How to Speed Up Your WordPress Site | The Journey
Channel: GoDaddy
Date: 2020-02-25

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⏰TIMESTAMPS⏰
00:33 – Determine the type of hosting you have
01:21 – How to test the speed of your website
03:36 – Use a lightweight WordPress theme
04:23 – Using plugins to speed up your website
07:49 – Clearing the cache on your website

When a person lands on your site for the first time, you only have a few seconds to capture their attention to convince them to hang around. If your site takes too long to load, most people are gone, lost before you even had a chance. Not only that, but Google now includes site speed in it’s ranking algorithm. That means that your site’s speed affects SEO, so if your site is slow, you’re now losing visitors from impatience and reduced rankings in search engines. Yikes.

Since providing people with more patience isn’t typically an option, you’re left with optimizing your website. Let’s get to work.

Choose a better web hosting provider
Shared hosting tends to deliver a poorer performance because you are sharing the same server space with countless other websites, and there is no telling what kind of resources others are using. Plus, you don’t know exactly how well the servers are optimized. The stress of your site going down after getting a big feature is enough to create a few early gray hairs. Don’t be a victim — invest in proper hosting.

Use a lightweight WordPress theme/framework
WordPress themes with a lot of dynamic elements, sliders, widgets, social icons, and many more shiny elements are immensely appealing to the eye. Remember, if they have too many elements and higher page sizes, then they will definitely cause your webserver to slow way down.

Reduce image sizes / Review unused images
Most of the space on your website is taken up by your images. The trick is to reduce the size of the images without compromising on the quality. Your options range from using plugins to automatically resize images or even doing it yourself manually.

Another frequently overlooked area is the growing collection of unused images in the Media Library. By removing unreferenced images from your site, you will speed up your own page load time every time you enter the media library section. 

Deactivate or uninstall plugins
Another quick cleanup step for your WordPress site is to remove the unused themes and plugins. 

If you are not currently using a plugin, whether it is activated or not, you need to deactivate and remove it from your WordPress installation. Stray, unused items in WordPress take up valuable system resources, increase your database size, and ultimately slow down your site. Worst of all, they can put you at risk for a serious security breach. 

Cleanup WordPress database
Check for broken links and fix them. Posts containing broken links send your site viewer into the muddy parts of your online yard. Deleting unwanted data from your database will keep its size to a minimum and also helps reduce the size of your backups. 

It is also necessary to delete spam comments, fake users and old drafts of your content and maybe even. All of this will reduce the size of your databases and web files, and thus speed up your website.

Keep this WordPress maintenance checklist handy. By installing the recommended plugins, running these tests, and updating WordPress regularly, you will greatly improve not only the speed but the security of your site.

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