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How do you scale a web application as it becomes more popular? These tutorials teach you useful techniques for scaling your web app to handle your newfound success.

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  1. Speeding Up WordPress: Image Optimization

    Speeding Up WordPress: Image Optimization

    Tutorial Beginner

    In this three-part series, we're working through a number of different strategies we can use in order to speed up our WordPress website. In this final part,...

  2. Configuring W3 Total Cache: Advanced Minification Settings

    Configuring W3 Total Cache: Advanced Minification Settings

    Tutorial Beginner

    In the previous article about configuration of W3 Total Cache plugin, we completed configurations of Page Caching. The next part of the advance settings is...

  3. Configuring W3 Total Cache: Advanced Page Cache II

    Configuring W3 Total Cache: Advanced Page Cache II

    Tutorial Beginner

    In the previous post, we started configuring advance settings of Page Cache in W3 Total Cache plugin and configured the General and Cache Preload settings....

  4. Configuring W3 Total Cache: Advance Page Cache I

    Configuring W3 Total Cache: Advance Page Cache I

    Tutorial Beginner

    At this point, we have configured the General Settings of the W3 Total Cache plugin. Let's move on to the advance settings portion of this plugin. First,...

  5. Configuring W3 Total Cache: General Settings II

    Configuring W3 Total Cache: General Settings II

    Tutorial Beginner

    We covered half of the General Settings in last article. Let's move forward to configure the remaining options offered by W3TC. In this article, you...

  6. Configuring W3 Total Cache: General Settings I

    Configuring W3 Total Cache: General Settings I

    Tutorial Beginner

    In our last introductory article, I told you all about the importance of using W3TC plugin. Let's start configuring it today. We will cover half of the...

  7. Optimizing WordPress with Varnish and W3 Total Cache

    Optimizing WordPress with Varnish and W3 Total Cache

    Tutorial Intermediate

    If you self-host WordPress, it's advisable to implement some kind of caching solution. Whether you want to run your blog in an economical micro instance at...

  8. Configuring W3 Total Cache: An Introduction

    Configuring W3 Total Cache: An Introduction

    Tutorial Intermediate

    The page speed of an optimized website scaled for high traffic is a phrase which a developer often hears from the moment they enter the industry. There is a...

  9. How to Analyze Your WordPress Installation's Performance

    How to Analyze Your WordPress Installation's Performance

    Tutorial Beginner

    Installing WordPress is really easy. Optimization is what takes time. Not everyone who owns or maintains a WordPress website on their own is a programmer....

  10. 10 Quick Tips: Optimizing & Speeding Up Your WordPress Site

    10 Quick Tips: Optimizing & Speeding Up Your WordPress Site

    Tutorial Beginner

    We recently looked at 11 Quick Tips for Securing Your WordPress Site, which included some easy, but essential tips for the security of your WordPress blog....

  11. Working With Changing, Cacheable Data? WP-Transients Has Got Your Back!

    Working With Changing, Cacheable Data? WP-Transients Has Got Your Back!

    Tutorial Beginner

    Changing data is ever present in a WordPress-powered site. Be it a new post, an added comment, or an updated tweet for the front page, the status of a blog...