How to Increase Loading Speed in WordPress

How to Increase Loading Speed in WordPress - Although WordPress is one of the most comprehensive and easy-to-use CMS as a blogging platform than any other, WordPress is not a solution for you who need speed in terms of performance. This is probably due to the fact that WordPress is built with more consideration of usability than performance or speed.

Speed and performance is king when we talk about SEO and to embrace users. The current user will leave the website when he waits too long when opening a website, at least they will leave if within 3 seconds the website has not been open yet. In addition to the issue of SEO is also very important, Google includes the speed of the website as one of the criteria of assessment and ranking of the website.

You can search for "page load time impact" on Google, then you will find a lot of reasons why a website should be fast. But you should not read everything because later you can be confused, simply focus on how to speed up your own blog is enough. In this case a blog created using WordPress.

How to Increase Loading Speed in WordPress

Lots of plugins that can help us to speed up website loading, all can use for free.

1. Media Optimization

Unoptimized images are one of the biggest causes and the longest loading time of a website, while also spending website bandwidth. The solution to this problem is quite simple by installing the plugin and running a bulk optimization on all the existing images and thumbnails.

There are some WordPress plugins that you can use for this, one of them is "Imagfy". This plugin requires you to register and generate an API Key, but the free package only processes images as much as 50Mb per month. This is actually enough for a small-to-medium class website like jurnalweb.com. Another quite popular plugin for this problem is "WP SmushIt".

2. Lazy Load Image

In addition to optimizing the image (size), you should not load the image before they are really needed. So when opening the website page, display the image on the main screen only, the image below, the new will appear when the scroll do not load first at the beginning, but only after the user scroll the image loaded.

Lazy Load plugin allows you to load images only when the user scrolls until the image is in position. This saves the initial load time and bandwidth of users who do not scroll.

3. Minify & Merge Javascript & CSS

One of the most important factors in terms of website performance is the number of requests made to the server as well as the size of the source files that are loaded by the browser. One solution to improve this is to merge all Javascript (JS) files and all CSS files minimize their size.

For example when your previous website needed 5 different JS files, and 3 CSS files, then merge all the JS files, then combine the CSS files, so the files loaded only 2 are 1 JS combined files, and 1 combined CSS file. This will reduce the demand to the server, thus saving load time.

Plugins like Fast Velocity Minify and WP Super Minify can do just that. Also move the Javascript file to the end of the page by placing it immediately before the [/ body] tag, this will reduce the loading time of the website.

4. Analyze your WordPress Plugin.

Probably good when we know that WordPress has a large collection of plugins available, but it does make us stuck to install various plugins that are not actually made for optimization, this will certainly degrade the performance of the website. P3 Profiler helps you to analyze how much time these plugins take when opening web pages.

5. Database Optimization

WP Optimize helps to keep the database clean and optimized without having to work too complicated and does not require skill and knowledge about MySQL. Just one click will clear unnecessary data (such as post revisions, old drafts, spam comments, etc.), besides this plugin also performs like your MySQL table defrafman to make your databases more streamlined so it is not heavy when queryed.

6. Cache Website Content

Server and browser caching are very important for website performance, especially if the content is mostly static (unchanged). For server caching, you can use WP Super Cache for easy usage and configuration. W3 Total Cache is also very popular in this regard.

In addition to the cache server, it is also important to increase the browser cache. Far Future Expiry Header is a simple and efficient plugin that automatically adds header expires to files and images with little settings on .httaccess on your website.

7. Accelerate PHP with OPCache

OPCache is basically a cache for your PHP code. It will make your code run faster by storing the compiled code in cache as well, rather than changing the file or clearing the cache, it will not require any further compilation on subsequent execution. To install you just need to follow this tutorial and then check your installation status using OPCache Status script.

8. Use CloudFlare

Last but not least, use Cloudflare. The services they provide are free for personal sites (starting at $ 20 / month for professional users) and include:

• DDoS Protection
• Global CDN
• Shared SSL
• Files Cache & Minification
• Analytics
• Firewall
• Mobile Subdomain Redirect
• as well as other features ...

9. Use Good Hosting

To support all the tools and plugins above required good quality hosting as well. You will not be able to speed up website loading if still using a slow hosting, often down, and so forth. It is recommended to use VPS for your website, rather than having to jostle with other website in a Shared Hosting.

Those are some ways you can apply to your WordPress website, the use of the plugin is quite easy to do, in a few hours you will finish doing everything, and speed up your WordPress website. Hopefully useful and memorable for his visit.

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