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How to Speed Up Wordpress Website is very important in
wordpress website designing that the paging loading does not consume time. If the page loading consumes more than three seconds the visitors will visit another website. And there are chances of losing visitors.
Page speed is also very important factor for SEO for your page ranking. And now
Google also considers site speed according to their algorithm in ranking. So in Wordpress, page loading speed is very important factor.
So how to test your website speed
- You can use Yahoo! YSlow and Google Page Speed Firefox plugins to check the website performance and the website
- Check the speed on GTMetrix
- Also on Webpage Test
- And PageSpeed Tools
Factors important to speed up your page
Choose a Good Host for the website
Select the proper hosting server. Initially Shared Hosting is better but as the traffic increases it better to change to Virtual Private Hosting, Dedicated Hosting which are better for heavy traffic, if the Hosting is not properly selected there chances making the website speed slow. Dedicated Hosting is the best suitable for millions of daily visitors.
Use the proper solid framework / theme
Select the proper theme or the framework necessary for your
website. You can use try using light weight frameworks like
Thesis Framework or
Genesis Framework for better response. Using frameworks like
Bootstrap or
Foundation is also better.
Use the best Caching Plugin
Caching is an other important factor for speeding up your page speed. Here the posts and pages are cached and stored as static / HTML pages, used by the visitor and the page loading becomes faster.WP Rocket is the best premium caching plugin and W3 Total Cache plugin or WP Fatest Cache are other free plugins I would recommend for your
plugin for your caching.
Use Content Delivery Network (CDN)
In CDN the
website is kept on many servers at different locations. Visitors can be from different locations of the world. So when a request is made the information is taken from the nearest location, if not avaiable then from another. Which makes the page loading faster and task of loading is shared. Cloudflare and MaxCDN are very popular CDN Services.
Optimizing your images
If all the images are stored on your website and kept at their original size it would consume time to upload the images. It is better to optimize, your images will be compressed to a smaller size, and then the page loading size will be less and consumes less time.
WP Smushit and
EWWW Image Optimizer will reduce image size and increase the page speed.
Optimizing the Database Tables in Wordpress
Database Table Optimizing helps in making space free and making the database run very smoothly and in order. If the database is not optimized there chances of the
website running slow. The best plugins for optimisation in Wordpress are
WP-Optimize and
WP-DB Manager
Minify HTML, CSS and Javascript
When testing on Google PageSpeed Insight Tools the minifying of HTML, CSS, Javascipts will be shown and it is very necessary to increasing the speed of page loading. If there are many plugins with many CSS, HTML and Javascript files it is very important to minify these files. Using plugins like
W3 Total Cache or
Autoptimize
Turn off Pingbacks and Trackbacks
Pingbacks and trackbacks components are used by WordPress whenever the blog receives a link. In in this process this reduce the page speed and it is better if keep it off. You can turn it off in
WP-Admin -> Settings -> Discussion. And just deselecting the “Allow link notifications from other blogs (pingbacks and trackbacks).” And the page speed will be increased.
Deactivate and uninstall unnessary plugins
Any plugins which are not used and required, deactivate and uninstall these plugins, so that the website will run faster and consume less bandwidth and increase the speed.
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