How to speed up WordPress surely is a hot topic these days. Fortunately, there are numerous WordPress speed optimization techniques that you can employ to get the job done.
So, our intent here is to list every trick we know of that can make your WordPress site a lot faster.
Quick ways to speed up WordPress sites
- Choose a better web hosting provider
- Use a lightweight WordPress theme / framework
- Minify JS and CSS files
- Use a caching plugin
- Check your PHP
- Reduce image sizes with a plugin
- Upload images as WebP instead of JPEG or PNG
- Avoid uploading videos directly to WordPress
- Use a content delivery network (CDN)
- Enable GZIP compression
- Cleanup WordPress database
- Deactivate or uninstall plugins
- Keep external scripts to a minimum
- Disable pingbacks and trackbacks
- Use premium DNS
How to test the loading time of your website?
First things first, you need to analyze the current load time for your website. Keep in mind that this speed may differ from page to page, as it depends on various factors, namely:
- 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.
The homepage of a website is usually used as a benchmark to test the load time. In order to check the speed of a website, the following three tools are used extensively across the web:
- WebPageTest.org
- Tools.Pingdom.com
- PageSpeed Insights (this doesn’t really report the page loading time, but does highlight the elements that you can tweak to speed up WordPress)
Okay, it’s about time to start talking some business!
