Web browser tips and tricks are the simple solutions you can use to make use of the internet optimally. Moreover, having a faster website is in fact another point most internet users expect. Therefore, here are some key points you should notice in order to make your website faster and more optimum, especially when you are using WordPress.
However, before the instructions are carried out, there are some internet tools that are necessary to be installed on your computing machine. Some of them include Webkit Web Inspector, Firefox, Firebug, YSlow, Page Speed, and WebMaster Tools.
Well, let’s get straight to the first step to improve your WordPress performance. It is suggested for you to minify and optimize your CSS — you can simply find this through Analyze Performance > Minify CSS. The second step explains that optimizing images is necessary. You can use Photoshop’s “Save for Web” to minimize the file size when your images are too large, and there are three internet tools recommended: Page Speed, YSlow with its AllSmush.it menu, and ImageOptim.
Also, you can prevent hotlinks to images by adding a particular rule to .htaccess, the rules are:
<ifModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www.)?speedingupwebsite.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .(gif|jpg|png|ico|bmp)$ - [F]
</ifModule>The third step of web browser tips and tricks is to redirect the RSS feed. This method is used when you use FeedBurner to collect your readers. All you need to do is add to .htaccess to perform:
<ifModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !FeedBurner [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !FeedValidator [NC]
RewriteRule ^feed/?([_0-9a-z-]+)?/?$ http://feeds.feedburner.com/SpeedingUpWebsite [R=302,NC,L]
</ifModule>Then, make sure that you replace SpeedingUpWebsite with your RSS id on FeedBurner.
Next, it is good to learn that WordPress handles requests from search engines to the robots.txt file, so you can leave the file as-is and your performance will be better. However, if you are searching for more extreme performance, you can try to create a static version identical to the current dynamic one. Note that the robots.txt file is placed in the website root, so you will need to copy the content and paste it into a new file.