{"id":99220,"date":"2023-09-22T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/improve-the-speed-of-your-wordpress-website-2\/"},"modified":"2023-09-22T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T09:00:00","slug":"improve-the-speed-of-your-wordpress-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/en-in\/improve-the-speed-of-your-wordpress-website\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Make My WordPress Site Faster: 5 Easy Tips + 8 Bonus Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

<\/b><\/i> The speed and performance of your website is more important today than ever before. Users\u2019 expectations have grown and their patience has decreased. If a website loads too slowly, users will quickly move on to another site rather than waiting another second or two. Even if users do not run away, a slow site will leave them disappointed, frustrated, and likely to abandon your site even in the midst of shopping. If you’re asking the age old question – how to make my WordPress site faster – we’re here to answer it!<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Furthermore, Google has clearly stated that the <\/span>speed of a site will affect a site\u2019s ranking<\/span><\/a> in the search results. So in order to keep both your users and Google happy, it is important to pay attention to site speed.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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5 Fundamental ways to improve site speed<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

1. Use a good web hosting plan<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

It really all starts with choosing the right WordPress hosting<\/a> plan with the right hosting company. Even before talking about speed, you must have a reliable company with solid and reliable hardware to host your website. If you site is unreliable, it doesn\u2019t matter how fast it performs. Visitors will run away and never come back. Do your homework and check out <\/span>user reviews for hosting companies<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Getting back to speeding up your website, most hosting companies, such as <\/span>Bluehost<\/span>, offer a range of hosting plans, starting with inexpensive shared hosting and moving up through virtual servers, dedicated servers, and cloud servers. The prices increase as you move up through the different types of hosting, but the number of resources dedicated to your website also increase. While it is OK to begin with shared hosting when you are just starting your site, be sure to regularly track your traffic volume and resource usage so that you can upgrade to a better hosting plan before visitors start noticing your site being sluggish.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Enable caching<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Simply put, <\/span>caching<\/span><\/i> is the technical term for storing data in a temporary storage area. This improves a site\u2019s performance since a lot of a page\u2019s content is already prepared and available and does not need be fetched and processed in order to be displayed for a user. It also reduces the load of various system resources on your server.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We recommend you use the caching plugins provided by Bluehost, that are built to work best in that environment. You can find these cache settings in the performance page of the Bluehost plugin or WordPress section of the control panel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If your site is not a WordPress site, enabling caching is more complex and beyond the scope of this article. In either case, you should discuss caching options with your hosting provider, since they will often have recommendations based on the optimizations they have implemented on their end.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. Use a content delivery network<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Probably the next most effective way to speed up your website is to use a content delivery network. A CDN is a worldwide network of servers that allows you to duplicate and store your site\u2019s static elements\/files (e.g. CSS, Javascript, images, documents, videos, etc.). <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

These elements are then delivered to visitors from a server closer to their physical location. For example, if your website is hosted on a server in the U.S., visitors from other parts of the world will have to have to wait a (relatively) long time for your content to reach their browsers. With a CDN, that time is reduced dramatically, since the static content will be provided from a local server much closer to them instead of one from across the world.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bluehost offers the TrueSpeed CDN inside the control panel.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. Optimize your images<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

For your images to load as quickly as possible, it is important to resize them before<\/em> uploading them to your website. Don\u2019t upload images larger than what you actually need to display. Scaling images in the HTML code might display them as desired, but it won\u2019t reduce its original file size. For example, a JPG image that is 800\u00d7800 pixels with a 100kb file size will take just as long to load when coded to display at a 200\u00d7200 size as it would if you displayed it at full size. If you optimize the JPG to only 200\u00d7200 before you upload it, you might be able to get it down to 20kb and reduce the load time significantly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As users come to expect higher quality images on websites, image size becomes more of an issue for page speed. Most images can be reduced in size using either graphic-editing tools or plugins without a web user noticing any reduction in quality. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Optimize Your Website\u2019s Images With These WordPress Plugins<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are the important things to remember:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n