WordPress is more popular than another website
platform. However, the users sometimes have to face its slow speed. The users
need to take right precautions. If not, it will cause to lose subscribers and
customers. So, it becomes crucial to consistently speed up WordPress.
Why is consistent
speed important?
To hold the customers
on your site, it is needed that the customers don't get to deal with the slow
speed. Microsoft Bing search team's report stated that a 2-second longer delay
in page responsiveness reduced user satisfaction by 3.8%, increased lost
revenue per user by 4.3%, and reduced clicks by 4.3%. Now, Google also includes
site speed in it’s ranking algorithm. So, it becomes necessary to maintain the
speed.
Let’s know how to fix
it:
1. A good host is
necessary
A shared host comes
with incredibly slow site speed and during high traffic period, it frequent
downtime.
The stress of your
site going down after getting a big feature is enough to create a few early
gray hairs: don’t be a victim, invest in proper hosting.
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Last but not least,
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Take it from someone who’s learned that the hard way. The staff is friendly,
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2. Start with a
solid theme
The lightweight
Twenty Fifteen framework is quite speedy. Also, Thesis Theme Framework is the
fastest loading premium framework which surpasses the basic WordPress themes by
being far easier to customize. It doesn't slow the speed down.
3. Use an
effective caching plugin
Some WordPress
plugins fall under the caching category by improving page loads time. W3 Total
Cache is one if the best caching plugin which is extremely easy to install and
use.
4. Use a content
delivery network (CDN)
With a CDN or content
delivery network, visitors can download all your static files of your site
(CSS, Javascript, and images etc) as fast as possible. One of the best CDN is
Max CDN Content Delivery Network. Also, Free-CDN works the same.
5. Optimize images
Smush.it of Yahoo can
reduce the file size of an image without compromising with its quality. Also, a
free plugin called WP-SmushIt is available to optimize images automatically.
6. Optimize your
homepage to load quickly
With clean and
focused home page, you can not only keep the customer stick to the page but
also load the page quickly. To quickly load the home page, include these things:
# Only show excerpts,
not full posts.
# Reduce the number
of posts on the page
# Try to remove
unnecessary sharing widgets from the home page.
# Try to remove
inactive plugins and widgets.
7. Optimize your
WordPress database
With WP-Optimize
plugin or WP-DB Manager plugin, you can optimize your database (spam, post
revisions, drafts, tables, etc.) and reduce their overhead.
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