From SEO aspect today speed of website is considered to be one of the most important factor. In this article we will discuss how we can improve the speed of a WordPress website.
So, let’s start and if you are not familiar with WordPress. Please do take the backup of website.
Check speed of your website at Gtmetrix and find the area of improvements. You can find the red colored recommendations.
Normally with the help of following given steps speed of website will be increased from 80sec to 8sec.
Image Size: If size of images is one of the reasons then you can install “WP Smush” to reduce the image size and improve performance. https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-smushit/
CSS and JavaScript: If Gtmetrix is indicating you that you must minify CSS and JavaScript then you can install “W3 Total Cache”. Total Cache helps in many other factors to improve the speed. Check here to read more.
Optimize Database: Speed of website can also be increased by optimizing database and it can be optimized by using the “wp optimize” plugin. After that just give a command to plugin to execute its functionality.
Further you must uninstall and remove all the unnecessary plugins, themes, pages, posts and Images that are of no use on live website.