Why Speed is Important for Your WordPress Site?
WordPress Speed Optimization at Affordable Prices improve user experience, increase your page views, and help with your WordPress SEO.
Studies show that the average human attention span has dropped from 12 seconds to 7 seconds. That means you have very little server response time to show users your content and convince them to stay on your website.
A lazy load means users will potentially leave your website before it even loads. On top of that, Google and other search engines have already started penalizing slower websites by pushing them down in the search results which means lower traffic for slow websites. They’ve indicated that site speed will play an even bigger role in their SEO and organic algorithm moving forward in the future.
WordPress speed optimization services at Affordable Prices are designed to improve the performance of your WordPress website. A WordPress speed optimization service typically include a variety of techniques and best practices to help speed up your site, such as optimizing images, minifying code, caching, and reducing the number of HTTP requests. The goal is to make your website load faster and provide a better user experience for your visitors.
Plain and simple, if you want more traffic, subscribers, and revenue from your website or blog posts, then you must make your WordPress website fast!
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The primary causes for a slow WordPress website are:
Web Hosting – When your web hosting server is not properly configured it can hurt your website speed.
WordPress Configuration – If your WordPress site is not serving cached pages, then it will overload your server thus causing your website to be slow or crash entirely.
Page Size – Mainly images that aren’t optimized for the web.
Bad Plugins – If you’re using a poorly coded plugin, then it can significantly slow down your website.
How to Check Your WordPress Website Speed?
Often beginners think that their website is OK just because it doesn’t feel slow on their computer. That’s a big mistake.
Since you frequently visit your own website, modern browsers like Chrome store your website in the cache and automatically prefetch it as soon as you start typing an address. This makes your website load almost instantly.
However, a normal user who is visiting your website for the first time may not have the same experience. Actually, users in different geographical locations will have a completely different experience.
This is why we recommend that you test your website speed using a tool like PageSpeed Insights test. It is a free online tool that allows you to test your website’s speed.
After you run your website speed test, you might be wondering what’s a good website speed that you should aim for.
A good page load time is under 2 seconds.
However, the faster you can make it, the better it is. A few milliseconds of improvements here and there can add up to shaving off half or even a full second from your load time.
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How to improve the loading time of your website?
Choose a better web hosting provider
The major factor that influences the speed of a website is the hosting of your WordPress website. It seems like a good idea to host your new website on a shared hosting provider that offers “unlimited” bandwidth, space, emails, domains, and more. However, the point that we usually miss out on regarding this offer is that shared hosting environments fail to deliver good loading times on peak traffic hours.
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. But remember this: if they have too many elements and higher file sizes, then they will definitely cause your webserver to lazy loading.
Reduce image sizes
Images are the major contributors to the size of a given webpage. The trick is to reduce the image size without compromising on the quality.
Software version & performance
Making sure you are using the latest software is also important, as software upgrades often fix bugs and enhance performance. Making sure you’re running the latest version of the software is very important.
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Tips on how to make your website super fast
- -Improve your hosting plan
- -Understand HTTP requests
- -Make image files internet-friendly
- -Avoid Unused Plugins and Static Files
- -Cut down on external scripts
- -Optimize JS and CSS files
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