Performance improvement of WordPress by accelerating Nginx

As mentioned by this tweet, I am interested in accelerating web service.

In this article I accelerated Nginx which is service window of WordPress.
I performed benchmark before and after.

You can see where it is.

Other improvements are in this article.

How to accelerate WordPress

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2021.10.08

What I did

I added this line in http block of Nginx configuration file.
– You can refer official document how to write.

fastcgi_cache_path /var/cache/nginx/fastcgi_cache levels=1:2 keys_zone=wpcache:30m max_size=512M inactive=600m;

This is server block.
– fastcgi cache condition.
– Expires header for static contents like png, jpeg or others.
– Link
– Open file cache introduced.
– Link

  location ~ \.php$ {
     fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
     fastcgi_pass wordpress:9000;
     fastcgi_index index.php;
     include fastcgi_params;
     fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
     fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_path_info;
+    fastcgi_cache wpcache;
+    fastcgi_cache_key "$request_method:$scheme://$host$request_uri";
+    fastcgi_cache_valid  200 60m;
+    set $do_not_cache 0;

+    if ($request_method = POST) {
+      set $do_not_cache 1;
+    }

+    if ($query_string != "") {
+      set $do_not_cache 1;
+    }

+    if ($http_cookie ~* "comment_author|wordpress_[a-f0-9]+|wp-postpass|wordpress_no_cache|wordpress_logged_in") {
+      set $do_not_cache 1;
+    }

+    if ($request_uri ~* "(/wp-admin/|/xmlrpc.php|/wp-(app|cron|login|register|mail).php|wp-.*.php|/feed/|index.php|wp-comments-popup.php|wp-links-opml.php|wp-locations.php|sitemap(_index)?.xml|[a-z0-9_-]+-sitemap([0-9]+)?.xml)") {
+      set $do_not_cache 1;
+    }

+    fastcgi_no_cache     $do_not_cache;
+    fastcgi_cache_bypass $do_not_cache;
+    add_header X-F-Cache $upstream_cache_status;
   }

+  location ~* \.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|css|js|swf|ico|pdf|svg|eot|ttf|woff)$ {
+    expires 60d;
+    access_log off;
+  }

+  open_file_cache max=100000 inactive=20s;
+  open_file_cache_valid 30s;
+  open_file_cache_min_uses 2;
+  open_file_cache_errors on;

You can reflect these changes by restart/reload Nginx.

Before vs after

I use this article image which runs on Raspberry Pi 4 as “Before”.

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I measured with below condition.

- Using LightHouse in Developers Tools of Chrome browser.
  Checking Performance only
- Taking median as representative(n = 5).
- Measuring on secret tab of Chrome.

Before
<—Mobile Desktop—>

After
<—Mobile Desktop—>

Mobile improved 6 points, Desktop did 12 points!
Mobile is over 150% better than before!

Conclusion

How was it?

Yes, you can do it!