When managing the website, the size of the entire website
source code contributes very important to operating the website for a long time
in the future. For example, if the total site size is low, moving the website
to other servers is easier, or the data backup is fast without problems. On the
contrary, the capacity is too high compared to the actual size of the website
will cause many difficulties, especially the backup will be much harder.
However, I do support for how many times many of you do the
website without thinking about optimizing the source code in the right way so
there are many cases where the website is not much data that the total content
Reached up to a dozen GB. In this article I will share a little about what to
know and should do with the website to save space but still ensure does not
affect the operation of the website.
OPTIMIZE IMAGES BEFORE UPLOADING
WordPress has a powerful image manager and I encourage
people to upload photos directly to the host of the website for us to reuse or
manage, on the one hand also make their images more secure than the. upload to
other image hosting services.
However, not every image we upload on the website that need
to be optimized before upload. Assuming your image has a resolution of up to
2k, 3k (maximum width) but actually users on the site do not need that, because
if the content width on the website is only 800px, your image No matter how
sharp it is, it only shows 800px and you want to see the full click on it, but
this is only for high quality websites like photography websites, wallpaper.
With website sales, the image should only have a maximum width of 1000px
because that is enough for customers to see the product, if it is too slow then
the website is really losing customers than it is. small.
Next is sometimes the image size is too high compared to the
quality of it needed to display on the website. So before uploading you should
reduce the image size properly, reduce the capacity sometimes image quality will
be difficult to see the difference with the naked eye so you do not need to
worry. You can install the EWWW Image Optimizer, WP Smush plugin or more,
invest $ 5 / month using Kraken as yourself to optimize images when you upload
to the website.
And finally, take control of the self-generated image files
of WordPress that we sometimes do not need, on how to handle self-generated
images and remove unused images. Treat your WordPress image as a full set.
DO NOT SEND BACKUP TO HOST
Backup website data for the purpose of restoring your
website data when the data is corrupted or the current host has problems can
not access but need to move the website data through another host. So then we
save the backup on the host itself is running the site is almost nonsense, but
also dangerous to waste the host.
You should keep these backups in safe places like cloud
storage services such as Dropbox, Google Drive or Amazon S3 (recommended)
because your computer is not sure it is safe and stable. More than the host,
the other great service is that they are very reputable and almost impossible
to interrupt.
Do not think that when backing up we will download the
backup and upload to the other services, time consuming. You can use the
BackWPUp plugin or BackupBuddy to back it up and upload it yourself to the
other hosting services as quickly as possible.
CHECK LOG AND DO NOT LOG IF NOT REQUIRED
In addition to backup, log files or log access (host log) on
the host is the main culprit of the resource consumption of the host. For the
error log website, we sometimes do not need to save the log continuously
because there is always need to see log error, but only when debug to find
fault or patch will need to pop up. If you do not want the webserver to log the
error logs on your website, simply add the following to wp-config.php (preferably for the top, below <?php).
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Next, make sure you set WP_DEBUG is false wp-config.php to disable debugging. And delete the .log or error_log file on the host if
there is.
For access logs we can not turn off using Shared Host, but
if we use our own server, we can disable it by deleting the access log
statement in the webserver setup file.
CHECK THE CONTENT WP-CONTENT
Many plug-ins save unnecessary data in the wp-content directory
such as plugin log files or temporary files. In the wp-content directory,
except for the cache directory and the image, we should not add anything here.
NOT SAVE VIDEO OR COMPRESSED FILES DO
If you have a lot of video sites, it's best to upload them
to YouTube if you do not need to hide your videos. Or if your video needs to
pay for a new viewer, the more you should not upload to the host running
WordPress because regular players can be easily downloaded through the support
software like Internet Download Manager is the typical example, instead. You
can use Wistia or SproutVideo to prevent download.
As for the compressed files for others to download, you can
upload to hosting services such as Mega.co.nz, Fshare or paint to find a cheap
server service but have high hard drive to upload and For users to download
there.
OPTIMIZE DATABASE
Database also uses the hard drive on the host to save, which
means that the larger the database, the more storage capacity, and when backing
up the entire website it will save to the backup so the capacity will be huge.
I have just witnessed a WordPress site using Woocommerce with a database up to
4GB and the data is now 3.7GB junk, this is completely true.
Be sure to optimize your database's wp_options table so that
it does not contain a lot of junk data, and you should also manually clean the
database periodically so that your data is smooth. The longer your database is,
the harder it is to optimize.
If you use WooCommerce then check the wp_options table is
large, if so, because it contains many unused session and transient, run the
following command several times to clean up.
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If your database is large then you should run this command
many times, because you should limit it to delete every 20000 lines to avoid
stuck host by MySQL processing too much.
Currently the database of thachpham.com is exactly 32MB, I
have not deleted the data not used in wp_postmeta anymore. Say so so you understand
that WordPress does not eat as many databases as you think.
LAST WORDS
The content above I have also seen the optimization of the
website size is not too complex as we think, but the benefits of it is very
large, because you certainly will not be able to save the website on. Same with
a host for a long time that may need to move to another place, and light data
will help us do things faster and simpler.
How big is the source code of thachpham.com? Exactly 800MB
uncompressed, compressed tar.gz format is still more than 700MB.
