How to Speed Up Your WordPress Website (Simple Guide)

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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[SharonKyle]

I am not a developer. I set up my own Wordpress site and have posted to it daily for more than a dozen years. I rely on Youtube to teach me how to do things like improve page speed, domain authority, etc. Your explanations are, by far, better than any I've seen in 12 years!! thank you

[stan-woods]

After MONTHS of searching for ANY type of solution, I finally found you.
You have NO idea how much this helped. From 18 seconds to 3! Thank You a lot!

[samirsamir]

this is what we call a "high quality content", thank you

[abeytusshar]

My portal's speed went from 64 to 91 only by following the cloudflare step. Love you Man !

[candiskull]

First up, thanks for this beautifully done tutorial. You're so professional. I followed all your steps yet can't get nowhere near 90%.

[digitalartwithvladislavray]

I clicked because of the thumbnail. Awesome thumbnail by the way :)

[shes_Shira]

I had issues with website speed, and now I tried WP rocket. The change is astounding! Thank you so much for your video.

[CaerelsJan]

The part about the DNS server was superwell explained! Very happy to have seen that performance ranking of DNS providers. Apparently the same website also shows how fast the DNS providers respond in different locations.

[_RafayVlogz]

Before it was 63% performance, now it is 99% performance
Thank you ❤️ my dear .. for helping me alot

[jenatunnesajeny]

Gone straight from 42 to 98 for mobile in page speed insight! Thanks a lot!

[scotts]

It's always depressing to watch a tutorial like this and realize you're already doing all of the things they recommend, and still have lousy site speed.

[houseandhomesittersltd]

Awesome tutorial. What a gift you have in explaining complex issues in such a simple manner! Thank you 🙏🏼

[expertmovers]

Thank you so much Sam you are a charm I went on hiring a freelancer for only this purpose you know how much she asked 210$ oh my gosh and i got best results in 39$ that's hilarious. It really worked for me

[sicongroup]

I have tested every test - you are the guy in fact this is more money for me jst to optimized people WordPress site

[Web]

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.

[SpanishINAtlanta]

What a great simple easy to understand tutorial!!! Muchas gracias dude! Video editing and visual elements while explaining the concepts were on point. Small businesses like mine can't afford to hire expensive help so learning some of the basics is essential. I appreciate your work!

[ildarkhakimov]

really impressed with your youtube channel, you guys are consistently producing super high quality content and Sam is great at speaking too

[patrikzimmermann]

You located Germany in Poland 😃 Great video, thanks a lot

[lastofuspartii]

Such good animations and explanations. You deserve more views

[ExploringLife]

Excellent presentation... Precise and straight, good voice and sentences, no extras mktg words, extraordinary explanation with few words... Good content for non_tech users... Thanks a lot