Optimise Website for Speed & Performance

Having a slow website is a common problem that many website owners have. There are some good workarounds for this problem which will help to speed up the website. Speed is critical to the success of any website, including those built with VictorThemes. Fortunately, there are plenty of ways to optimize the performance of your WordPress site and different tools like Google PageSpeed, GTmetrix to benchmark your site. 

There are three main elements to take into account to increase the speed of your site : use a solid  Hosting Service, Optimize your WordPress installation and use a Cache plugin to boost your site.

Hosting & Providers

  • The quickest win you can have with page speed, is upgrading from a cheap shared hosting provider to a better host. Cheap hosts are good for when you are starting out, but for ultimate performance you can’t match a solid hosting providers
  • Server Response Time (SRT): is the amount of time between the web browser requesting something from the server and the web server responding to that request back.
  • Time To First Byte (TTFB): is the amount of time a browser waits to receive a response from your server after a request. TTFB configured through the server.

Optimize Your WordPress Site

  • Optimize your site’s images - Graphic files tend to take up a lot of space, and optimizing yours can help your website load much faster. Before uploading your images, be sure to have them saved with the Save for Web option and that you have used optimization tools like Tiny PNG or JPEGMini . Once uploaded on the WordPress Media Library you can also use an amazing plugin like WP Smush.
  • Clean up your WordPress database - All the information that’s stored on your site has to go somewhere, and in most cases that ‘somewhere’ is your database. Over time, yours can become bloated and start handling requests too slowly unless you clean it up.
  • Combine and minify the CSS / JS resources - You can combine and minify the CSS and JS by installing cache plugin like  W3 Total Cache. 
  • Disable all un-needed plugins - If the plugins are not used, remove/deactivate it. It’s likely activated plugins, It will load several resources.
  • Using CDN -  CDN stands for Content Delivery Network. It is a method of distributing different assets like images and media files between different locations with the goal of reducing the main server load. This method boosts the speed of the website to a great extent. There are many CDN providers on the market. Like CloudFlare, MaxCDN and AWS.
  • Choosing the best hosting provider - The fact is if you try your best and implement all kinds of speed up techniques in your website but your hosting provider is bad, all your efforts are in lost. It is very important to choose a robust and reliable hosting provider to make your website work properly.
  • Implement a Cache plugin -  The most basic and very easy approach to enable caching is getting a plugin called W3 Total Cache. After activating the plugin it comes with a default set of settings which you can alter. To know more about improve Website speed & Performance :  Click Here 

Make Note :

If you using third party url's in your WordPress theme the page speed is calculated based on their server response too.

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