Sat, 14 Jun 2025 12:15
Level: Beginner
Track: Content creator
The generic fallback for solving WordPress performance issues, in most cases, amounts to installing some form of page caching, either at the server, or more recently at the Cloud Edge.
But the growth of highly dynamic WordPress sites for communities, ecommerce and elearning platforms has introduced a new set of performance demands that can’t be solved by a simple Page Cache.
In this talk, we will take a deep dive into the performance demands of dynamic sites, examining the challenges highly dynamic WordPress sites face both at rest and under high concurrency.
With the challenges understood, we will then explore some of the techniques used by high performance hosting platforms to address these core issues:
– OpCache Optimization
– Object Caching at Scale
– JustInTime PHP Compilation
– Database index optimization
– Page level plugin removal
– Edge Side Includes and WooCommerce
– Media offloading
Presentation goal & learning objectives
Dynamic WordPress sites present new performance challenges that cant be solved by Page Caching alone and in most cases simply moving to a bigger plan wont address the underlying issues.
Dynamic sites require special consideration and planning, but with care, they can delivery exceptional performance and high levels of scalability.
Just because your WordPress site has become successful doesn’t mean you need to look elsewhere as you grow.
Presentation audience
Site Owners
Developers
People considering moving away from WordPress because they believe it cant scale or perform as well as a SaaS