Site Speed Matters

To make your website faster, prioritise compressing images, enabling caching, minifying CSS/JS files, and using a Content Delivery Network (CDN). Reduce HTTP requests by limiting plugins and using lightweight themes. These steps significantly reduce data transfer, improve server response times, and boost user experience.

AI Overview

To make your website faster,

prioritize compressing images, enabling caching, minifying CSS/JS files, and using a Content Delivery Network (CDN). Reduce HTTP requests by limiting plugins and using lightweight themes. These steps significantly reduce data transfer, improve server response times, and boost user experience. 

Key Steps to Speed Up Your Website:

• Optimise Images: Use compressed image formats like WebP or JPEG instead of large PNGs. Aim to keep images under 150 KB and remove unnecessary metadata using tools like ImageOptim.

• Enable Caching: Implement browser caching to store files locally for returning visitors, reducing server load.

• Use a CDN: Utilize a Content Delivery Network (like Cloudflare) to distribute static content across multiple global servers, reducing distance to users.

• Minify and Combine Files: Minify (remove whitespace/comments) and combine CSS, JavaScript, and HTML files to minimize HTTP requests.

• Enable GZIP Compression: Enable server-side GZIP compression to reduce data transfer size by up to 70%.

• Optimize Your Database: Clean up unused data, such as spam comments, trashed posts, and old revisions, to improve database querying speeds.

• Use a Lightweight Theme/Framework: Choose fast, lightweight themes (e.g., Astra, Cadence) that do not use heavy code.

• Reduce Plugins: Remove unnecessary plugins, as excessive plugins increase server load and reduce performance.

• Upgrade Hosting: Ensure your hosting environment is properly configured or upgrade to better hosting (e.g., VPS or dedicated) if your current provider is too slow. 

For tracking, use tools like Google PageSpeed Insights.