If you have any kind of online presence, and you’re trying to think from your visitors’
perspective, you gotta admit: nobody wants to wait for more than 2-3 seconds for a website
to load, right? So, be it an online store or a personal blog, a great website speed
is always a must. But how? Hi guys, this is Ruben, the how-to guy at
10Web, an innovative managed WP hosting platform. I’m here to walk you through the exact steps
you need to take to get a lightning-speed WordPress website in 2020!
In this video, first we’ll talk about why speeding up your site is so important and
what you should avoid if you wanna succeed. Then we’ll go through some tools and resources,
and talk about the easiest way to optimize your website performance.And if you’re a
big fan of awesome deals, you should absolutely check out our 14-Day free trial of managed
hosting, through the link in the description. You can move your website to 10Web and automatically
get a 95+ PageSpeed Score without making any changes to your existing website. And all
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drop me a comment below telling me exactly how important website speed is for you as
a visitor or website manager. So, let’s get started. Why is website speed
so important in the first place? Well, for one, nobody wants to wait forever
for anything right and your visitors – your potential clients – are no exception. Stats
show that 40% of visitors drop websites if they take more than 3 seconds to load. You
can see how this increases your bounce rate and decreases your conversion rates, right?
So, you do wanna make sure your website is pleasant to explore and a great part of it
making your website as fast as possible. Another major reason why website speed is so crucial
is that it’s an important factor of Google algorithms and it significantly affects your
search engine rankings. That’s right, if you wanna make your website rank high on Google,
you have to make sure that it provides a great user experience and high speed on both your
mobile and desktop versions of your website. Now let’s talk about the things that you
should absolutely avoid if you wanna speed up your website.
Number one is a big number of heavy images on your page. Since texts don't weigh much,
images and intricate designs are those things that can slow down your website. But, of course,
instead of sacrificing aesthetics, you can just try to make those images lighter – but
more on that later. The second thing is not using caching services.
Now caching is when a repeated request for the same content gets served from the “cached”/stored
memory, speeding up the loading process. Number three is messy bulky code or JavaScript
plugin issues. If your code is not minified, your CSS is not optimized, and you’re using
a bunch of WP plugins that are not compatible or outdated or just simply badly written,
your website will slow down for sure! Number four is unnecessary redirects. If your
visitor has to go from one URL address to another one and another one, it’ll take
a while until they get to the desired page which will undermine their overall experience.
And last but not least, a very common way of getting a slow website is going with a
bad hosting provider that doesn’t have enough data centers, or sharing a server with a bunch
of other sites. If you do that...don’t be surprised if your website doesn’t perform
well. Ok, now let’s move on to listing a few tools
and resources for testing your website speed because you need to know what you’re dealing
with before you start working on it. The most popular tool is GTmetrix, to which
I’ll leave you a link in the description. This is a completely free service for analyzing
your website’s speed and performance and getting tips on how to improve them.
You’ll get a separate score for each page․ And you should be looking for here is an A
grade, which is anything above 90 – and below you’ll see some practical recommendations,
like to “Optimize images.” or “remove unused CSS”
Other notable tools similar to GTmetrix are Pingdom, Google pagespeed Insights, and 10Web
speed optimization service. So, now that you know what you should look
for in terms of speed, here’s the big reveal: The easiest and the most affordable way to
optimize your website speed in 2020 is to move it to 10Web. And here’s why:
Every website speeds up when you move it to 10Web.And that is due to our speed optimization
service that guarantees your website a 95+ PageSpeed score.
10Web has data centers on four continents, so your users will be able to pull data from
the location closest to them. 10Web will host your website on Google Cloud,
meaning that your website’s data will be completely isolated from its neighbors. Hosting
infrastructure is very important for having a speedy website.
Our platform also includes a free image optimization service which is the best on the market. 10Web
includes an advanced caching service. And all essential plugins and services that work
seamlessly together without slowing down your website. Also you will get 40+ speed-optimized
website templates you can then customize however you like.The platform automatically performs
JS, HTML and CSS minification and compression and implements lazy loading.And finally, when
the trial ends hosting a website on cloud with 10Web will cost you just 10 dollars a
month for 1 website and 6 dollars a month if you wanna host ten websites. This is basically
shared hosting prices, with special emphasis on website speed optimization. And No hidden
or extra costs. Now let’s sum it up: To avoid losing your visitors because of a slow
website and climb higher in Google rankings, you need to optimize your images, minify your
code, avoid using too many redirects and incompatible plugins, and, most importantly, choose the
right hosting provider. As a managed hosting solution on Google Cloud
we at 10Web put speed optimization in our top priorities. So, the best, quickest, and
most affordable thing you can do to speed up your WordPress website is to move it to
10Web. So, If you’re still with me, why don’t
you get started with our 14 Day free trial and test our services yourself. Get that 95+
PageSpeed score in a snap of a finger and start growing your site with 10Web!
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