A fast web page It is essential for the SEO and usability, at the same time known as user experience. In this tutorial of CourseWpress.com you will learn how to make your WordPress website faster.
It hardly takes a user or Internet user a fraction of a second select whether you will browse our site or go fast, never to return.
And there are many factors that make a website, blog, ecommerce, are navigable:
- The design: is your website attractive, pleasant, Eye Candy?
- The contents:Do you offer quality content that adds value to the visitor?
- The overall user experience: does the layout and contents as a whole they facilitate navigability?
- And the loading speed: How fast is your website?
You may have a design great and life-changing content, but it's fair to add that if the last factor: the loading speed it's wrong. It will be useless to have the most handsome design and the better information of the world.
On the web the maximum is: be quick or die.
So what do we have to do? adapt. Be very fast.
To do this, we must first know all the:
Factors that influence the speed of your WordPress website
In the loading speed of a website are influenced by various factors and items. And if any of them fails, our website will move with problems, in other words it will be very slow.
Hosting:
Fundamental. The host they are the foundation of your site. And you better have a very good one or your site will sink in the last results of the SERPS. We teach you what you should know about best accommodations. You have no excuse.
Theme or template:
With so much choice and so much offer, it is inconceivable how many webmasters claim that their website WordPress be faster with outdated themes. Get a good theme that, as well as having a good aesthetic, has a clean code. Be responsive and SEO optimized. On this tutorial you can and find more information about WordPress themes.
Plugins:
With the plugins some have a love / hate relationship. They need them but at a point they have so many that they prevent their WordPress page faster. That is why keep only what is necessary. Y remove once and for all plugins that you don't use.
· Images:
Images are an important element if we intend to provide quality content. But if you want your WordPress website to be faster, the images must be optimized.
That is why we prepared this guide based on dropbox like a alternative to image hosting.
Once you have a fast host, a lightweight theme and have optimized the use of plugins and images you may have good loading times. Although they can always be improved.
How to make a WordPress website faster
Before optimizing the speed of our website, we must know for sure what the loading times that we currently have. For this we can use:
- Pingdom
- GTMetrix
- Y Google PageSpeed Insights
Once your page has been verified with these tools and the results recorded, we can get to work. It's time to make your WordPress website faster.
1. Cache your website
We will never tire of repeating it to you. Activate the cache on your blog will speed up loading times and make your website WordPress be faster. And although we usually recommend and work with cache plugins how W3 Total Cache and WP Super Cache now we change. We have tested WP Fastest Cache getting good results.
Install and activate WP Fastest Cache it's simple.
Once activated It's time to configure it.
Configure WP Fastest Cache
An optimal configuration of WP Fastest Cache in its free version it would be as shown in the image:
In the plugin we have activated the following options:
- Cache system / Cache System
- Preload: activating home, pages and post at the same time
- Logged-in Users
- New Post / New Post
- Gzip
- Browser Caching
We keep changes and voila.
We can still improve the speed and make our website WordPress be faster.
How?
With WP-Optimize
2. Optimize your website
Setting up WP-Optimize
WP-Optimize is one of our favorite plugins for optimization work, it is lightweight and effective.
In short, this plugin takes care of deleting the unnecessary data of our facility WordPress directly from the database.
That is why you must be careful with its installation and use.
Important fact: Before deleting any information from your database, it is recommended to create a back.
Each configuration can vary according to needs and cases. We usually use it as the image indicates:
With these two simple tips you can improve loading times and make your WordPress website faster.
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