Overview
WordPress can handle high traffic easily when properly optimized. The following settings help you stay fast even during traffic spikes.
1. Enable full-page caching
Install LiteSpeed Cache and enable:
- Cache → ON
- Mobile cache → ON
- Browser cache → ON
- Guest mode → ON
2. Use PHP 8.2 or 8.3
Go to:
Account Manager → Select PHP Version
3. Optimize your database
- Clean post revisions
- Clean wp_options autoloaded data
- Remove spam comments
4. Minify CSS/JS
In LiteSpeed Cache:
- HTML Minify → ON
- CSS Minify / Combine → ON
- JS Minify / Combine → ON
5. Enable Cloudflare
- Brotli compression
- Auto Minify
- Rocket Loader (optional)
6. Disable heavy plugins
- Security plugins (use Cloudflare + ModSecurity instead)
- Backups plugins
- SEO plugins with analytics tracking
- Statistics plugins (use server logs instead)
7. Use a lightweight theme
- GeneratePress
- Astra
- Blocksy
8. Optimize images
- WebP conversion
- Lazy load
- Compress to under 200 KB
9. Monitor usage
Check Resource Usage in DirectAdmin daily during peak hours.
