- Remove plugins that slow you down.
- There are many plugins out there that are incredibly script heavy. This tends to slow down the loading speed of your site and can really lower your google ranking. Click here to view a list of plugins that are known to slow you down!
- Clean up your database.
- Usually within a database there can be quite a bit of autoloaded data. This can cause database request slowness due to the number of requests being made, and the most common requests not being cached. Clean up your database and turn off autoload on anything that isn’t necessary.
- Optimize your images.
- It’s important that you are saving your images as small as you can in file size and for web. If you haven’t been, or if you think you can optimize them more than you already have, try downloading Imagify to get your images even lighter. Lighter images = faster website.
- Keep everything up to date.
- It’s important to keep your PHP, WordPress Install and Plugins up-to-date. Before updating though, always make a backup first!
- Optimize your google fonts.
- Google fonts can use a lot of HTTP requests. By optimizing them you use less HTTP requests and in turn, the site can load faster. WP-Rocket can help with this.
- Turn on object caching.
- Object Caching helps your page generation time by storing the results to repeated queries for faster access. WP-Rocket can help with this.
- Get a CDN.
- A CDN may help if you’re not already using one as it adds more cache layers to the site, and speeds up static resources and when they’re served.
- Download a render blocking plugin.
- An optimization plugin such as autoptimize (free) or WP-Rocket (paid but worth it) can help with this.
- Use lazy loading.
- This loads resources on a page only when they’re accessed by the browser screen, and saves load time for these resources in the background. WP-Rocket can help with this.
