you want to increase the speed and improve the performance of your WordPress site?
You definitely want to because this helps the user experience as a study was conducted
by “StrangeLoop” on big sites like Google and Amazon and it turns out that
Delaying website loading by one second reduces the conversion rate by 7%, reduces the number of
Page views decrease by 11%, and user satisfaction decreases by 16%.
You must also know that site speed is one of the main factors in your site’s ranking
In search engines. Search engines penalize slow sites
In the download speed and you put it in the results are delayed and this means that it will reduce the number
Traffic that comes to your site.
You can know the loading speed of your site or some pages on your site by:
This is a wonderful free tool “Pingdom” that gives you an analysis of your site’s performance from
Various places. It analyzes your site’s performance based on its loading speed
All pages of your site.
Just enter the address of your site or the page whose URL speed you want to know
Click on Start Test and find out the loading speed of your site ( it is better to be…
The download speed is less than 2 seconds) , and the lower the download speed, the better.
If you find that your site’s loading speed is high (10 seconds, for example), what is the reason?
What makes your site slow?
- Hosting your website : Do not rely on a company that provides you with bad servers, as this has an impact
It affects the speed of your site and slow loading of its pages.
- Configure WordPress : Increasing the cache memory on your pages increases the speed
Download, it is therefore necessary to delete the cache periodically.
- Page size : Make sure to format the images before uploading them to your site.
• Bad plugins : installing plugins programmed in an unprofessional and inappropriate manner
Bad code has a negative impact on your site and causes slow loading of its pages.
- External scripts : such as advertisements, template tools, etc., if relied upon
In an unprofessional manner, this is one of the reasons for the slowness.
Therefore, in this article, we will talk about some tips and ways to increase speed and performance
Make some improvements to your WordPress site and install some plugins.
1. Choose good hosting
The first thing to take care of before creating a website is to choose a good service provider
Hosting for you is the foundation on which you build your site. Otherwise, if you…
With great effort in the content you provide and internal and external improvements to your site
If it is on a bad service provider, this means that your effort is worthless!!
Choosing the type of host depends on the nature of your site’s work and its purpose.
And also the number of targeted visitors, so choose the appropriate hosting based on that
The goals you want to achieve from your website.
2. Use a good template
When you choose a WordPress theme for your website, it is necessary to pay attention to the template configuration
Before getting it, some of the paid templates have their own code written
In an unprofessional manner, which makes it a burden on your site and reduces its speed.
If you are using one of the free templates that WordPress offers you, don’t worry
This is because WordPress reviews them, but if you are using an external template
Paid, for example, so review this template and look at people’s evaluations of it and the strength of its performance.
Also beware of stolen templates that are uploaded on forums and blogs
Do you think he bought the template and uploaded it to you for free?
of course not ! You are the opposite, as most of these templates are mined with backlinks
Viruses and many harmful files for your site.
Try to use simple templates and plugins, and remember the Arabic saying
‘The beauty and clarity of the calligraphy’.
If you purchased your theme from popular theme stores like Themeforest ,
StudioPress , Themify , & Array Themes “Do not worry about this matter because management
These companies review and ensure the quality, speed, and good configuration of the template.
3. Install cache plugins
Dynamic WordPress pages. This means that WordPress is animated every time
By building virtual pages for each person who visits the page, WordPress
A complex process with several steps to come up with the required information and present it to the visitor, and this
It slows down your site when a large number of visitors visit it.
As you can see in this drawing, when a visitor browses one of the pages of your site that…
Designed with PHP, the server retrieves information from data memory
MySQL and your site’s PHP files, then puts this data into content
HTML to appear well to the visitor.
The very simple solution to speed up the steps of this complex process is:
Installing an add-on that clears cache will increase speed
Your site is 3 times more than normal.
There are many add-ons for this purpose, but what we advise you to do is install these
The free WP Super Cache plugin is very easy to activate and activate
This task is for you.
4. Create images used on your site
You may use a lot of images in writing your website content in order to present…
Better user experience because images are faster in communicating speech than writing
It is good and increases the visitor’s interest in reading the content by 80%, but there is a problem
If you do not format these images well, they will reduce the download speed
Your website pages.
So if you use one of the photos that you take with your camera or use
Professional photos are from sites that provide you with this service, so try to use them
A program (Photoshop) or a tool such as tinypng to reduce the image size.
The best extension recommended to use for websites is ‘PNG’ , this extension does not
It compresses images and maintains their quality without losing any of the image properties.
But if the image contains a lot of colors, its size will be
It is large and will take a long time to load on your site, so you need to compress it
And convert it to ‘JPEG’ .
5. Use the latest WordPress update
Because WordPress relies on open source software, it performs…
Updates periodically to offer more features and solve some security issues
Or technical, and also some of the plugins that you use in WordPress.
Always try to keep your site updated moment by moment from time to time
Available versions of WordPress, your website template, and plugins
If you use it, there may be some disadvantages in the old version.
6- Split comments on more than one page
Do you get a lot of comments on your blog articles?
This is great and indicates the success of your blog!
But this large number of comments reduces the speed of the page that contains it
The article and the solution are very easy: split the comments to appear on more than one page
Page through Settings » Discussion and teach
On the “Break comments into pages” option.
7- Use YouTube to upload videos
You can upload videos directly to your site and the video will play in a player
‘HTML5’ But this will cost you a lot from Bandwith and may weaken your site
Even if your plan includes unlimited Bandwith!
The best solution for placing videos on your blog is to rely on upload services
Videos such as (YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, etc.), these sites support
Upload thousands of videos without problems, and all you have to do is set the special ‘URL’
With the video on your page, the video will be downloaded and appear automatically on the page.
8- Reduce saved copies of content modifications
You may make many edits to one article, but…
WordPress stores these copies individually. And maybe
These copies are kept after publishing your article, so what is the benefit of keeping them?
You can control these copies by adding this small code in a file
wp-config.php
9- Reduce the loading time of your site’s home page
There are some improvements that we recommend you make to your website’s home page
To increase its loading speed because it is often the most important page on your site and the most pages
Used by visitors.
Here are some tips
- Show excerpts of your articles instead of displaying them in full.
- Reduce the number of articles that appear on the home page (preferably 5-7 articles appear)
- Delete unnecessary widgets from your home page
- Delete unnecessary widgets and add-ons.
And remember that distracting the user on the home page will not help you at all.
