Thread: Ideas to speed up your WordPress website

You have only a few seconds to capture a person's attention, When he/she lands on your site for the first time and convince them to hang around.
If your sites takes long time to load.Most people will leave your site. google also includes site speed in it's ranking algorithm.


Below I have mentioned some ways to speed up your website

1. Select a good hosting
2. Choose a solid (lightweight) framework/theme
3. Choose an efficient caching plugin
4. Use a content delivery network (CDN) for your site
5. Use optimize images
6. Optimize homepage to load quickly
7. Optimize the WordPress database
8. Disable leeching and hot-linking for the content
9. Includes an expires header to static resources
10. Regulate gr-avatar images

Friends, If you have more tips Share them below!

Originally Posted by Bhavya

You have only a few seconds to capture a person's attention, When he/she lands on your site for the first time and convince them to hang around.
If your sites takes long time to load.Most people will leave your site. google also includes site speed in it's ranking algorithm.


Below I have mentioned some ways to speed up your website

1. Select a good hosting
2. Choose a solid (lightweight) framework/theme
3. Choose an efficient caching plugin
4. Use a content delivery network (CDN) for your site
5. Use optimize images
6. Optimize homepage to load quickly
7. Optimize the WordPress database
8. Disable leeching and hot-linking for the content
9. Includes an expires header to static resources
10. Regulate gr-avatar images

Friends, If you have more tips Share them below!

Adding few more points:
1) Disable comments, RSS,Pingback if not necessary.
2) Optimize your .htaccess file for speed up the cache. headers, compression, server side tweaks.
3) Tweak the php.ini file with increasing memory, post size, upload size
4) use CDN such as MaxCDN, Cloudflare
5) Use the right plugins for optimize the performance ( WP Super cache, WTC,etc)

Checkout my full tips from here : Wordpress Performance Optimization Tips

Originally Posted by Beacon

Adding few more points:
1) Disable comments, RSS,Pingback if not necessary.
2) Optimize your .htaccess file for speed up the cache. headers, compression, server side tweaks.
3) Tweak the php.ini file with increasing memory, post size, upload size
4) use CDN such as MaxCDN, Cloudflare
5) Use the right plugins for optimize the performance ( WP Super cache, WTC,etc)

Checkout my full tips from here : Wordpress Performance Optimization Tips

Thanks for sharing these tips and your Wordpress Performance Optimization Tips post here. It's a very informative post, It's really helpful for the beginners.