I will share with you the most useful tips that help you to boost your WordPress website speed for a fast loading site that will get loved by search engines like Google to rank higher of any content of yours.

 As technology is really improving everyone don’t like slow loading website, they like the fast loading because it will save their time of waiting for the loading of your website. 

You know what? Nowadays people are like a fast load website to visit if your website slows loading to bring the content for the audience then they will exit from your website meaning you lost lots of traffic to your website when lost traffic then your website you will not makes more many as others or your competitor so that why speed of your site really matter for attract audience and give them good experience.

But don’t worry I will walking you throw the methods that you can speed up your WordPress website, increase views, and drive more organic search traffic from search engine.

Let’s dive right in… 

Why Speed Up Your WordPress Website?

There are so many reasons that you need to speed up your WordPress website and let’s get to know why we should optimize our website for speed…

• Speed up WordPress website – because it is the ranking factors that search engine use to rank a web page and it good to optimize our site for this factor if we want to improve our website search performance position on the SERP.
• Drive more traffic to a website and increase sales when you had ranked higher on the SERP position.
• A good user experience that will make people happy with the loading of your website.

How to Check Your Website Speed?

First thing you need to do analyze your current speed loading time by using the tools that will check all your page speed technical for you. But keep in mind that this speed may differ from page to page, it depends on various factors, like:

• the size of that particular page,
• how many requests it generates,
• whether it is cached or not,
• and lastly, what kind of content (static or dynamic) it hosts.

Here are tools that you can use to check yours…

• Tool.Pingdom.com
• GTMetrix
• Google PageInsight Developer

You can use these tools to check your website performance and speed loading, these tools will tell you what the score your website speed level is and where you can improve it.

How to Speed Up Your WordPress Website?

Okay, now let’s move to how to speed up your WordPress website with the most useful methods that will make your site improvement of the loading time.

1 Choosing the Best WordPress Hosting

The web hosting really impacts your website speed so make sure we need to choose the right hosting company that will improve our website performance and loading time of our website to the users and the search engine.

There are lots of web hosting companies out there, so it abet differ for you to pick the right one but don’t worry I will give you the recommendation web hosting that I used and give me a better result of my website performance and it also had so many bloggers are also recommended.

Here are some of the best WordPress Hosting Companies you use…

•  Siteground ( I am currently using) – I good for speed up your website performance.
• Kinsta
• Cloudways

But I highly recommend you to use Siteground because it is the best for both beginner blogger and pro but if you increase more traffic to your website you can switch to any of these three hosting platforms anytime you want to.

You can start with Siteground from $3.95 per month for Starter Plan plus $15.95 per year domain name if you don’t have a domain name yet and you able to spend $63.35 in total annually.

2 Use Lightweight WordPress Theme for Speed

When it comes to speed the second most important that impacts your website loading is WordPress theme when you pick the low-quality theme that developed not optimize for speed it also slow down your website.

You need to choose the best WordPress to if you seriously want to speed up your WordPress website and those themes need to be optimized for speed.

What type of WordPress theme that counts as a speed theme?

•  The theme that develops with speed optimized.
• The developer already minify the code such as CSS & JS files
• Responsive theme
• Mobile Friendly

There are lots of WordPress themes available on the marketing such as a free and paid version that you can pick to use on your website, but if you seriously want to speed up your WordPress website you need to use the premium theme because of the developer use all the features to make sure they theme load fast…

If you don’t know what theme that builds with speed I also have a suggestion about the WordPress that I been using for a while, those themes are really popular in the market.

Here are the best WordPress themes that have tons of recommendations…

•  Divi theme ( I am currently using on this website).
• Astra theme
• Generate Press

You need to have the best WordPress theme install on your website because it helps you boost your WordPress website speed load much faster.

3 Use Latest Version of WordPress

The WordPress organization always doing the hard to give a better user experience for the WordPress users by keeping develops the platform for better security and improving the WordPress system load fast, so make sure you need to keep your WordPress site up to date.

4 Use Cache Plugin

The page speed is so important for our website ranking so we need to use the plugin that will help our website load faster-called cache plugin. While using a cache plugin it will speed up your WordPress website and decrease your loading time (meaning it take a very short time to load).

What is Cache Plugin?

The cache plugin a plugin that will improve your website speed, its job is to do optimize your website for speed and give the users a good experience of viewing your website.

What the cache plugin does is, it first make request to the database when the user want to views content and then database give the page that user is looking so what the cache plugin did is it stores the content such image or text that database gives to user in its server to speed up the next time view, when user is coming once again in future.

Meaning that I make only one-time request to the database if the user not clearing their web browser cache, so it saves lots of time and speeds up your WordPress website.

There are lots of WordPress caching plugin that available on WordPress.org that you can download and install it to use on your website.

But if you host your website with some of the most popular hosting companies like Siteground there is the built-in cache plugin that you can use it called SG Optimizer this plugin is really amazing built-in caching plugin by Siteground if you have any built-in plugin I highly recommend you to use it.

Here are some of the most popular cache plugins…

• WP Rocket (Premium Version)
• WP Super Cache (Free & Paid)
• W3 Total Cache (Free & Paid)

If you looking for premium caching plugin WP Rocket is the best for you…

5 Minify CSS & Js files

Minify your CSS & Js files mean to reduce the size of the code to make it smaller,  it needs some techniques to do that but if you use the premium as I had mentioned above the developer has already done that for you. But don’t worry there are plugins that you can use to minify your code file available on WordPress.

If you use a built-in cache plugin by Siteground (SG Optimizer) it has features that help you minify your CSS & Js file super easy by just enable the feature on its.

Here how you can do with SG Optimizer to enable Minify files, go to Dashboard > SG Optimizer > Frontend Optimization.

6 Optimization Image for speed

While we create content we need to add some of the images to engage people and make it more detailed for tutor something in your content to get an in-depth explanation.

But when add an image inside our content it will make our web page load slower than without so we need to optimize the image for speed such reduce the size of image and more…

There are WordPress plugins that work to optimize your image automatically or you can it manually by your self, It really important to have the image optimization on your site to speed up your WordPress website and I will list them in the below section.

Here are some image optimization plugins…

•  Smush It
• Short Pixel
• Optimole

7 Enable GZIP Compression

Using the compression on our local computer is really save lots of disk space, but for the web, we use the GZIP Compression in goal to save more bandwidth to speed up the WordPress website.

If you using SG Optimize cache plugin this feature also available for you to turn on or this options which will help your website save more bandwidth, but if you don’t use SG Optimizer there is also a plugin that you can use for GZIP Compress is “Autoptimize“ which you can download and install on your website.

Here how to can do with SG Optimizer plugin…

Or if you want to manually do it your self you can add this code in your .htaccess file.

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript

8 Database Optimization

You can also optimize your website database to improve your website speed, You can use the plugin to optimize your database automatically without having technical skill your self by just install and active the most powerful plugin for database optimization in WordPress.

You can use the WP-Optimize plugin for the database optimization on your WordPress this plugin works really well on the database optimization that has tons of people are install and active this plugin on their WordPress website.

9 Use CDN (Content Delivery Network)

The people who visit your website belong to various locations in the world, and needless to say, the site-loading speed will differ if the visitors are located far away from where your site is hosted. So CDN can make the different location visitors of your website still get fast loading, there are multiple CDN provider companies that available on the internet that you can use.

You the two most popular CDN providers that many people are using it is Cloudflare and Stack Patch (Max CDN).

10 Split Long Post to Page

When you have a very form article on your website it is good to split it to the page because if we keep it as that long it will take a very long time to load all the data inside that article, so you can split it out the pagination that lets people read page by page.

11 Split Comments to Page

When your website grows a big audience then it will have tons of comments on your content that post, so it is better to split them into the pagination to speed up your WordPress website loading time and good for your website SEO.

12 Deactivate or Uninstall Plugin

Installing the plugin on your website is good for you to complete your desire for functionality requirement but it takes space of your storage to install those plugins then it can slow your website.

So make sure you need to install only the most desire your plugin that is really needed if there is not necessary you can deactivate and uninstall them.

Conclusion

Now you had learn all the ways to speed up your WordPress website, It time to action to improve your website performance and increase search visible position.

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