Performance Wordpress Checklist

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0.  RESOURCES
    http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2014/06/25/how-to-speed-up-your-wordpress-website/

1.  IDENTIFY PLUGINS THAT ARE SLOWING YOU DOWN
    https://wordpress.org/plugins/p3-profiler/

2.  COMPRESS YOUR WEBSITE
    http://checkgzipcompression.com/
    https://gist.github.com/illycz/1b896273dfd4cf26d184

3.  COMPRESS IMAGES
    https://wordpress.org/plugins/imsanity/

4.  LEVERAGE BROWSER CACHING
    https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-super-cache/
    http://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/how-to-install-and-setup-wp-super-cache-for-beginners/

5.  CLEAN UP THE DATABASE
    https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-optimize/

6.  MINIFY CSS AND JAVASCRIPT FILES
    https://wordpress.org/plugins/bwp-minify/

7.  TURN OFF PINGBACKS AND TRACKBACKS

8.  SPECIFY IMAGE DIMENSIONS AND CHARACTER SETS

9.  MOVE CSS TO THE TOP AND JAVASCRIPT TO THE BOTTOM
    http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_enqueue_script
    https://wordpress.org/plugins/bwp-minify/

10. USE CSS SPRITES
    http://compass-style.org/help/tutorials/spriting/
    https://github.com/filamentgroup/grunticon
    http://iconizr.com/

11. ENABLE KEEP ALIVE
    https://gist.github.com/illycz/37a9d5309fa7c4bcdb48

12. REPLACE PHP WITH STATIC HTML WHERE APPROPRIATE
    https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-super-cache/
    http://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/how-to-install-and-setup-wp-super-cache-for-beginners/