Are you experiencing the problems of a slow blog?
Do you want to enhance the user experience of your blog?
In an age when information could be acquired with the snap of the fingers, it is vital to deliver content speedily to get positive impact for your business.
Why Is Website Speed Important?
First impression is always the last impression.
There are a number of tools to check out the loading speed of your website.
When new visitors turn up on your website, the first thing that they encounter is the load speed of your site. Even though your website is great with all the right content and design, the visitors will get irritated if your site doesn’t load on time and thus leave even before they see the first page. This increases the bounce rate if the visitors are directed from the search pages, thus affecting your rankings.
In addition to this, Google is striving the best to put great value on website loading speeds. Thus if your site is not speedy as far as loading is concerned, you may lose some precious rankings on Google search. In spite of all the efforts that you have put on designing your website and online marketing, they will all go in vain. This is ultimately going to affect your business.
Here are some simple steps to boost the performance of your WordPress site:
Let’s know the fundamentals: Here is a summary of all those things that you need to know about your WordPress site:
- Minimal use of plug-ins: It will prove to be a burden if you have higher number of plug-ins, and thus it will slow down the speed of your site. Choose the plug-ins carefully and use the necessary ones.
- Delete all spammy comments: This is one more practice that slows down the website. Make sure that you regularly delete all the spammy comments from the database.
- Delete the post revisions: Just like the spammy comments, the copies of old posts’ revisions will make your database a heavy box and slow down your website. Make sure that you delete all the old post revisions.
Get a good hosting services provider: In order to run a car, you need to give it efficient fuel. The same stands true for your WordPress site. In order to function properly, WordPress needs resources such as a server where it could be hosted. At times, these resources are not enough and this is often the case on shared hosting. Thus it is better to upgrade your hosting account at the earliest if you are using a company like HostGator or Dreamhost.
You could also get a Virtual Private Server (VPS) or a dedicated server, but what really works is a managed WordPress hosting.
You could event take out time to set up and optimize their own server that could be dedicated to the WordPress site.
Up-to-date Site Scripts: You will have to regularly check to whether new releases of the site scripts are available or not depending on the CMS or any other platform that your blog site uses. If new scripts are available, you will need to upgrade them at the earliest. However, make sure that you have the latest backup file. When it comes to speed, all the site script developers will always work to improve the code.
Have a proper size of the image before uploading: Users of WordPress would have noticed that they are able to upload the images and adjust it’s size within the back end of the website. However, this process sends multiple commands to the web browsers, thus slowing down your site as they pull up the real image and then re-size while loading.
In order to prevent this, it is essential to edit the image with an editing program to the required size and then upload it to the website.
Intelligent theme selection: The next step is to select the right theme for your WordPress site.
It is not only recommended to choose just a simple theme, but also a framework of other advantages to you site:
- Improve the speed
- Tools of built-in-security
- Basic search engine optimization
- Beautiful designs
When looking at a theme/framework, one should see if the framework is updated regularly or not. Also points to be considered are the emphasis laid on security and how unique and creative are the designs that they offer.
One more important aspect to look on is which SEO features are incorporated into the theme.
It’s now your turn: Ensure that you follow these steps to enhance the loading speed of the WordPress site and improve the overall user experience.
Author Bio: Bency George is a communications and PR professional. He gives strategic digital marketing services to his clients and is a regular contributor to DedicatedServers.info. He has a master’s degree in communication and is passionate to help those who want to manage their websites
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