You’ve touched on a few things here, and there’s both the server and the frontend response time that you’re battling with. You might have issues with both. It’s worth noting firstly that PageSpeed (and the style recalcuating alert in the Chrome timeline) both deal with front-end aspects only – in slightly different ways though (another … Read more
You should be using get_the_terms(). wp_get_post_terms() queries the db to get post term info, where as get_the_terms() returns the post term objects directly from the post term cache and only queries the db if that info is not available. By default, all post’s terms are cached by the query being executed. EDIT I cannot comment … Read more
This is why AWS is great. Monitor you server and if that’s either too much or not enough, scale up or down. But it sounds like more than enough.
There is no theoretical limit on the amount of posts that can be stored and served. However, there will be a limit on what your server can achieve, in terms of database size, hard disk space and processor capacity. On an ordinary dedicated server you should be fine as long a you stick with a … Read more
Usually: no. When WordPress is running on apache with mod_rewrite enabled, it’ll use # BEGIN WordPress <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [L] </IfModule> # END WordPress To make sure that static files will NOT be served through WP. A plugin might … Read more
Option 2. Option 1 is just flat out incorrect, not a valid alternative. The proper methods for loading CSS and JavaScript in WordPress are documented here. Also, there’s no meaningful performance difference between the two.
… why the timezone is set to UTC instead of what the value I’ve set in the WordPress-settings-page WordPress calculates offsets from UTC, therefore WordPress sets the default time zone to UTC and not the specific time zone you selected in the Settings → General admin page. Is it a big performance-hit, to leave my … Read more
I would do most of my troubleshooting in the Debug Bar plugin along with the Debug Bar extender plugin. This plugin gives you detailed access to everything that is going on behind the scenes. It can also detail memory usage and execution time for each function and database query along with where it was called … Read more
The bigger the table, the more work adding a term becomes. There’s nothing unusual about it, it’s a matter of scale. Consider this: I’m at a pie eating contest. Once I go past 100 pies in a specific contest, eating a new pie takes a lot more time… To diagnose what is slowing things down, … Read more
You can easily scale a site to have tens or hundreds of thousands of BuddyPress groups. Groups themselves are negligible in terms of storage. When you start getting lots of forum content etc in the groups, you’ll have to worry about scaling, but you’d have to do that whether you were using BP as a … Read more