Scaling WordPress for High Traffic

Imagine if you publish a piece of content on your business’s website that goes viral, substantially increasing the site’s traffic in a very short amount of time. Are you sure that the website can handle the larger load?

Discover how to prepare for these important high traffic events with WP Engine’s developer guide that walks you though steps and tools you can use to scale your site for high traffic. You will learn how to:

  •  Implement tactics to resolve MySQL performance issues 
  •  Keep your options table under control
  •  Reduce total queries and better use your data
  •  Speed up page load with CSS sprites and Image Lazy Loaders

Read this WP Engine guide to identify the elements that may be holding your site back, and help you better prepare for peak traffic.