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In an effort to speed up the load time of my Wordpress website, I wanted to share one tip I learned.

Upload Photos to Flickr to Trim Down on Server Requests

There are several reasons why Wordpress web sites get bogged down. One of them is due to requests to the web server.

(The following explanation comes from The Three Easiest Ways to Speed Up Wordpress)

“Every single item on a page generates a separate request to the web server. That would include the HTML page, the CSS page(s), javascripts, images, movies, and any other item. A server can only handle a certain number of requests at a given time, so trimming down the number of items or off-loading content to a second server can dramatically improve performance. For example, if you are going to have a post with several images embedded in it, consider uploading those to an image sharing site like Flickr and then embedding them in your page. That way, when visitors come to your site the images are being served up by Flickr’s giant servers which can easily withstand the load.”

Tutorial: Inserting Flickr Files into Wordpress Blog

1. Create a Flickr account

2. Upload photos/videos to your Flickr account

3. Create a “set” of photos for each group you upload to keep them organized. I like to create a “set” for each group of images I am going to insert into one blog post.

Now you can add any image to your blog without slowing down your server!