Speed Up a WordPress Website in 8 Steps

Re:Speed Up a WordPress Website in 8 Steps by blakesterz on Monday January 30, 2017 @04:33PM (#13525247)

I'm curious what does a "medium traffic site" mean? I feel like I have a bunch of what I'd call "medium traffic sites" and I've not had much of a problem with them. Though, maybe my "medium" is actually "small"?

Is there a general rule of thumb for site traffic? Like a "medium traffic site" gets X Hits, or whatever?

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Re:Speed Up a WordPress Website in 8 Steps by brianwawok on Monday January 30, 2017 @04:48PM (#13525356)

100 requests / sec average seems medium traffic to me (and outside the bounds of wordpress live)

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Re:Speed Up a WordPress Website in 8 Steps by ac29 on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @01:53AM (#13528381)

8.6 million requests/day is only medium traffic?

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Re:Speed Up a WordPress Website in 8 Steps by brianwawok on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @02:11PM (#13534109)

Sure. Well let's call it 1 million per day peaking at 100 req/sec... not many websites are steady state 24/7

But this is orders of magnitude below what a Google or Espn or Amazon do. But orders of magnitude over what 1 PHP server can do. (But oddly enough, within the realm of possibility for a good Java or Go or Rust server)

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Re:Speed Up a WordPress Website in 8 Steps by NYMD on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @06:29PM (#13546507)

Nonsense.

I just ran a load test against WP yesterday and with a traffic load (from tsung cluster) peaking at 430 req/sec, it was easily served by 5 t2.micros running Varnish + WP (behind Apache no less) + memcached.

The load test included random search strings 50% of the time so half the tsung visitors were getting live service from Wordpress.

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