Comments on: How to Speed Up Your Website

By: Nick Sch"aferhoff

Nick Sch"aferhoff — Wed, 05 May 2021 11:41:00 +0000

Hey James, you should be able to simply hire a WordPress developer for this job. They have the technical knowledge to help you. Check out https://codeable.io/ to find reputable devs.

By: James Durfee

James Durfee — Mon, 03 May 2021 19:44:33 +0000

Thanks for the article. I’ve been dealing with this problem for a long time, and I feel that this is why my performance is so bad.

I’ve tried several recommended plugins but nothing. Is there a good company that won’t break the bank to help with this. I’m about to give up on the site because of this.
Thanks!

By: Dorin

Dorin — Wed, 31 Oct 2018 09:05:04 +0000

Great article!

In addition to your post: Enable Expires Headers, Get a Better Web Host

Install Google PageSpeed on Your Server, Enable Gzip Compression, Regularly Optimize Your Database.

Thanks!

By: Mike Gary

Mike Gary — Sat, 06 Oct 2018 12:51:43 +0000

Very detailed article on speeding up websites! I’ve already implemented many of the tips like reducing HTTP requests, browser caching, using minify setting etc. still sometimes images slow down my site! as you said, we can’t ignore even a millisecond!
thanks for sharing!

By: Lora Empson

Lora Empson — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 09:34:39 +0000

WordPress speed is dependant on many things like your hosting server, files (HTML, CSS, Jquery etc.) Images. So after that, you can calculate the complete thing. Use of CDN and AMP can boost the WordPress based website’s speed.

By: Ray Boller

Ray Boller — Sun, 28 Jan 2018 08:09:56 +0000

Great tips and I must agree with you that having a reliable host is very important if you like to have a fast loading website. I tried everything to speed up my slow WordPress site and finally gut the results I wanted when I switched to a better hosting.

By: Thomas Ramirez

Thomas Ramirez — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 13:08:29 +0000

Hey, thanks for the piece.

A lot of truth to this, and points to take note of.

I’ve been saying this, but I think it’s important to mention JPEGmini (
https://www.jpegmini.com/). It is as perhaps THE image compression engine. It’s not necessary for everyone, given it’s not actually a free tool (but aren’t we a little too used to everything being free on the web?), but for photography businesses, I’ve found nothing that could match it.

I am also curious if you can provide any more thoughts about CDNs. I know server proximity is important – I tested this with both GeekReport (
https://geekreport.stream/) and Pingdom (https://www.pingdom.com/). But, Cloudflare (https://www.cloudflare.com/) has a free plan. I am curious if it’s actually useful and provides a measurable change in load times. Have you tried it? Are there any issues with it, especially when running a WordPress site? Any clashing with plugins?

By: Marks

Marks — Wed, 25 Oct 2017 17:23:34 +0000

Steven you had done a great job by listing the important facts on a single list. I am already using the WP Rocket for caching and WP Smush for optimizing images. But, the new thing I found here is the use of Cloudflare CDN for reducing the loading time, I would add my site as soon as possible. Hope to get the good results! However, keep up the awesome work.

By: T I Antor

T I Antor — Mon, 16 Oct 2017 07:55:50 +0000

Hey,

Excellent stuff!! I learned many things from your post and now able to solve my site speed issue. I have so many unnecessary plugins and my image should be optimized. I also heard that Cloudfare is alos effective for speeding up the website. BTW, many many thanks for your useful post.

By: Alina D

Alina D — Sat, 09 Sep 2017 09:48:17 +0000

Hello,

Great topic and a good write up as well with surefire ways to speeding up the wp blogs. Google is working hard to give users a better experience while they visit any website thus it is giving preference to those sites that load faster.

Fewer number of plugins is one thing that everyone is doing to speed up but few other things like gzip compression and cleaning up database tables are important too and everyone should take these into consideration.

I would like to read such guides more from you over here. Thanks for the post

By: Jason Kelly

Jason Kelly — Sun, 30 Oct 2016 07:02:09 +0000

Nice and informative post. We can also speed up website by using inline css and javascript.

By: Swapnil Kharche

Swapnil Kharche — Fri, 28 Oct 2016 12:15:24 +0000

Really, we should speed up our site loading speed to beat our competitors in SERP. Your post will help newbie bloggers to speed up their blog loading speed. I have also optimized my blog as much as possible. Thanks for sharing the guide.

By: varshaa

varshaa — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 12:44:07 +0000

Nice article for bloggers like me who are struggling to reduce the response time of the website. Will try to implement these instructions and share my experience.

By: qwe

qwe — Mon, 29 Aug 2016 05:31:51 +0000

Thanks so much for this post!
I have no idea about page load times, but after reading your post and implementing I have increased my load score from 50’s to the 90’s !!!

Thanks again.

By: CreateaWebsiteNow Editorial

CreateaWebsiteNow Editorial — Thu, 25 Aug 2016 13:54:58 +0000

In reply to Steve Rice at Iflexion.

Hi Steve,

I haven’t noticed it correlations between Google Analytics and page speed, but I don’t think you should worry about it. GA is a part of Google and I don’t think they’ll punish you somehow for not getting 100% score while using GA.