for a very specific tasks and performance evaluation. But implementing all the tracking introduces tremendous extra load times to our blogs and in this post I will share how an implementation of ONE plugin decreased loading speed of my blog 10 times!

In this article I want to discuss one simple and yet, extremely important aspect of WordPress blog – page load speed and how to improve it enough to be able to Survive The Digg. God forbid your blog post becomes popular and makes it to front page of digg when it is not ready for it! Not only do you face the wrath from pissed off visitors but also possible issues with your host.

WordPress in its current state faces one of the biggest issues – loading speed and according to Ryan this will be one of the most important part of 2.4 release – optimizing performance. But what do you do in mean time?

Design Your WordPress Blog To Survive The Digg