Tips To Speed Up Your WordPress Site in Less Than 30 Minutes

Google loves super fast websites and if you are troubled due to slow speed, you have landed at the right place. There are some unheard but sure short ways to speed up your WordPress (WP) site in just 30 minutes. Before digging deep into the matter, you must know some basics. The very first thing to do is choose a good and reliable hosting provider. Choose your website theme and Content Delivery Network (CDN) carefully to get better results. CDN hosts the website files over a large network of servers all over the world. If your CDN is close to your geographical location, it means your website will take less time to load and thus improve the speed amazingly.

However, apart from these things, let’s have a look at some issues and fix them to make your site Google friendly!

• Monitor plugins closely: Someplugins in your WP website can slow down the speed of your site. You can use P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler) to identify the plugins that are slowing down your site.
  
• Compress Images: Images consume a lot of bandwidth and should be compressed. You can use WP Smush. it in order to reduce the size of all images on your website. It never affects quality of the images and can really improve the site speed at the same time.
  
• Clean Up Database: WordPress automatically saves everything and this may leave your website filled with so many pingbacks, post revisions, unapproved comments, trackbacks etc. WP even auto-saves trashed items as well. You can utilize WP-Optimize, which is a great plug-in to keep your database fully clean and thus makes it more efficient.
  
• Reduce JavaScript & CSS File Sizes: There is a plug-in calledBetter WordPress Minify which works by combining both JavaScript and CSS files into one folder, reducing the number of requests the browser makes. It is an awesome plug-in as compared to many with the same feature.
  
• Manage Browser Caching: There are a few plugins available to manage browser caching but WP Super Cache is the best one.

 Apart from plugins, there are a few other ways toboost the speed of your WP site.Have a look!

• Turn Off Trackbacks & Pingbacks: Trackbacks and Pingbacks are techniques utilized by WP to send notification to other bloggers or blogs if you post any link to them. It may affect the site speed and it is recommended to turn this feature off. You can do this via Settings-->Discussion-->Turn off Trackbacks & Pingbacks.
  
• Include Image Dimensions & Character Sets: The browser has to work hard in figuring or laying out the content around your site images. It may therefore take a long time to load the page, but including the image dimensions can help the browser in going through this step with ease. It eventually results in better site or page loading time. In the head section of website, you can easily add character set for the same.
  
• Move CSS Files At Top and JavaScript To Bottom: Advanced website developers always recommend using CSS at the top of page and JavaScript at the bottom. It is mainly because browsers never render pages before rendering CSS files. On the other hand, by moving JavaScript files to the bottom enables the browser to analyze only after the page is fully loaded. It is a simple and logical technique to improve the site speed drastically. However, it may cause issues in some websites that are largely relying on JavaScript.An expert developer can easily fix this snug!
  
• Replace PHP and Use Static HTML If Possible: Calling the information via PHP consume resources and may increase the site loading time. It is in fact better to replace it with static HTML as the information can be called instantly.
  
• Use Keep-Alive: By enabling the Keep-Alive option, you can easily download huge number of files from the server without repeatedly asking for permission which eventually sales a lot of bandwidth. In order to enable the Keep-Alive option, you need to paste the code “Header set Connection keep-alive” into the .htaccess file.

With the growing number of websites, site speed will have a huge impact on your website traffic and sales. This means to stay in the competition, you need to fix the website speed before it’s too late. There are many web development elements that play vital roles in improving the performance of a website. If you are not sure, it is better to seek out the assistance of expert developers on freelancer & Upwork.