How To Make Your WordPress Blog Load Faster (in Just a Few Minutes)

(Last Updated On: November 11, 2020)

We all know that WordPress is the biggest platform for making websites. Daily, hundreds of businesses are coming on the internet to gain the popularity of their businesses by building a site online.

And it’s not only about businesses who create their website, but there are also bloggers, spreading their knowledge and are helping numerous people daily.

So, when it comes to the internet, everyone needs a site, and when it comes to the website, then WordPress is the platform which comes first in everyone’s mind.

But these days, everyone is talking about a very hot topic, and that is “How To Speed Up A WordPress Website”? So, let’s today check out the things we can do to speed up a WordPress site.

There are more ways too in which you can increase your website speed, but these are the most important ways to speed up your WordPress Website:

Choosing a Good Web Hosting Provider

Choosing a Good Web Hosting Provider is the most crucial step if you want to increase the speed of your website. If you’re using free hosting or a hosting plan which gets down every time, then you should have to avoid using hosting plans, and instantly migrate to some good hosting providers who provide 99.9% uptime.

Many web hosting providers are reliable and provide 99.9% uptime with excellent customer support. Hostkarle is one of those web hostings which provides most reliable customer support and 99.9% uptime guarantee. Moreover, with hostkarle hosting, you can also get lightspeed for faster website loading and many more features.

Here I’m sharing some pros of using Hostkarle hosting plans.

Advantages of Using HostKarle

• SSD Based Disk Space for Faster Performance.
• Free cPanel Based Control Panel.
• Unlimited Business Emails & Database.
• Free DDoS Protection & Free SSL
• Lightspeed Web Server.

And many more.

Optimizing Your Images

This is not a step; this is an essential habit which every blogger and webmaster should apply whenever working on images. There have been so many researches on images that how important are they for your content.

They give life to your content; you will get more visitors if your content has catchy and nice images. But, the problems with images is that they take a lot of space which makes your website slower and also replenishes your webs hosting space and bandwidth fast.

Although, there are many easy ways in which you can optimize your images fast without any reduction in its quality. There are many free online image optimizers available on the internet where you can easily upload your images and download it after the optimization.

If you want, you can also use the image CDN for real-time image optimizations and CDN. For this, I recommend ImageKit and BunnyCDN.

Choosing a Lightweight Theme

The theme makes the brand of your website. But having a weighty theme which containing heavy animations, sliders, high-resolution images as background and all those lavish stuff can increase the load time of your website drastically.

So, while choosing a theme, try to pick a simple, lightweight theme which is specially optimized for speed and use quality plugins with them. The themes which look very decorative and beautiful are generally coded poorly with very useless features.

I personally recommend using StudioPress & MyThemeShop themes for your wordpress websites. They provide lightweight theme with 100% clean coding.

Using a CDN (Content Delivery Networks)

If your hosting is situated in the United States, then the visitors who will come from the United States will get a faster loading time of your website than people who will be coming from Australia. Having a CDN will decrease the load time for all the visitors arriving on your site.

A CDN is a group of servers scattered all over the world. It saves all the static files of your website like JavaScript, CSS, images, etc. on their servers. So, after setting up a CDN for your site, any visitor who comes on your website will get the static files loaded from the closest CDN server of the visitor.

Setting up a CDN will take you only some minutes, but it is something worth going for. Some of the most popular CDNs are CloudFlare, MaxCDN, Amazon CloudFront, etc.

Using A Caching Plugin

Using a Caching Plugin on your website can increase its loading speed from 2x to 5x. The pages of WordPress are actually ‘dynamic‘; which means that every time a user visits your website, WordPress collects all the information, codes, pictures, etc., and combines them to make a page and then it showed to the visitors.

This process increases the load time of your website and sometimes even or become drastically slow when many visitors come at your site and once. To prevent this, you can use Caching Plugins.

Some of the most popular Caching Plugins are W3 Total Cache and WP Rocket. WP Rocket is the first Premium Caching Plugin launched in the market with a lot more features the free plugins.

Optimizing WordPress Database

Tuning your WordPress Database is also an essential step towards increasing your website speed. WordPress keeps a lot of unnecessary information, these can be helpful at some point, but after the work is done, it’s a useless trash.

For example, you are writing a post, by default WordPress keeps revisions of the post as the user might need it afterward. But after the article has been posted, the post revisions are of no need, that’s why they need to be deleted. And this is not only about post revisions.

Spam comments, deactivated plugins and other trash items are also unnecessary items, so they need to be deleted to speed up your WordPress website. WP-Optimize is a WordPress Plugin which will make your work easier by automatically removing post revisions, trash items, unused tags, and plugins.

Conclusion

These were just some essential ways of hundreds of ways of increasing the speed of your WordPress website. If you haven’t performed the above steps on your site then I would suggest you to immediately implement these Ways of Speeding Up your WordPress Website.

This is because speed is one of the most important factors of SEO. The more your website loading speed, the more you will rank higher in Google. It will also increase the user experience and will also decrease the bandwidth usage of your hosting.