Portent ran a study that looked at just over 94 million pages across 10 e-commerce site. They found a website conversions dropped by an average of 4.42% with each additional second of load time between zero and five seconds. That’s Huge!!!

You can lose money by just having poor load time. Hey Everyone I am Subhajit Dutta and today I am going to break down How to Speed Up Your WordPress Website In Just 5 Steps.

Question for you! How long does your website takes to load? If you don’t know! Put it into neilpatel.com/seo-analyzer . put in your URL and it will show you how long your website takes to load. I am going to be focused one speed, but if you want to optimise your WordPress website for SEO, I have another article that walks you through the perfect SEO setup for WordPress with the 8 best plugins that you can use. The first thing you want to do is check your WordPress site speed, that is pretty much easy. You can do UberSuggest to do that, right? You just go to the neilpatel.com/seo-analyzer URL. Go to that put in your URL and it will tell you how long your webpage takes load and it even tells you what to do to fix it.

Tip 1

You should aim for load time of less than three seconds. Here is some things that will slow down your WordPress Site. Web hosting, when your web hosting server is not probably configured, it can hurt your website. You want to make sure your web hosting is also fast. If your WordPress Configuration is not serving cast pages, that means a page has to load up all over again even as the same page a hundred other people viewed earlier that day, it can slow down your website or make your website crash entirely. Usually not with a hundred visitors but if it was a million, definitely going to increase some issues. Page Size mainly images that are not optimized for the web. The bigger the images, the longer they take load. You can compress the image, I am not talking the size and shrink it down. Because bigger images tend to do well and people like bigger images, but I am talking about the file sizes, compress that down while maintaining the quality. Bad Plugins if you are using poorly coded plugins then you are going to see a slowdown in your site especially if you have one too many plugins. I see some people’s WordPresses and I log in and I am like, HOLY CRAP!! This is like NASCAR literally!! They have so many plugins. It can fill a NASCARor Formula one car with them and people was like WOW!! That’s one too many plugins. It is, because a lot of them do the same thing over and over again. Another thing to look at is External Scripts. How many of you have external script on your WordPress Site? Leave a Comment below with the scripts you have. I will give you one, you probably use Google Analytics, but leave a comment below with the rest scripts you use. You probably don’t need more than a handful.

Tip 2

The second thing that you will want to do is install some kind of cache plugin, we talked about this a little bit earlier, but if you don’t use caching, every time someone goes to your website WordPress needs to then generate that page dynamically all over again. Don’t do that to our server, be kind and nice to your server. When you start getting lots of website visitors, it will save time, it won’t overload your servers as much and people have a much better experience. That means your WordPress system won’t need to work as heavily. This can make your website load anywhere from two to five time faster. That’s a lot!! And if you want a free plugin that does pretty well use WP Super Cache even I use this plugin for my website sdiskills.com . The third thing you need to do is optimise your images.

Tip 3

Images and Video content are really very heavy, especially on mobile devices. Think about it, just you have a 5G phone does not mean you have 5G reception, So compress them. The fourth thing and it is almost mandatory is use a CDN.

Tip 4

A CDN is a Content Delivery Network, just think about the google.com it is hosted in the United States but did you know that if you pull up Google from India, it actually gets pulled up from a site that is in India or a server more so that is in India. That is a CDN, that is a Content Delivery Network. It is taking Google files from Google Site even though they are hosted in United States and putting them in servers all over the world. That way  if you are coming from India, Brazil, Italy or France it is pinging the closest server to pull up that data. And you can use tools like CloudFlare for this and a lot of the hots that you use also offer CDNs. And the last one is for is lazy loading.

Tip 5

Think about this, if you have long content, let’s say 5,000 or 10,000 words, you don’t want to have to load the whole page before someone can read the content. You want to load section by section as quick as possible so people can start reading it as they are reading, more information gets loaded up. And that is the cool part of lazy loading.

Conclusion

Here I have talked about the 5 steps to speed up your WordPress webisite. Just follow the steps mentioned in this article and boost your speed for free. If you need help speeding up your site, optimizing for SEO Check out my Ad Agency NSPV Mega Mart! If you have any question, concern, comments leave a comment below I am here to help you. If you enjoy this article like it, share it, tell people about it.

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