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The world is
getting more faster than ever and everyone is in hurry mode. Site loading time is
too important to satisfy your sites visitor. Studies show that speedy WordPress
site is needed for :
- High conversion rate
- Easy to use & access
- SEO (Speedy Site = Search Engine
Optimization friendly)
- Increase acceptance to the visitor
- How much time have to spent to visit
the site
Now, lets
start how you can make your WordPress site super-duper speedy :-
1. Make Update Everything Just Right Now!
Always try
to be updated with latest WordPress (CMS = Content Management System) features. Complete update for WordPress
installation, plugins, themes. An updated theme improve site visual look and not
more than it. After completing a successful update of WordPress Installation
file, theme, plugins the site performance, functionality, stability will
improve highly.
Note :
Before updating you should need to backup your total WordPress site. If there
appear any problem at the time of updating so that can turn at the previous
format.
2. Try To Use Bloated Free Theme
Many times a
WordPress site loads slowly because of theme. May be there lots of graphics,
massive code and inefficient functions. So that’s why try to choose a simple
theme. Now-a-days there are so many heavy bloated WordPress theme available in
the market such as StumbleUpon is one of them. A theme may have portfolio
functionality, but what happen if developers stop providing life time support
and update? What will happen with your portfolio? Just keep in mind that :-
A theme can
display and style to present your content and a plugin should can be used for
adding functionality.
There are
many premium WordPress themes are available at ThemeForest and Mojo Themes,
Everyone should not go for theme review guideline for using free premium
WordPress theme rather than WordPress default free themes. If you want
to add
extra features and style at WordPress default theme, you can do that
easily by
using plugin and customizing CSS.
3. Usage Of Limited Plugin
At first
decide which plugin you should need to use and always try to make them updated.
Secondly remove
(delete) the plugins which you don’t want to use.
Note :
Always delete unnecessary plugins which you don’t want to use (due to badly
coded and deactivated ones). That may be a cause for security threat.
4. Usage Of Cache Plugin
May be you
have heard this before while you have passed away by reading Speed up WordPress using other ways. If you notice to find out what’s are working and what’s not
then you will realize the activities of cache plugin. Two most downloaded
WordPress cache plugins as follows :-
Don’t needed
to enable every option from plugin settings, Just enable most basic such as :
page cache, browser cache, magnify (May cause the site to look little peculiar)
or try to enabling CDN option.
5. Use Optimized Images
Images can
slow down a website drastically, like as uncompressed and UN-optimized. There
are some ways to keep away from it :-
1 Make optimize images before uploading
and crop them at the correct resolution.
You can install a plugin named WpSmush.it, which compressed images and deleted all meta tags easily.
6. Use Only Text Advertisements
There are so many ways to give a life to your online
business, Advertisements is the best among them. It will add extra fuels to
your online business cycle. The advertisements can be text, image of
java-script based which are hosted your sites own server or somewhere else.Try to remove slow loading advertisements with text or link
add, if use images try to host them at yourself.
7. Switch (If Needed) Hosting Company
Before purchasing a hosting plan you should need to make a
little bit research on different hosting companies. Collect hosting
company’s support e-mail address from their website database and send e-mail to
each hosting company to know response time, customer support before fixing a
hosting company. You can read also for more further performance of top 7 WordPress hosting companies. Check your hosting company uses Google’s
mod_pagespeed then select it and activate it. Definitely it will configure your
server so fast.
Special Note : There can be appeared a question in your mind
to check how much increase your WordPress site speed after doing these speed
optimization tasks. You can take help online tools such Pingdom and
Webpagetest.
WordPress speed directly influences to increase site
authority and predict about your online business. Do you have found other ways
to increase your WordPress site speed?
