Tips To Optimize WordPress Website Speed
It is always necessary to speed up your WordPress website for enhancing the page views, improving visitors experience and it also helps with your SEO.
On the other hand, studies concluded that attention span of human being has been reduced to 7 seconds only and so now, you have a very little time for showing your users your content and convincing them to stay on your site for longer time periods. The users definitely leave a website which is slow even before it loads. Along with this Google, Amazon and other larger sites are penalizing all the slower websites by pushing them down in the search results hence preferring lower4 traffic for slow websites.
Therefore, in order to have more subscribers, traffic as well revenue from your website, it must be fast.
Now here I am sharing with you all that information which is necessary for you all for increasing the sped of your website as follows:
Tips To Optimize WordPress Website Speed
1. Choosing A Host That Is Good Enough
Shared host may always seem like a bargain When starting out. At the times of slow speed of site and frequent down turning high traffic periods it comes under another cost.
By publishing popular stuff and running your WordPress site in shared hosting can actually kill you. So inspite being the victim you can invest in proper hosting.
2. Starting With A Solid Theme
This may surprise you that the Twenty Fifteen ‘’framework’’ i.e. aka the default WP theme is totally lightweight as well speedy enough. Due to the fact that they keep the guts simple inspite using those bloated frameworks with excessive features which will never be used by you but would only cause your site to crawl slowly.
As verbalized by many people that the fastest premium framework is certainly the Thesis Theme Framework which surpasses basic WordPpress themes being easier to be customized.
3. Using A Plugin That Is Quite Effective
There are many WordPress plugins which are no doubt quite useful but there are some among all of them falling under the best caching category and improve the loading time on WordPress.org and interestingly EASY AND FREE TO USE.
Apart from this, the one which is the most preferred one is W3 Total Cache having all the needed features and easy to install. It activates when installed and elements are cached what your page is loading fast.
4. Content Delivery Network (CDN)
There is no doubt in saying or acknowledging that all big blogs are making use of this. And people involved in online marketing using WordPress must be know that blogs like Copyblogger etc are making use of CDN’s.
More importantly it takes all your static files on your site and let the visitors to download them as fast as possible by serving the files on their servers closely.
5. Image Optimization (Automatically)
Some of you may know that Yahoo possesses an image optimizer known as Smush having the capability to reduce the file size of an image but, not reducing quality. But, to do this with every image is difficult as well as time consuming.
We have an amazing plugin called WP-Smush It which is able to process all your images automatically while you are uploading them. It is very useful to go for this one at least for once.
6. Optimization Of The WordPress Database
One can use WP-Optimize plugin which lets you doing one simple task; optimizing database i.e. spam, post revisions, drafts, tables and many other to reduce the overhead by them.
Along with this WP-DB Manager plugin can be used in order to schedule dates for the optimization of the databse.
7. When Needed, Replacing PHP With Static HTML
It may be a little bit advanced but can certainly cut down your load time and increases the page loading speed.
I hope this article helped you to learn that how to speed up your WordPress and boost it’s performance. So, definitely it’s the high time for going for all the suggested techniques and be sure to test the speed of your site before and after and so you will realize the change by your own self.
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