3 easy ways to increase your wordpress website speed.
WordPress is an awesome platform. The only weakness it has its speed. WordPress websites becomes slow with time and it creates problems. It becomes a problem for your new and returning visitors .
Before going into some easy ways, let's know why speed matters.
When a visitor lands on your site for the first time, then you only have few seconds to create a first impression.
According to a report bt Microsoft Bing search, 2 second delay in page loading decreases user satisfaction by 3.8%.
If a site takes too long to load, most of the visitors will switch to another site.
How to speed up WordPress speed.
- A solid theme/framework
WordPress theme frameworks are intended to be used as a parent theme template with all the functionalities.
Twenty Fifteen theme is a very lightweight theme and is speedy. It is default WordPress theme with almost minimalistic elements.
Frameworks like thesis framework have an incredibly solid that won’t slow down with excess plugins or custom edits.
- Reliable Hosting
Often people choose for Unlimited option for hosting but later they have to pay the price. Upon high traffic such type of ‘Unlimited’ hosting face downtimes and performance issues.
If you have future plans with your website then opting a shared hosting would be a type of suicide for your website.
To prevent yourself from pulling your hairs, use a WordPress dedicated hosting. These hostings are specifically developed for WordPress websites. - Use Caching Plugin
WordPress plugins are obviously useful and one of them is caching plugin.
Caching plugin caches static part of the website like images and serves them from a caching server. Generally caching servers are fast in delivery and deliver content faster than site server.
W3 Total Cache is a recommend plugin to enable caching. Simply install and activate, and watch your page load faster.
These are 3 easy ways to increase your WordPress website speed.
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