We were recently delighted to see a detailed writeup about optimizing WordPress by Rob Havasy, a blogger by night and business analyst by day. He’s been running his WordPress-powered blog since May 2009 and everything had been going quite nicely until recently:

But I noticed a sudden decrease in performance earlier this week and couldn’t understand why. I was having both resource issues on the server (PHP was consuming too much processor capacity and my host automatically killing the process occasionally) and an overall slowness on the pages. How would I track down what was going on?

Rob goes on to explain how one of the plugins he was using had begun to have performance issues (apparently due to a 3rd party API slowing down) and not until he disabled the plugin did his WordPress-based site performance improve dramatically. The best part? He discovered the problem and confirmed the fix worked by using BrowserMob’s free monitoring service.

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