12 Tips To Make WordPress Website Loading Under 1 Sec...

On May 27, 2003, Matt Announced The Availability Of The First Version Of WordPress. At That Time WordPress Is Used For Blogging Purpose, But With The Passage Of Time Further Development & Advancement Take Place & Now Web Designers & Developers Use WordPress For Making Large Websites. WordPress Is Powering 22% Of All Websites.

Why WordPress Site Speed Matters..?

Page Load Time Becoming More & More Important Ranking Factor Nowadays. When a Person Lands On Your Site For The First Time, You Only Have A Few Seconds To Capture Their Attention, To Convince Them To Hang Around. If Your Site Takes Too Long To Load, Most People Are Gone, Lost Before You Even Had a Chance. It’s So Beneficial To Have Fast Loading Website Because It Also Improve User Experience.

A Research Says That A Website That Take 1 Extra Second To Load Can Lose Their 7% Of Conversions. Not Only That, But Google Now Includes Site Speed In It’s Ranking Algorithm. That Means That Your Site’s Speed Effects SEO, So If Your Site Is Slow, You’re Now Losing Visitors From Impatience And Reduced Rankings In Search Engines.

How To Speed Up WordPress, Let’s Fix That..?

Why Not Speeding Up Page Load Time? That’s The Reason I Brought The Whole Guide On Speeding Up Page Load Time Which Contains Every Aspect Of Making Your Site Load Under 1 Second & This Guide Is Tested By Me! I Guarantee That Using Even a Few Will Help Speed Up Your Site.

If You Follow Each And Every Step Which I’m Going To Mention Below Then You’ll Be Getting More Visitors And You’ll Get Better SERP.

Choose A Good Web Host
Start With A Solid Theme/Framework
Tools To Check Your Page Load Time
Use Effective Catching Plugin
Use A Content Delivery Network (CDN)
Optimize/Compress Images (Automatically)
Remove Unwanted Plugins & Themes
Update Wordpress, Theme & Plugins
Optimize Your Hompage/Landing Page
Optimize Wordpress Database
Removing Old Post Revision
Enable Gzip Compression

1: Choose A Good Host

Web Hosting Is Also Known As “Backbone Of A Website”.
When Starting Out, A Shared Host Might Seem Like a Bargain (“Unlimited Page Views!”). It Comes At Another Cost: Incredibly Slow Site Speed And Frequent Down Time During High Traffic Periods. If You Plan On Publishing Popular Stuff, You’re Killing Yourself By Running Your WordPress Site On Shared Hosting. Better Web Hosting Can Alone Make Your Website Loads Under 1 Second.
The Problem Is Now What Are The Best Web Hosting You Should Choose?
I Recommended You To Use Hosting That Are Good In Support, Good In Loading & Have Their Own Content Delivery Network (CDN).

The Only Wordpress Host I Continually Recommend is WP Engine Managed Wp Hosting

Some Others Are:

1: CloudWays
2: SiteGround

Head On Over To The WP Engine Homepage And Check Out Their Offerings, You’ll Be Happy You Did.

2: Start With A Solid Theme / Frame Work

You Might Be Surprised To Here This, But The Twenty Fifteen “Framework” (Aka The Default WP Theme) Is Lightweight & Quite Speedy.

There Are Many Themes With The Support Of Customizing It From Top To Bottom, It’s Really Good For Beginner. Who Don’t Know How To Do That Customization Using Style Sheet File But This Type Of Theme Not Called as Fast Loading Theme as These Themes Are Full Of Codes.

In Order To Make Your Blog Loads Fast You Have To Use Theme That Is Fast Loading & Smoothly Designed.

I Recommended You To Use "Mythemeshop" Themes. They Know How To Make Your Blog Load Fast Along With The Awesome Designs They Have.

3: Tools To Check Your Page Load Time

You Need Some Tools To Check Your Page Load Time & Detect Those Issues Which Cause Your Website Speed Slow.

I Will Share Some Tools With The Help Of These Tools You Can Check Your Website Loading Speed, Size & Issues Of Your Website. These Tools Are Highly Recommended By WordPress Professionals & SEO Experts. I Personally Use These Tools To Check My Website Status & Believe Me These Tools Do More Than Your Expectations.

Google Speed Test Tool: Google Page Speed Insight is One Of The Most Popular & Helpful Tool For Testing Your Website Loading Speed . It Have a Feature That Will Tell You Different Load Time For Both Devices (Mobile & PCs).
GTMetrix: This Tool Is Best Among All In My Opinion & I Personally Use This Tool Always Because Of Its Unlimited Awesome Features. One Of It’s Best Feature Is You Can Compare Your Site From Any Site (It Can Be Your Competitor’s Site).

4: Use Effective Catching Plugins

WordPress Plugins Are Obviously Quite Useful, But Some Of The Best Fall Under The Caching Category, As They Drastically Improve Page Loads Time, & Best Of All, Some Of Them On WP.Org are Free & Easy To Use.

There Are So Many Plugins Which Can Improve Your Load Time To Under Second Alone. By Far My Favorite, Is WP Rocket, I Wouldn’t Recommend Or Use Any Other Caching Plugin, It Has All Of The Features You Need & Is Extremely Easy To Install & Use.

Basically, Caching Plugins Allows Browser To Save Cache Of The Visitors So Whenever a The Same Visitor Come To Your Blog Then The Load Time Will Mind-Blowing For Him!

There Are Many Caching Plugins For WordPress But These Three Are The Best And Used By Many Experts:

Simply Install & Activate, & What Your Page Load Faster as Elements are Cached.

5: Use A Content Delivery Network (CDN)

All Of Your Favorite Big Blogs are Making Use Of This, & If You are Into Online Marketing Using WordPress (As I’m Sure Many Of My Readers Are) You Won’t Be Surprised To Here That Some Of Your Favorite Blogs are Making Use Of CDN’s.

For Me, CDN Is Just Awesome & The Best Way For Improving Page Load Time. CDN Do Tasks Simpler & Faster. Essentially, A CDN, Or Content Delivery Network, Takes All Your Static Files You’ve Got On Your Site (CSS, Javascript & Images Etc) & Lets Visitors Download Them As Fast As Possible By Serving The Files On Servers As Close To Them As Possible. CDN Basically is The Thing That Loads Your Site According To The Visitor’s Location Means If Someone Request To Visit Your Site From Any Country The Person Who Is Requested To See Your Site Will Download The Server Files From The Nearest Location Of His Place.

The Best Free CDN Is Cloudflare Using Cloudflare On So Many Sites Till Now, & Getting Best Results. However, There Is Paid Version Too Of This CDN, If You Have Great Traffic You Should Go With Paid Version.
Another Is The Max CDN Content Delivery Network, As I’ve Found That They Have The Most Reasonable Prices & Their Dashboard Is Very Simple To Use (& Comes With Video Tutorials For Setting It Up, Takes Only A Few Minutes).
There is a Plugin Too Called Free-CDN That Promises To Do The Same, Although I Haven’t Tested It.

6: Optimize/Compress Images (Automatically)

Images Are The Problems For Bloggers, As They Have To Add The Proper & Attractive Image For Getting Well-Crafted Article. But You Never Know That Images Can Be Dangerous If You Don’t Optimize/Compress Them Properly.

I Recommend You To Use PicResize Before Uploading Any Image On Your Site Compress Them By Editing Them Using It. The Recommended Size Of An Image is 100KB.

There is an Image Optimizer Called SmushIt That Will Drastically Reduce The File Size Of An Image, While Not Reducing Quality. However, If You Are Like Me, Doing This To Every Image Would Be Beyond A Pain, & Incredibly Time Consuming.

Fortunately, There Is an Amazing, Free Plugin Called WP-Smushit Which Will Do This Process To All Of Your Images Automatically, As You Are Uploading Them.

7: Remove Unwanted Plugins Themes.

Whenever We Change The Theme, WordPress Not Delete The Old One, You Have To Delete It Manually. If You’re Having Even One Unused Theme Then Remove It Now, The Theme Is Just Taking Space Nothing Else. Same With The Plugins, We Mostly Deactivate The Plugins But Not Delete It Properly. It’s Still Stored On WordPress. Don’t Forget To Delete Them.

If You’re Also Having Any Unwanted Plugins And Themes Then Remove Them Now. You’ll Surely Get Good Results as This is Proven Way To Improve Page Load Time.

8: Update WordPress, Themes & Plugins

You Must Be Thinking What? Keeping The WordPress Updated Will Help You In Loading Your Site Faster. I Know! But You Know What? Content Management System A.K.A CMS Play a Vital Role In Making The Page Load Time Faster.

It’s Not Just Updating The WordPress, It’s Also About To Install Updates Of Your Themes & Plugins.

Keeping Yourself Up-To-Date Not Only Helps You To Improve Page Load But It Also Helps You To Get More Secure.

Forget The Old Saying “Old Is Gold“, The Things Are Changing From Time To Time.

9: Optimize Your Homepage/ Landing Page

This Isn’t One Thing But Really A Few Easy Things That You Can Do To Ensure That Your Homepage Loads Quickly, Which Probably is The Most Important Part Of Your Site Because People Will Be Landing There The Most Often. Whenever You Check Your Google Analytics Most Traffic Getting Pages, You’ll Get Homepage On The Top. No Doubt, Our Homepage Is One Of The Most Traffic Getting Page Among All.

Things That You Can Do Include:

Show Excerpts Instead Of Full Posts
Reduce The Number Of Posts On The Page (I Like Showing Between 5-7)
Remove Unnecessary Sharing Widgets From The HomePage (Include Them Only In Posts)
Don’t Use Sliders On The Homepage As It Loads Very Slow & Never Gives Better UX.

Overall, A Clean & Focused Homepage Design Will Help Your Page Not Only Look Good, But Load Quicker As Well. Don’t Forget, Homepage Is The First Impression You’re Giving To Your Readers & First Impression Is The Last!

10: Optimize WordPress Database

I’m Certainly Getting Alot Of Use Out Of The Word “Optimize” In This Post!

This Can Be Done The Very Tedious, Extremly Boring Manual Fashion, Or…

You Can Simply Use The WP-Optimize Plugin, Which I Run On All Of My Sites.

This Plugin Lets You Do Just One Simple Task: Optimize The Your Database (Spam, Post Revisions, Drafts, Tables, Etc.) To Reduce Their Overhead.

I Would Also Recommend The WP-Database Manager Plugin, Which Can Schedule Dates For Database Optimization.

11: Remove Old Post Revisions

Whenever You Edit The Post, WordPress Save That Post Without Telling You Even. WordPress, Left To Its Own Devices, Would Store Every Single One Of These Drafts, Indefinitely. Now, When This Post Is Done & Published, Why Would I Need All Of Those Drafts Stored..?

This is a Bigger Task You Can Not Do It Manually, I Was Searching For This On “Google” & Found That There Is A Plugin To Do This Task Called “Better Delete Revisions“.

Another One is Revision Control Plugin. We Can Use It To Make Sure We Keep Post Revisions To a Minimum, Set It To 2 Or 3 So, You Have Something To Fall Back On In Case You Make a Mistake, But Not Too High That You Clutter Your Backend With Unnecessary Amounts Of Drafted Posts.

12: Enable Gzip Compression

It’s Really A Great Technique Nowadays People are Using & Well-Aware Of This. Actually, It’s So Awesome To Enabling Gzip Compression Because It’ll Load Site Pretty Smaller Than The Original One. You Can Use This Gift Of Speed’s Tool To Check Whether It’s Enabled Or Not, If Not Then Here I’m Going To Explain That How You Can Enable It:

Old Gone Days When You Need To Do It Manually By Editing .Htacess Files & Doing Optimizations There. Now Plugins Are Taking Good Roles In Changing Our Life More Easier & Quicker. I Was Searching For The Gzip Compression Plugin Many Times Before And Found This “Check And Enable GZIP Compression“.

This Plugin Is Just Made For This Purpose But Now I’m Using WP Rocket Then WP Rocket Have This Built In Feature 😊😊😊
I Must Say That WP Rocket Is One Of The Best Plugins As I’m Using That It Makes My Life So Much Easier Alone!