April 14

How to Speed Up Your WordPress Website

When it comes to competition sites, the important role, played by loading pages and the speed with which users open sites. Slow site discourages users and reduces the position of the project, a total issuance. In this practical guide, we look at how a few steps to speed up your site and make the pages load faster. Here are few tips that you and we can use to speed up your WordPress themes.

1. Use Pingdom to test the current speed

At first, you need to measure the size of your webpage and its loading speed. Great help in solving this problem will be the tools of the site Pingdom.com. We recommend Pingdom Website Speed Test to check how fast loading of specific pages is.

2. Turn the compression with gZip

Most our WordPress themes must have the maximum compression of files that can be compressed using tools archiving. Your webpage and site elements will be loaded much faster. Methods include archiving differ depending on what engine settings and your server uses the site now. For Apache, for example, you can use mod_deflate.

If you use Litespeed, it is necessary to enable compression to activate the corresponding option in the control panel site. It is also available direct integration of HTTP-compression servers in Windows. Such option is very useful for WordPress themes’ faster loading.

3. Turn on caching for static content

At the time of booting your WordPress site, there are many hidden processes. In particular, the run PHP-functions and queries lead to MySQL-database. Using plugin caching will not only make the site load faster, but also reduce the load on the server, memory and processor. There are some great plugins for caching, but I would like to recommend separately W3 Total Cache. After installing it, you can enable caching tab Performance → General Settings.

4. Reduce and upgrade CSS and JavaScript files

Cleaning of “garbage” code CSS and JavaScript files to make them smaller and allow them to load and operate much faster. Smaller size and lower amount of files, in turn, leads to a reduced number of page requests. These factors are important to speed up page load the whole site. You can reduce the size of style sheets manually using online “minimize” for CSS, and JavaScript, and you can also delegate this task to a special plug. There is an option in the plugin mentioned above: W3 Total Cache. But do not forget to check the performance site after such minimization. The main thing - do not break when this optimization scripts and files.

5. Using a CDN – a content delivery network

The introduction of CDN in premium WordPress themes can significantly speed up your web resource, even if you do not immediately notice it. When using the usual host all the files stored on the server and one to the same server are all requests, so that foreign users the time between making a request, its execution and downloading content to your local PC can significantly stretch. To avoid long delays, it is recommended to use a system of distributed content delivery.

CDN can distribute your files in WordPress themes between different data centers around the world. Then the content is taken to load a user's computer by the server closest to him now. There are various services and distributed content delivery system, e.g. MaxCDN. If you use all these methods or let us improve your website’s speed, you will get a faster loading and quicker Internet project that will attract many people who value their time.