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Are you facing speed-related challenges for your WordPress website? Are you on the lookout for quick tips and solutions to handle WordPress Speed Optimization<\/a>? Then this article is for you. Here we will tell you some basic do-it-yourself tips to improve the speed of your WordPress website.<\/p>\r\n The most used CMS today is WordPress. In the modern digital world everything revolves around productivity and speed. The explanations for why we must improve website speed are listed below;<\/p>\r\n Utilizing resources like GTmetrix<\/a>, Google Page Speed Insights<\/a>, and Pingdom Tools<\/a>, you may assess the speed of your WordPress website.<\/p>\r\n I am sharing with you some simple to-do steps.<\/p>\r\n\r\n The first step to a faster site is deleting unwanted plugins and themes. Unused plugins and themes can hinder the functionality of WordPress websites, in addition to causing security risks.<\/p>\r\n Steps to delete a plugin:<\/p>\r\n Discard unused media and clear the space to boost the speed of your website.<\/p>\r\n Steps to delete the media library:<\/p>\r\n To delete files and images in bulk, choose \u201cDelete Selected.\u201d<\/p>\r\n Click \u201cOk\u201d to remove images permanently.<\/p>\r\n Optimizing the images and resizing them before uploading is an excellent way to ensure quick page loads.<\/p>\r\n There are four different sizes available for images in WordPress:<\/p>\r\n Steps to resize the images:<\/p>\r\n You always use a plugin to do it for you. WordPress plugins that can compress the images for you.<\/a><\/p>\r\n Videos load slowly on servers. Host your movies independently on websites like YouTube to speed up your WordPress website.<\/p>\r\n \u201cTaking care of your website speed constantly can be daunting affair for small business owners and even for agencies.<\/p>\r\n Designed a WordPress maintenance and support plans for wordpress agencies<\/a> and small business. We\u2019ll take care of your site while you can focus on your business.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n Your site may become slow to load and navigate due to accumulated CSS, HTML, JS, and other source code files. Therefore, lessen the code to increase the website\u2019s speed. Use the Autoptimize plugin.<\/p>\r\n We also need to remove these Render-blocking Javascript files. Always use the latest version of PHP.<\/p>\r\n *Note \u2013 Removing the render-blocking javascript can sometime break your site so make sure you backup the site first and use the plugin with caution<\/i><\/p>\r\n WordPress features, pingbacks, and trackbacks notify other websites when you link to them in your site’s content. Unfortunately, they waste server resources and open the door for DDoS attacks and spammers. Thus, we should turn them off as they can also cause slowness regarding page speed.<\/p>\r\n Steps to disable pingbacks on every post you post:<\/p>\r\n Tick the box next to \u201cDiscussion\u201d in the post’s settings to turn off Pingbacks for specific posts.<\/p>\r\n Post revisions save any change you make to a piece of content constantly, which can slow down your website. Therefore, you should restrict the number of revisions per post to speed up your website. You can limit the WordPress post revisions manually or use the plugin.<\/a><\/p>\r\n Steps to restrict post revisions manually:<\/p>\r\n Steps to restrict the post revisions using the plugin:<\/p>\r\n We\u2019ll bring your website to speed within 48-72 hours. Our WordPress experts<\/a> will send you a website speed diagnosis report and pinpoint why your website was loading slow.<\/p>\r\n You can contact us at hi@cgcolors.com<\/a><\/p>\r\n Schedule a call<\/a>\r\n<\/div>\r\n By delaying loading images and videos until they are displayed on the screen, lazy loading increases page speed. WordPress versions 5.5 and up provide lazy loading of images by default, but not for videos.<\/p>\r\n Steps for enabling Lazy loading:<\/p> \r\n<\/p> Compression makes the website’s components lighter and smaller. Use GZip to compress the content of your website, cutting the size by about 70%, indicating that it loads more quickly. We can use WordPress Caching plugins to enable compressing option.<\/p>\r\n Installing and activating the WP Rocket plugin<\/a> automatically enables the compressing.<\/p>\r\n If you want to go with WP Super Cache<\/a> instead, here are the steps to enable Compressing with WP Super Cache:<\/p>\r\n Paginating the comments can help boost your WordPress website’s speed.<\/a> It is the best practice to limit the number of comments per page to speed up the page load.<\/p>\r\n Steps to paginate comments:<\/p>\r\n Also, update WordPress core, themes, and plugins to make your site function as effectively as possible. Simplify your page designs and contents. Optimize your site\u2019s homepage to speed up the website. Consider using lightweight themes. These are a few do-it-yourself tips to make the WordPress site load faster and improve the SERP ranking. Use analytic tools to keep measuring your website speed and keep track of it. After speed does matter!<\/p>\r\n\r\n Many times your website is already fully optimized for speed but hosting is doing all the damage, please check our blog post \u201cIs your website hosting slowing down your site?<\/a>\u201d and check if you need to improve hosting.<\/p>\r\n For more WordPress focused blog posts, please bookmark our blog post and following on Twitter<\/a> and Linkedin <\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Are you facing speed-related challenges for your WordPress website? Are you on the lookout for quick tips and solutions to handle WordPress Speed Optimization? Then this article is for you. Here we will tell you some basic do-it-yourself tips to improve the speed of your WordPress website. The most used … Read More “Simple do-it-yourself ideas to speed up your WordPress site”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wordpress"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n\r\n
9 DIY ideas to speed up your WordPress Site<\/h2>
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2. Media Library<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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3. Resize to optimize.<\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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4. Compress HTML, CSS, JS, and PHP<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n\r\n
5. Disable\/Turn Off Pingbacks and Trackbacks<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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6. Post Revisions<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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Do you want to improve your website speed? Call our website speed optimization experts today<\/h2>\r\n
7. Lazy Loading<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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8. Compress Files with GZIP<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n
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9. Paginate Comments<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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