Web browser tips and tricks to Optimize Your WordPress

Web browser tips and tricks are the simple solutions you can use to make use internet optimally. Moreover, to have faster website is in fact another point most internet users expected. Therefore, here are some key points you should notice in order to make your website faster and 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 in your computing machine. Some of them include Webkit Web Inspector, Firefox, Firebug, Yslow, Page Speed, and WebMaster Tools.

Well, let’s straightly go the first step to improve your WordPress performance. It is suggested for you to minify and optimize your CSS you can simply find 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 room when your images are too huge and there are three Internet tools recommended like Page Speed, YSlow with its AllSmush.it menu, and ImageOptim.

Also, you can prevent hotlinks to images by adding 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 RSS feed. This method is taken when you use FeedBurner to collect your readers. All you need to do is to 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 engine to robots.txt file, thus you can leave the file so your performance will be better. However, if you are searching the more extreme performance, you can try to create a static identical to current dynamic one. It is said that robots.txt file is placed in the website root, thus you will need to copy content and paste a new file.