eAccelerator: The Impact and Analysis of Plugins on WordPress Page Speed

I've been running a website using WordPress for some time now. With the use of plugins and customized templates, I've noticed that the loading speed of the blog's homepage is getting slower and slower. Last year, when I built a forum for a Warcraft guild, I came into contact with the vBulletin forum software, which is also built on LAMP. Considering the concurrent access characteristics of the forum, I installed the PHP acceleration extension ea (eAccelerator 0.5.9), and the results were excellent — it basically doubled the speed (details will be analyzed below).

When eAccelerator was enabled, the blog's response speed was indeed twice as fast as when it wasn't enabled. Let's take a look at the ab data (in the following ab command, -n represents the total number of connections, and -c represents the number of concurrent connections. Here, we'll use a total of 1,000 connections with 10 concurrent connections per request)...