Guide of speeding up WordPress Website
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The document provides tips for speeding up a WordPress website. It discusses how page speed affects search engine ranking. Common causes of website slowness include server configuration, plugins, hosting plans, and client computers. Suggested optimizations include updating core technologies and CMS, removing unnecessary plugins, optimizing images and databases, enabling caching and gzip compression, choosing a good host, and prioritizing content. Development tips involve decreasing requests, minifying files, loading scripts in the footer, optimizing queries, and educating clients.
Guide of speeding up WordPress Website
- 1. Guide of Speeding up WordPress Xin Peng
- 2. Outline Why Page Speed matters Why is a website slow How to speed up your website General Speed Increases Development-related Speed Increases
- 3. Why does it matter? Better Speed = Higher Ranking
- 4. Why is it slow? ❖ Language and Basic technology ❖ Server configuration (like gzip compression) ❖ Content Management Systems (Slower than static HTML site) ❖ Extensions (themes & plugins, used on top of CMS) ❖ Server (parameters, location) ❖ Hosting plan ➢ Shared service(People sharing same server, which could be uneven) ➢ VPS(Virtual Private Server, fewer users and even distribution) ➢ Dedicated server ❖ Client Computer(age)
- 5. General Speed Increases ❏ Update Core Technologies(PHP configuration) ❏ Update CMS(patch security issues) ❏ Decrease requests (Google developer tool, Pingdom etc.) ❏ Remove Unnecessary and Wasteful plugins ❏ Remove unnecessary eye-candy ❏ Use a CDN ❏ Enable Caching ❏ Optimize Database ❏ Optimize Images ❏ Enable Gzip Compression (reduce redundancy) ❏ Disable Hotlinking (.htaccess) ❏ Choose a good host(VPS or Managed WordPress Hosting) ❏ Monitor your site (react before it speeds down)
- 6. Development-related Speed Increases ❏ Learn WordPress (WordPress Codex) ❏ Decrease requests ❏ Minify Files ❏ Load scripts in the Footer ❏ Prioritize your content ❏ Use Proper Image sizes and specify them ❏ Decrease and Optimize Queries ❏ Utilize Activation, Deactivation, Uninstall Hooks ❏ Educate your clients (like proper plugin usage)
- 8. Thank You!
Editor's Notes
- #4: 1.Google, SEO 2.Think about it in another way, if Mutt Maps speed up for 1 second, it means 7% more conversions, 11% more page views, 16% increase of customer satisfaction
- #5: Pure HTML would be less issue, but not server-side programming language People use ASP.NET, PHP, HHVM, PHP7 to execute PHP code, you can’t do much things with this Slower because need to connect to a server, the server need to process a request, generate HTML and send it back to browser, including database queries.A well-built CMS could do more good than harm like more security, easier adding of content and a ton of features you can implement any time. Optimize mechanisms available Not created by same people. While coding, becareful of bad code, choosing good methods People share hard drive memory,bandwidth, CPU speed,
- #6: Hard to optimize PHP, but you can keep it updated, problems could appear if very old code exists so ask your host Decrease posts per page, show fewer images, cut back on plugins, switch themes, lazy load images, concatenation, WP smush Pro, EWWW Image Optimizer WP Optimizer or manually do it through phpMyAdmin (WP Super Cache, W3 Total Cache, WP Rocket) (host image off-server & decrease image load times)
- #7: 1.Concatenation, Gulp, Sprites are concatenated images, Twitter uses sprites, online tool Stitches 2.Plugin like WP super Minify, or online tools like Grunt. 3.Load in the footer make sure essential content loaded first