No one likes to waste time waiting for a website to open, so that, close to 40% visitors change their website if it takes more than 3 seconds to load.
A heavy loading website is a handicap, especially for the websites ofe-Commerce. Almost 80% of customers who are not satisfied with the performance of a website are less tempted to make purchases on it again.
Moreover, Google uses the loading speed of websites to rank in search results.
So what does it take to speed up the loading speed of your website ? In other words, what should you do to get your blog to open fast enough?
Here are 5 simple methods that will dramatically increase the loading speed of your blog and your ranking in search engine results.
1. Use an excellent Plugin WordPress caching
La cached involves storing certain files from your blog so that they are loaded only once, instead of each time a user visits it. Caching is especially useful for your visitors, as well as your subscribers who are used to visiting your blog.
W3 Total Cache is a Plugin WordPress of cached widely used by websites such as Mashable, Smashing Magazine or Web Designer Depot.
Le Plugin in question ensures a significant improvement in the performance of your blog (will your 10 blog once faster once the plugin is fully and correctly configured).
WP Super Cache is also a much easier to use alternative that does not need an expert to be configured.
2. Compress your images
Images are among the largest files on a blog. Thus, if they are not compressed, they can take a long time to load. Fortunately, there are suitable tools that will allow you to compress your images.
- WP Smush.it, automatically strips metadata from JPEG files and eliminates unused colors from indexed images.
- Tiny PNG is another tool that also removes unused colors for lossy compressions.
If you use a lot of images on your blog, you will probably need to use the Plugin WordPress jQuery Lazy Load.
Ce Plugin loads images gradually as the visitor scrolls down the page. This greatly increases the loading time of your pages.
3. Reduce the weight of your CSS and JavaScript files by compressing them
Instead of performing this compression manually, we recommend these tools:
WPMinify et W3 Total Cache that will allow you to perform these compression operations.
Here are our 8 WordPress plugins to optimize the speed of a website
4. Reduce http requests
Every time someone visits a page on your blog, the corresponding files are sent to that person's browser, including images, CSS files, and JavaScript files.
So if you have an HTML file, two CSS files, five JavaScript files and eight images, that's a total of 16 files that need to be loaded.
You can go for the simplification by combining JavaScript and CSS files. The section " Minify "In W3 Total Cache, allows you to add your JavaScript and CSS files, so that they are combined into one file.
5. Optimize the tables in your database.
Optimizing the tables in your database is like defragment your computer or change the oil in your car, this will help you free up space and keep your blog performance.
You can optimize tables in your database manually using phpMyAdmin or using a Plugin. WP-DBManager allows you to optimize, repair, back up and restore your database. You can also use WP-Optimize, which is another database cleaning and optimization tool.
Ce Plugin allows you to remove post revisions, comments in the spam queue, and delete unapproved comments in the trash.
So here are some steps you can take to reduce the loading time of your pages. Optimizing your blog can make a big difference, not only in the SEO, but also in the engagement of your users.
Other recommended resources
We also invite you to consult the resources below to go further in the grip and control of your website and blog.
- 8 WordPress BuddyPress plugins to boost your social network
- 10 WordPress plugins to use to manage advertising on your blog
- 10 WordPress plugins to create a directory on your blog
- 10 premium WordPress plugins from Booking and Booking
Conclusion
Here is ! That's it for this tutorial. These tips shouldn't be very complicated to implement. And for the effort you put in, you will have a blog that is much faster and your visitors will have a lot of fun browsing it.
However, do not hesitate to consult our resources, if you need more elements to carry out your projects of creation of Internet sites, by consulting our guide on the WordPress blog creation or the one on Divi: the best WordPress theme of all time.
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Hi Thierry,
Here are some great tips that I will do my best to implement.
Do you have any tutorials to suggest to me regarding the configuration of the cache plugin you suggest here, because the ones I have found so far are not exceptional?
I thank you in advance for your answer.
Sincerely,
Bruno
Hello Bruno,
I will try to do a tutorial on W3 total Cache.
Amcialement,
Thierry
Hello
You mention the W3 total cache plugin saying that it makes blogging 10 times faster when the plugin is fully and correctly configured.
My question is the following :
What are the settings to do on this plugin to properly configure it?
Thank you for your reply. I take this opportunity to thank you for your articles, rich in information.
For yourself
Good evening Marie,
We're going to do a tutorial on it.
Thank you!
See you soon