Is your WordPress slow? Are your visitors getting frustrated by waiting for slow page loads? Or do you just want your website to be lightning fast? Here are some suggestions for what you can do to speed up your WordPress. Of course, the situation can vary between different systems, but these measures usually improve performance.
Change hosting
If you’re on shared hosting, WordPress probably doesn’t have enough resources to perform at its peak. You can switch to another web host, alternatively Liberdev can host your website and then we can also upgrade the system on an ongoing basis.
Install a caching plugin
Server-side caching means that the pages are stored as HTML files on the server so that the system does not have to retrieve any data from the database. In many cases, this makes the response time from the server quite a bit shorter because large database queries can put a strain on the server and take a long time. There are many plugins for WordPress that can cache pages.
Connect a CDN
CDN stands for Content Distribution Network and is a network of servers around the world that can store your files and, if necessary, serve them to users. This often leads to faster response times as there is often a CDN server close to the user no matter where in the world they are. A CDN can also help relieve your server.
Change to a faster theme
Many WordPress themes load large loads of outdated Javascript and make huge executions in the database. This negatively affects performance. Switch to a faster theme or let Liberdev develop a custom-built theme.
Scale down your images
Large images in the wrong file format can take much longer to load than optimized images. Compress the images and convert them to Webp or AVIF for better performance.
Other ways to turbo charge your WordPress
Of course, there are more things one can do to optimize the speed of WordPress, but what we’ve covered in this article will go a long way. If you want help speeding up your site, contact us and we’ll do a free survey to see how we can optimize performance.