10 Ultimate Ways To Speed Up Your WordPress Website Performance

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ULTIMATE WAYS TO SPEED UP YOUR WORDPRESS WEBSITE PERFORMANCE

ABOUT WEBSITE How to increase the WordPress Website Speed is the trending topic for sure. Fortunately, there are several techniques one can adopt to get the desired work done.

A fast-loading website with the best user experience increases your page views and also helps WordPress SEO. In this blog, we shall learn about 10+ ultimate ways to speed up your WordPress Website Performance.

Heads up: We are not talking about using X plugin to install or Y Software to deploy in your WordPress website for improved website performance and optimization. We shall cover the most important aspects to be taken care of that helps in managing the WordPress website speed.

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KEEP YOUR WORDPRESS WEBSITE UPDATED Since WordPress is an open-source project, it is maintained and updated all the time. So, should you!

Each update comes with a set of new and modern features besides fixing bugs and issues in the website.

Also, keep an eye on the WordPress theme and plugins that too have their regular updates.

As a website owner, it is your responsibility to keep the website up to date with all the latest versions- whether it is WordPress, plugins, themes, or others. Doing so brings an improvement in the speed and performance of the website.

OPTIMIZE BACKGROUND PROCESSES Background Processes are those scheduled tasks that run in the background of the WordPress site. Some of the examples of background tasks running on a WordPress site are: WordPress Backup plugin tasks WordPress cron jobs for checking updates WordPress cron jobs for publishing scheduled posts Search engines and crawlers trying to fetch website content.

USE EXCERPTS ON HOMEPAGE AND ARCHIVES In default manner, WordPress shows the entire article content on the homepage

and

archives.

This

means

that

categories,

tags,

homepage, and other archive pages will load slower.

The second reason that makes showcasing excerpts better is that users do not feel the need to visit the article. This also reduces the page views and the time spent on your website or a specific webpage.

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SPLIT COMMENTS INTO PAGES Have lots of comments on your blogs? That’s great! It is a greater indicator of an engaged audience. However, the downside is that it increases the loading of the comments and can increase your website speed.

USE A CDN Most WordPress users know that different geographical locations result in different speed loading times of the website.

Why? It is because the location of the web hosting servers has an impact on the speed of the website. For instance, if your web hosting servers are from the United States, then the user visiting from the United States will have a faster experience compared to the ones visiting the same website from India.

DO NOT UPLOAD AUDIO/VIDEO FILES DIRECTLY TO WORDPRESS Although you can upload your Audio/ Video Files directly to your WordPress website, you should not do that! This will cost you bandwidth; moreover, you may also end up being charged higher fees from your web hosting company or have a shut down of the site altogether even when you took up an unlimited bandwidth plan.

Instead, use audio/ video hosting services like Vimeo, Daily Motion, SoundCloud, YouTube, and others. Let them take care of the hard work and also get bandwidth for your website’s audio and video files.

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SPLIT COMMENTS INTO PAGES Have lots of comments on your blogs? That’s great! It is a greater indicator of an engaged audience. However, the downside is that it increases the loading of the comments and can increase your website speed.

USE AN OPTIMIZED THEME FOR SPEED When you select the WordPress theme to design your website, you need to make sure that it is optimized.

Some of the beautiful and appealing themes might have poor coding and end up being heavy on your WordPress website.

USE FASTER PLUGINS Poorly coded WordPress plugins bring too much load to the WordPress site. If you are confused about the best WordPress plugins to choose, here is a quick list: WPForms All in One SEO Monster Insights Shared Counts SeedProd

REDUCE EXTERNAL HTTP REQUESTS Many WordPress themes and plugins end up loading a bunch of files from other websites. These include stylesheets, images, and scripts from external sources like Analytics Services, Facebook, Google, and others.

It is alright to use some of them, but you need to optimize them so that the files load as quickly as possible. This will help in increasing the speed of performance of the WordPress website.

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