7 Ways to Speed up the WordPress Website

Why to increase speed of a website?

Some reasons which let us the importance of speed in website

1.      Google rank websites on top which has fast-loading time than the slow-loading at last. So, if you want to increase rank of a website in the SERPs you should improve speed your website.

2.      When it comes to an eCommerce website online buyer are the most important assets and they want the page to load within a second. If you are running an e-commerce website on WordPress then you have to make you website page load faster by this your business can be more profitable.

3.      Research shows that slow loading speed of a website leads to an instant drop in visitors. Customers slowly stop using your website because of a poor experience. 

Ways to speed up the WordPress website are:-

1.      Choosing a Good web hosting provider –

Web hosting of your WordPress website is the major factor that influences the speed of a website. It might seem like a good web hosting to host your new website that provide unlimited bandwidth, space, emails, domains and much more. Almost every new website owner chooses the cheapest web hosting service. As this is enough for the beginning of new website but you need to upgrade as you start increasing in traffic.

When looking at best hosting there are three different options:

·         Shared hosting

·         VPS hosting

·         Dedicated server

2.      Use a WordPress theme which are Light in Weight –

WordPress themes which has lot of dynamic elements, sliders, widgets, social icons and other elements which are very attractive to see. But we also remember that if themes have too many elements and higher page sizes then they will cause your web server to slow down. The best option is to use low size themes best option is to go for one of the default WordPress themes. You have to make sure that the theme you select for your website is optimized for speed and light in weight with the necessary elements.

Some popular WordPress theme provider

·         Blue host

·         theme forest‎

·         wordpress.org

3.      Optimize images for the website –

Research tells if you have not optimized your images then it could not help you to increase traffic in your website. Make your website more attractive it is very important to use high-quality images. It adds more time to load website if the number of images and the higher quality images are used. For this you have to optimize the images by this quality will become little less and the size will decrease. Adobe Photoshop and some plugins can used optimize the image. They will help you to resize, alignment, quality, and other changes in the picture.

Tips to know which image format to choose:

·         Use .JPEG If image has different colors,

·         Use PNG if it’s a simpler image is simple or you need a transparent image.

4.      Make use (CDN) on your website –

Most website have visitors from various locations of the world. You must be aware that the website speed varies as change in the location. It very important to make sure that your website speed remains same to users doesn’t matter where they are accessing it from. Use CDN (Content Delivery Network) it is a network which is made up of different servers all around the world. Each server will store “static” files and store it. It will make a copy of your website and stored in data centers in different locations around the world. By doing this when the website is accessed it will load from the closest data center and it loads up in same speed.

5.      Install Caching Plugin for WordPress –

WordPress website pages are “dynamic” in nature, which means those pages built on regular basis every time someone visits page on your website. Every time WordPress has to run through a process to find the searched information after that put it all together and then it displays it to website user. As there is lot of steps in this process it will slow down website speed when there are multiple people visiting at a single time.

For this we recommend every WordPress website owner to use a caching plugin. Caching will make your WordPress website from 1x to 6x faster. When the page loads first then caching plugin makes a copy of the page. Instead of going through the whole page load process every time.

6.      Update Your WordPress Site on Regular Basis –

It is very important duty of website owner to update WordPress website on regular basis. The themes and plugins should be updated to the latest versions. If this step will not be done it may make website slow and unavailable to the user having latest version of windows and mac processor as well as android. It will generate many files which are unnecessary and slow down the speed. By performing update, you can make sure that unwanted files and plugins are removed from the website. Update not means that it will offer new features but sometimes it will also fix security issues and bugs.

7.      Don’t Upload Audio and Video directly to WordPress website –

When you directly upload audio and video files to your WordPress site it will display in HTML5 player. But this is not a right way because hosting audio and videos will use your bandwidth. You will be charged a huge fee by your web hosting company and even they may dismiss your website even if you have plan of unlimited bandwidth. It may slow down your website overall speed.

Instead of that you can use hosting service of audio and video like YouTube, Daily Motion, Sound Cloud, etc. as they have their own bandwidth.