If you want to speed up your WordPress website, we have some tips for you;
1) Select a good hosting provider
When it comes to web hosting, performance is very important. A fast web host can greatly increase the speed & responsiveness of your current website.
Assuming you are on a tight budget, we would recommend Bluehost. They have a near 100% uptime, free domain name registration, 7/24 customer service and a 30 day money back guarantee.
if you want the best hosting that money can buy, we would recommend WPEngine. Good support and the best WordPress hosting solution that creates blazing fast websites.
2) Use a caching plugin
The second effective way to speed up your website is installing a caching plugin.
WP Supercache is the most popular caching plugin, even recommended in the WordPress codex.
Another popular caching plugin is W3 Total Cache.
3) Browser Caching
Whenever a user is sent to your website for the first time through a link to your landing page, their browser will have to download all of the data located there. Through browser caching, that browser will store any previously downloaded resources in a local area, reducing the amount of data transferred across the network.
To enable browser caching, you should edit php.ini file. The php.ini file is the default configuration file for running applications that require PHP. It is used to control variables such as upload sizes, file timeouts, and resource limits (If you don’t know where it is, you should contact your hosting provider).
You can copy paste the following code to the bottom of your php.ini file to activate browser caching on your website. You should be very careful. If you delete any code in this file, you will get an error on your website.
## EXPIRES CACHING ## ExpiresActive On ExpiresByType image/jpg "access 1 year" ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access 1 year" ExpiresByType image/gif "access 1 year" ExpiresByType image/png "access 1 year" ExpiresByType text/css "access 1 month" ExpiresByType application/javascript "access 1 month" ExpiresByType text/javascript "access 1 month" ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash "access 1 month" ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access 1 year" ExpiresDefault "access 2 days" ## EXPIRES CACHING ##
4) Optimize Images
It could be helpful to reduce the weight of images, in order to use it on a website. The webpage will load faster, and it saves bandwidth. Here is some online free tools to optimize your images;
Optimizilla , Tinyjpg , Compressnow
5) Disable unnecessary plugins
Plugins are ways to extend and add to the functionality that already exists in WordPress. However, every plugin requires resources to be loaded every time a visitor opens your website. This means the more plugins and scripts you have installed, the slower your website will load…