Okay, so this might not come in handy for many people whose sites don’t receive a huge amount of traffic, but I think it’s a great idea to keep a handle on bandwidth usage –not to mention helping your site to load faster!

Take a look at this handy tutorial from Lonewolf-Online: Reduce WordPress Bandwidth Usage. It’s a solid walkthrough of how to find out which files are bogging down your server, as well as how to successfully compress your files. Very nice tutorial.

From file compression to caching and cutting down on database calls, stay tuned for a series of upcoming articles devoted to optimizing WordPress for best performance.

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