How to speed up your WordPress Website 5 Tweaks

By | January 13, 2016

How to speed up your WordPress Website with simple tweaks and increase rankings

Website design and it’s loading time is also consider as big ranking factor by google and other major search engines. So, in this article we will learn how you can easily speed up your wordpress website with simple tweaks. First let me tell you why major search engine like google bing and yahoo considering this as a ranking factor.

This is the modern age where no one has too much time to wait. On internet while searching people always want that the desire result will come just after one click. See if you site loading time is too high then believe me user will close your site and go for another one no meter if your site has high quality or targeted material. That’s why all blogger as well as webmaster spend time to increase loading speed as well as time of their sites or blogs in order to get full and good results.

If you are also looking for such tweaks and tricks to reduce loading time and increase site speed then you no need to search anymore because you are at right place. Here i will share my personal experience as well as some top blogger tweaks to reduce loading time of your site :) . you may also like to read How to delete uncategorized Category in WordPress.

How to speed up your WordPress Website (Tweaks) [howpk.com]

How to speed up your WordPress Website (Tweaks) [howpk.com]

How to check Site loading speed?

Before going to share tweaks and tips i would like to share some tools where you can check your site loading speed as well as performance.

  1. Pingdom Website Speed Checker.
  2. Google Page Speed Insights.
  3. GTmetrix.

Above are some major tools which is used by me as well as all top blogger. You can use it to check your site performance as well as loading time or grades. Learn How to add Facebook like box in WordPress, Blogger.

Simple Tweaks of how to Speed Up your wordpress website :

Here you go! These tips are not only supported for wordpress users. Anyhow 60% of websites are now based on wordpress CMS blogging platform. But you can use these tweaks on all type of sites or CMS :) .

1: Light and Responsive theme :

Yes Responsiveness as well as weight of theme meter a lot in a site loading time or speed. Always try to use high responsive multi screen view themes as well as light weight theme. Never go for nulled or free premium theme. There are millions of free and high responsive themes available online go and get any good one and them make some test or checks on it.

2: Use Cache plugins in WordPress :

 As we are using wordpress and WP provide us thousand of cashing plugins which help us to to cache our page, images as well as videos. Benefit of these plugin is when ever a user come to your site it will download a cache on user PC. On the next time your site will open like rocket :) . You may also use CDN for better caching. For mine W3 Super Cache, WP Super Cache are the best plugins. Try to use Autoptimize plugin with WP super cache and see the magic. If you want to get premium service then i strongly prefer you to go for WP rocket cache plugin. Don’t missed to read How to install WordPress on xampp windows 7, 8.

3: Use CDN or Cloud Hosting :

Yeah! Hosting meter a lot in site speed. If your host have good features like ram, processors etc then it will give you good response. always try to go for good and famous hosting providers like iPage, Blue Host etc.

4: Use image of Least size :

50% of website loading time depends on images and other media. First i suggest you, try to use as less as possible images in your article. But keep in mind now google also take images as a ranking or quality factor so at least one. you can use more the one image in an article but keep in mind their size must be less then 100kb. You may use image compressing plugins as well as software for this purpose. For best result i refer you to use Drop Box for image uploading.

Speak your mind :

So these are my tweaks or tips which i used in my own sites too in order to increase their loading speed. Keep in mind Loading time of a site is also consider in ranking. So, don’t forget to give some extra time on this issue. I hope you like my 5 tricks about how to speed up your wordpress website fast. Feel free to share your views as well as thought with me. If you have any suggestion or question, Don’t be SHY ask it freely :) . you might interested to read how to make secure login in php with sessions.

Author: Tanvir Zafar

Tanvir Zafar is a internet Entrepreneur and owner of this site and many others as well. He is student in GCUF doing BS Software Engineering. :)