Improve Site Loading Speed in 2 Minutes

[Masood]

Site loading time is very important factor for your SERPs. Google always rank a site better which have less loading time.Google has officially announced it as its important ranking factir.

(Refrence:searchengineland dot com) Google’s Zhiheng Wang and Doantam Phan wrote:

""The “Speed Update,” as we’re calling it, will only affect pages that deliver the slowest experience to users and will only affect a small percentage of queries. It applies the same standard to all pages, regardless of the technology used to build the page.""

If you want to get maximum from your SEO efforts then this very important to improve your Site Loading speed.

Here i am going to share simple tips which can reduce your site loading time.

note:Before Starting check your site speed with "Google Page Speed Insights". Google it to find link

Step 1: Enable Gzip compression
Gzip compression is a tool in your cpanel reduce loading time by compressing files. To enable this option follow these instructions

1:First login to your cPanel account.
2:After login to the cPanel account, Click on "Optimize Website" under the Software section
3:You will find three options to select. Select "Compress all content" and click "Update Settings"

Step 2: Install W3 Total Cache Plugin (If Site is on WordPress)

If your site is on wordpress then you can install W3 Total Cache Plugin to improve your site speed. To install and configure follow these instructions

1: Install W3 Total Cache
2: After Installing go to Performance > General
3: Enable everything you want to cache and click on "Save all Settings"

Check site speed again with "Google Page Speed Insights". You will see improvement

 

[X]

Is anyone else tried it and it worked ? Pleas say if did

Why would this not work? Super basic info that does help speed up a site. Though there's a lot more work than just Gzip and caching if you want to optimize fully.

Image compression, browser caching, using a CDN, tweaking Apache or Nginx, varnish, etc.

 

[Masood]

Why would this not work? Super basic info that does help speed up a site. Though there's a lot more work than just Gzip and caching if you want to optimize fully.

Image compression, browser caching, using a CDN, tweaking Apache or Nginx, varnish, etc.

Thats right. But these tips are just simple tips for beginners who just want a quick Do It Yourself method

 

[blogzandstuff]

Thats right. But these tips are just simple tips for beginners who just want a quick Do It Yourself method

i agree, no need to over complicate things for beginners, it just gets confusing. Nice share OP

 

[X]

Thats right. But these tips are just simple tips for beginners who just want a quick Do It Yourself method

i agree, no need to over complicate things for beginners, it just gets confusing. Nice share OP

Definitely agree, didn't mean to make it sound like I was knocking the info at all, apologies if it came off that way. Solid starting tips, OP.

 

[Masood]

Definitely agree, didn't mean to make it sound like I was knocking the info at all, apologies if it came off that way. Solid starting tips, OP.

Thanks. I am new on this forum so feeling excited to see that you guys like my first or may be second post.

 

[blogzandstuff]

Thanks. I am new on this forum so feeling excited to see that you guys like my first or may be second post.

You keep sharing tips and tricks and you'll be just fine. There are beginners and professionals on here, a real mixed bunch, so keep up the good work

 

[Deleted member 877043]

@Masood Great guide.

My only suggestion is to swap out W3 Total Cache for the community fix.

https://github.com/szepeviktor/w3-total-cache-fixed

https://github.com/szepeviktor/w3-total-cache-fixed/releases

 

[Mr Crabs]

If you find W3 is breaking your site, give wp fastest cache a go, does the same sorta stuff, just seems quicker to setup out of the box for lazy bois like me lmao.

Oh and use something like imagify to optimise images, then your site will be super fast.

 

[Masood]

If you find W3 is breaking your site, give wp fastest cache a go, does the same sorta stuff, just seems quicker to setup out of the box for lazy bois like me lmao.

Oh and use something like imagify to optimise images, then your site will be super fast.

This is another great step to improve speed even better

 

[blogzandstuff]

If you find W3 is breaking your site, give wp fastest cache a go, does the same sorta stuff, just seems quicker to setup out of the box for lazy bois like me lmao.

Oh and use something like imagify to optimise images, then your site will be super fast.

i use this free plugin for images, very good
https://wordpress.org/plugins/ewww-image-optimizer/

 

[Mr Crabs]

Used to love ewww, but since moving to a VPS im not a fan of having exec() on for a wp plugin, but that's just the paranoid pickle in me.

On shared hosting tho EWWW is great and free, and who doesn't love free!

 

[pj777777]

Works for me

 

[Zshan]

Using WP Rocket instead of W3 Total cache plugin. Any tips on this plugin?

 

[DJ.Bud]

https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/speeding-up-your-wordpress-site-in-2018.1021617/

Is great info imo

 

[amazzy]

If you have the necessary access, Google's PageSpeed module for APACHE or NGINX is awesome. Some of the filters add to CPU load slightly but its worth it in the long run.

https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/module/

 

[Masood]

If you have the necessary access, Google's PageSpeed module for APACHE or NGINX is awesome. Some of the filters add to CPU load slightly but its worth it in the long run.

Looks interesting. I will also try it on my site. Thanks for sharing

 

[Shaybib]

Do you use w3 total cache database and object cache? I scared to use it not sure why

 

[bpetrov]

Be careful with Google's PageSpeed Module, in some cases breaks the Javascript. There is a description of each filter in the documentation, which filter it does and what the risk is.

 

[kid1810]

This is my combination for my websites:
- Use Nginx
- Specify header expire at least 7 days
- Wordpress plugin:
== WP-Stateless: Images stored on Google bucket, set Cloudflare CDN for images (do not use any minify from Cloudflare)
== Fast Velocity Minify: minify and combine js & css, defer scripts.
== a3 Lazy Load: lazy load all image and youtube clips
== WP Super Cache: cache plugin
- Customized Contact Form 7 to has script in only necessary pages (Google)

Never use optimized image plugin on the sites because waiting to upload is slow as hell, and I want to save funds for other things. I do on my own: export images as web (50% quality) then compress locally before uploading.

Loading page with more than 6 large images and 1-2 youtube clips is 1-1.5 seconds.

I am trying to find way to setup Varnish with ssl and activate mod_rewrite for WP Super Cache.