Or is it the domain itself that is the bottle neck in this particular case? I appreciate all the help I can get, Erik The page I need help with: [ log in to see the link]. Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 of 2 total. Moderator t-p t-p 3 years, 1 month ago.
Thread Starter eriknords eriknords 2 years, 10 months ago. Hey again, thanks for the reply. Just remember that if your website is quite old, you will need to first check to see if it is compatible with the latest version.
We see this often when helping customers here where they are running a very old version of PHP on their web hosting server. You should always be running the most recent version of PHP that is available. We are talking about speed here but there are also several security enhancements that come with new version of PHP. That means that not only will you end up with plenty of plugins to run, but that some of these them may not be updated, which can slow down the performance of your site even more.
An excessive amount of plugins installed and activated on a WordPress site can be the death of speed. You have to remember that for each plug and you have installed and activated it is likely adding some type of server request when it functions.
Each of these requests take time to complete. The more requests that you have running the slower your website is going to take to render and view for your visitor. Make sure that you are not bloating your website with a large amount of active plugins that are not necessary for its success.
Speed is also about sacrifice and while there may be a really cool plugin with a really cool feature that you want to have on your WordPress site it might slow it down. So what would you rather have speed or this cool feature that the plugin offers. Speed is about sacrifice in some cases.
Take a look at the 10 plugins you should stay away from at the link below. What is a good website without good images? However, size does matter. While a px by px image is great for framing, it is awful for your website. Keep in mind that most desktop screens are px wide and mobile screens are usually no wider than px.
Depending on how you expect your visitors to access the site, there is no need to ever publish an image larger than this. And if you plan on using a picture for half the page , resize it to half before uploading it. You can do this on a Mac with Preview, on Windows with Picture Manager, or even online at Pixlr, Fotor, or another similar photo editing site. While a DPI of is fine for many pictures for print, it is excessive for most screens — especially mobile.
A DPI of 72 is fairly standard for web publication and can optimize the load time of your images. Finally, there is a plugin called WP Smush that can help you compress your images, even if they are already uploaded.
It automatically compresses images you load after you install it. Of course, one reason WordPress is so slow may not be your fault. Your web host Bluehost, Hostgator, iPage, etc. The two most common types of hosting are:. Has your site been around for a while? You may have deleted a few pages, used a different platform than WordPress, or made some other major changes in the past few years.
However, other sites that have linked to you and even search engines may have your old URLs. There are many fixes to this type of issue including manually editing your external links, removing old pages, adding a better redirect code , or even bringing these pages back.
It can be annoying to have WordPress ask you to update several times a week. This often includes plugins, themes , or even the CMS itself. While it can be a pain and can even bring down the site when incompatible items are updated, it can be worth it. A slow response time can be caused by outdated tools, and a simple click can resolve the issue. These types of upgrades often come with improvements, and many of them account for speed. If unsure, perform a speed test before and after updates.
It replaces all other images and video embeds with a placeholder image. You can lazy load images, videos, and even WordPress comments and gravatars. For WordPress comments see our guide on how to lazy load comments in WordPress. A WordPress firewall plugin helps you block brute force attacks , hacking attempts, and malware. However, not all firewall plugins are the same.
Some of them run on your website, this means attackers are already able to reach your web server before they get blocked. This is still effective for security, but not optimal for performance. These firewalls block maclious requests even before they reach your website. This has a small but noticeable performance impact. You can reduce this by manually fixing all URLs. WordPress is mainly written in the PHP programming language. It is a server side language, which means it is installed and runs on your hosting server.
However, it is possible that your hosting company is running a slightly older PHP version. The newer PHP 7 is two times faster than its predecessors. You can see which PHP version your site is using by installing and activating the Version Info plugin. Upon activation, the plugin will show your PHP version in the footer area of your WordPress admin dashboard.
If your website is using a version lower than PHP 7, then ask your hosting provider to update it for you. If they are unable to do so, then it is time to find a new WordPress hosting company. We hope this article helped you learn how to improve wordpress speed and performance.
Go ahead and try out these techniques. If you liked this article, then please subscribe to our YouTube Channel for WordPress video tutorials. You can also find us on Twitter and Facebook. Trusted by over 1. Looking forward to getting on with implementing all relevant strategies — as soon as I can get Admin access back for my site! Glad you found our guide helpful. Glad you found our recommendations helpful.
Glad you found it helpful. Glad our guide was helpful. This was incredibly thorough and helpful! In about 20 minutes this morning I sped up my current ad landing page lead time from 7. They are different sites that scan different stats the specific scores should normally be different. Thank you. We manually create our table of contents at the moment. I use several plugins that have to do caching my web.
It is called redundant? I have installed so many themes and plugins. Some plugins are inactive. Does the inactive plugins slow down my website? I have a question. And No one never written about this. Question is When actually should we worry about the page speed? My website speed is more than Even I have seen this website speed also not more than So when should we worry about page speed? I am waiting your answer. There is a large amount of debate on when to focus on speed, the main time would be when it becomes an issue for you and once you have your site speed where you would like it, you would keep an eye on when the speed starts to change to look at optimizing again.
Thanks a lot! I caanot thank you enough. Glad our recommendations could help. Thanks Bhai! Today This Post is Very Useful. Thanks Again. Glad you found our post helpful. But I must commend you guys, how much your articles and videos have helped a beginner like me is immeasurable. Please help me sir. Really useful article, but bits of it are beyond this WP Beginner! I really need to limit the number of revisions on my posts, but am nervous about coding and changing php.
Can you direct me to where I might find more detail about where to enter this code, preferably with screen shots? Many thanks for such a useful article. Thanks for amazing useful guide.
We would like to make a wordpress web promoting all the cafe-restaurants, hotels and other businesses in the country. And we estimate that there will be , pages on this website such as tripadvisor. Would you suggest we do it in WordPress? You could certainly create a site to do that, you would want to make sure your hosting can handle a site that large.
Thanks WPBeginner, It helped me to speed up my website.
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