{"id":3322,"date":"2016-05-26T11:57:51","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T11:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.heliossolutions.co\/blog\/?p=3322"},"modified":"2019-09-26T09:08:31","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T09:08:31","slug":"speed-wordpress-easy-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.heliossolutions.co\/blog\/speed-wordpress-easy-steps\/","title":{"rendered":"Speed Up Your WordPress with These Easy Steps"},"content":{"rendered":"

Speeding up your WordPress has become more than a necessity. For all its marvellous achievements, one thing that needs a little bit of tweaking is in its speed. You need to take the right precautions for using the right resources from WordPress<\/strong> or else you could end up with a sluggish website of your own.<\/p>\n

User would prefer speed any given day and if you fail to that, you might lose some of your viewers or subscribers for that. Speed is about making the first impression when a user lands on your website and second thing is to provide them with a content that makes them stay on your website.<\/p>\n

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A report given by Microsoft Bing<\/strong> search team stated that, Users satisfaction dropped to 3.8% if there was a delay of about 2 seconds longer, which in result increased lost revenue per user by 4.3% and clicks dropped to 4.3%.<\/p>\n

So lets us dig the insights of WordPress and speed it up with some simple tweaks.<\/p>\n

Choosing the Right Host :<\/h3>\n

To share a host in the beginning might be an appropriate choice for many of the users but that certainly comes with a cost. At the cost of insanely slow speed and frequent downtimes during heavy traffic period.<\/p>\n

If you have plan of making your site popular with all the incredible stuff you have in store to offer, might just be washed out by sharing Host. \u00a0You need to find yourself the right Host to increase the lifespan of your website.<\/span><\/p>\n

Finding the right Host will provide you with good Support and make your site even better.<\/p>\n

An effective Caching Plugin:<\/h3>\n

Server problems are always painful but by choosing the right Plugin could save up to 90% of the server problems that you face. What it does is, it offers static files to users by avoiding numerous calls back and forth from the database. You can always look for the best plugins out there for WordPress like, W3 Total Cache<\/strong> and W3 Super Cache<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Drop the Plugins & Widgets of No Use :<\/h3>\n

Keep what is important and drop that eats up your memory. WordPress plugins does make your applications<\/strong> powerful but keeping them all could be troublesome. Each and every plugin that exists on your website creates an extra process for your servers which will eventually result the page to load every time, so by removing them could help you speed up your site. Things like adding Analytic Codes by yourself and not let a plugin do that for you, could prove useful. Add things which can be added by you rather relying on Plugins because there are chances of these plugins to bloat unnecessary codes and will use their own required CSS<\/strong> and JavaScript<\/strong> which didn\u2019t even vouch for.<\/p>\n

Coding Your Templates :<\/h3>\n

The Designers and Developers who run their own sites, it is more advisable to hard code your own templates. \u00a0By keeping plain old HTML<\/strong> instead of WordPress PHP<\/strong> tags, could boost the speed of your site because you didn\u2019t allow WordPress to do the extra steps. Even WordPress Development Experts<\/strong><\/a> can provide you with the proper insights about coding.<\/p>\n

Optimizing The Homepage :<\/h3>\n

Homepage is where visitors will be landing the most and you must have a Homepage that loads quickly. You can tweak your homepage just by managing a few things like;<\/p>\n

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