Read the original article at 5 Tips to Cache Websites and Boost Speed
Often when we think about speeding up and scaling, we focus on the application layer itself. We look at the webserver tier, and database tier, and optimize the most resource intensive pages.
There's much more we can do to speed things up, if we only turn over the right stones. Whether you're using WordPress or not, many of these principals can be applied. However we'll use WordPress as our test case.
Test Your Website speed
There are web-based speed testing tools that will help with this step. Take a look at Webpagetest , …
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