In this video, you’ll learn how to speed up your WordPress website in 3 simple steps.
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Google has used site speed as a ranking signal for desktop searches since 2010. And as of 2018, page speed became a ranking factor for mobile searches.
Even though speed improvements will only affect a small percentage of slow websites, faster page load times lead to better user experience and ultimately, more revenue.
So, there are a number of reasons why your website might load slowly. But the most common reasons that I’ve seen are due to slow connectivity, caching, page size, and sometimes more technical reasons like render blocking JS.
And the 3 steps in this video should help you get better performance from your site. But keep in mind that the things we did for this site won’t necessarily translate perfectly to your site.
This is because there are tons of things to consider when it comes to WordPress site speed like your theme’s code, specific plugins you might be using, server configuration, image file sizes and more.
Before you do anything, run your site through some site speed checking tools, like Google’s PageSpeed Insights, Pingdom, GTMetrix or our own Site Audit tool.
This will help you see what you need to improve.
The first thing we did was to switch DNS providers to Cloudflare’s free DNS service.
And you’ll learn how this works and why this is important in the video.
The next thing we did was purchase and install the WP Rocket plugin.
WP Rocket is an all-in-one site speed optimization plugin for WordPress. The plugin handles common page speed optimizations like caching, preloading, compression, and lazy loads images to name a few.
You’ll learn what you need to do after installing WPRocket on your site.
And finally, we optimized our images.
The simple solution is to compress your images using lossy or lossless compression. And there are some great plugins that’ll do this for you like ShortPixel and Imagify.
And these 3-steps gave us a huge improvement, as shown in the speed checking tools we used.
If you’re still unhappy with your site speed after making these optimizations, then you’ll likely need more custom work done for you. So you may want to consider removing plugins and scripts, switching themes, or hiring a developer to make the appropriate fixes.
#speedupyourwordpresswebsite #pagespeed #technicalseo
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:58 Common reasons that impact website’s load time
1:50 Run a test through page-speed testing tools
3:01 Switch to a fast DNS provider
5:23 Start with caching files
6:05 Optimize CSS files
7:41 Set up JS files loading
8:50 Optimize the media files
9:10 Set up preloading priority
9:49 Use CDN
11:09 Optimize your images
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Great info
… or build a site in Nuxt or Next and have decent database structure, a decent API without the garbage queries that come with WordPress by default 😅
I love the humor and personality of the creator in this video. It's so refreshing to see someone being authentic on YouTube.
spot on, ty
That is very simple and clear explanations of how site speed performance work. Great job ahref 😉
Thanks for sharing this amazing video. It was really helpful. But then, my WP Rocket plugin isn't showing Minify HTML and optimize Google fonts as shown in your video. What could have happened?
Do you also have to download and activate the Cloudflare plugin for it to work? Or is just doing the steps on the website enough for it to be active?
-How to improve website speed
-just use WP rocket bro
cmon man, can i have wp video where no one is advertising their shitty plugin
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Hi Helen? How are you dear?
i want to ask that I want to make a static blog post (that have 4k traffic potential) as a home page of my site. let me know is it okay. I think it will be easy to attract authority fast using this technique.
Sir you are a very good teacher and you have a unique style thanks sir for this informative video
This was a super great video. Really simple and so clear. Beginners will appreciate it. Thank you, you've done a great job with the editing as well. Looking forward to more tutorials like this.
8:39 – if minifing or defer js will broke site, is it possible to just turn that off and reverse minifying? Or if i will do that through wp rocket it will change files irreversibly? Or it will be enough to turn off wp rocket to load page as it was before using plugin?
Just the best. Thank you!
Can we do the same in CRAFT CMS
Nice video!!
This is the great video, I'm abir mahbub from Bangladesh, looking for video which can help me, but didn't find any video, after all find out your video, this helped me pretty much
If there is such a plugin that serves the purpose properly without doing any complex tasks, then obviously the plugin will be the first priority for everyone. As a user will recommend the most workable plugin, Next3 offload. It will meet your desires regarding increasing the speed of your website.
why are you just trying to sell us stuff. ?? ??
i had that 99%, but after some hours it dropped to 91 so i watched your video and it dropped to 88% 😡
Hi, does it help to go to a good hosting provider like the ones that use litespeed. Not sure what that means but they say it makes speed faster.
Bro thanksssssss…
I had issues with website speed, and now I tried WP rocket. The change is astounding! Thank you so much for your video.
Mine looks notNice tutorialng like the way you guys started it would be amazing if soone told how to get the multiple tracks
Dude.. my site stopped opening in Mobile after updating the Cloudflare nameservers!!!!!
Great video, im always looking how to speed up my websites.
3:57 some of the things in this book don't exist anymore
We will get girl for him soon and get him married.
It works, thank you 🙂
Well, thanks for the video its very hlepful. but when you use the WP Rocket your site will run faster though but ads from adsense will spend much time before loading ..how about that ? any suggestion on how to deal with that ?
How many of these steps are relevant to shopify?
So I've used imagify and it for sure makes a noticeable difference in quality. As a photographer I do not recommend any plugins because it's critical to show case your images with any artifacting caused by these so called "lossless compression"
Hey thank you for valuable guide. I have a question, what if we do have a website other than WordPress platform. Then how to improve website speed on mobile. Please share a link if any related videos already there.?
Between the plugin and updating my php on cpanel, my mobile score went from 17 to 86. Thanks so much for this video!
Great video! I immediately switched my DNS to cloudflare and installed WP Rocket.