WordPress site faster loading tips?

Compress your images
Use the right size for your thumbnails, if 1200x720 is the biggest image for your thumbnail you shouldnt use images that are bigger than that
Lazy load your images
Host the fonts locally
Use a cache plugin
Light theme like GeneratePress or Astra
 
No one said the obvious.

I might even make a tutorial.....


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I share some amazing tips that will help to optimise your website overall and improve user experience and site load

  1. Choose a Reliable Hosting Provider
  2. Optimize Images and Media - There are many plugins which will help you to optimise
  3. Use a Caching Plugin - Wp rocket cache is recommended you can choose others as well
  4. Update WordPress Core, Themes, and Plugins - Must update regularly
  5. Implement a Content Delivery Network (CDN) - It's better to use Cloudflare it is free for CDN
  6. Enable GZIP Compression - It can be enabled through the cache plugin
  7. Optimize Database - Make sure you took a backup before optimizing your database
  8. Use a Lightweight Theme - Themes like Astra, Oceanwp, Avada etc
  9. Minify CSS and JavaScript - You can optimise this through cache plugins like wp rocket
  10. Implement Lazy Loading - It also helps a lot in improvising load time
  11. Optimize Permalinks - Make permalinks structure simple

There are many plugins and themes available on our website which will help to reduce the load time of your website
 
Uninstall irrelevant plugins and there will be some improvement for your website.
 
Are you using elementor? elementor is huge bloat, website without elementor or other similar builders generally work way better even without any further optimization
 
Get a decent server that's not on sale for scraps.
Use the latest PHP
Optimize your setup based on server resources. defaults don't give the best results.
Keep plugins to a minimum, Use functions.php for some small features addition
Profile your wordpress performance with plugins and choose the fastest ones.
Clear the clutter from old plugins and themes in your database

Be lean and mean
 
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consider compressing and optimizing images before uploading them to your site
 
  1. Choose a fast hosting provider.
  2. Use a lightweight theme.
  3. Enable caching.
  4. Optimize images.
  5. Minify CSS and JavaScript.
  6. Reduce external requests.
  7. Implement lazy loading.
  8. Optimize the database.
  9. Use a Content Delivery Network (CDN).
  10. Limit plugins.
  11. Keep software up-to-date.
  12. Optimize PHP and server settings.
  13. Enable browser caching.
  14. Optimize fonts.
  15. Reduce external embeds.
  16. Monitor performance.
  17. Implement content delivery techniques.
definitely a must do
 
Pick a reliable hosting company.
Go for a simple theme.
Make images load faster.
Save web pages for faster access.
Make CSS and JavaScript files smaller.
Get rid of useless add-ons.
Cut down on web page requests.
Employ a content delivery network (CDN) to speed things up.
 
Use WP rocket plugin, You will get it free, Search on member download or giveaway section.
 
Make sure you use the latest version of PHP, WordPress and all other theme plugins are updated also try to use CDN to see if it helps There are some cache plugin that can also help to increase speed of your website
 
Use EWWW Image Optimizer to reduse image size.
Loading speeds should improve dramatically.
 
What are the best practices for optimizing the speed and performance of a WordPress site to ensure fast loading times?
 
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