Getting a WordPress site to load in milliseconds is not impossible.
And no, it's not about buying a super expensive hosting plan.
It's about optimizing and using the right plugins to accomplish this.
What I'm going to do in this video is I'm going to show you my main site and how I'm
actually optimizing it to get a loading speed of around 500 milliseconds.
So that's almost half a second.
Let's go check out my desktop right now.
This is my WordPress site and it's my main site.
It's sasmaster. N etand this is where I get the speeds
and you can go ahead and test it out yourself to see if I'm actually saying
the truth or not because you're going to see that it's fast.
Okay, first thing I would get started.
It's not plugins, it's the DNS.
The DNS that I use is Cloudflare.
This is where my speed gains begin, because getting a fast DNS to resolve
the site from loading is one of the crucial things for the site.
Now for the settings, I would go into speed,
go into optimization, and this is what I have enabled.
Oh, be aware, this is the free plan
from Cloudflare, so I'm not even paying for this.
I've selected Auto Minify and I've enabled these.
I didn't enable these even though they are
a good option, but it will depend on the theme and the plugins that you're using.
If you can enable these without having a page speed drag, then enable these.
These are things that you have to test
and check to see if the speed is going to be better.
Like I said, you're going to enable these, you're going to go into your page speed,
do some tests and see if it actually did a benefit for it or not.
So you can enable these or disable them.
In my case, I disabled these.
Also, Rocket Loader is great, but I didn't enable that.
Okay, so right now I only have enabled these, the auto minify for the speed.
And for the cash settings, these are also important.
I went to configuration and show you what I've done.
Catch level is standard, browse catch for hours.
I configured, what else?
Quilters, hence I didn't enable these.
I have several of these disabled because I have issues with the sites.
So it's providing me less page speed gains than what I get.
But test these out.
If you can enable these, these are a super great option.
So this is where I would get started.
Next, I would jump into the plugins.
Now, some of the plugins that I use are
paid, but you can grab the free ones and you can test around with them.
So the first thing I would recommend is a cash plugin.
I'm using WP Rocket and I'm going to show you my settings.
Now, be aware that I have several plugins
installed on this and it's not affecting the speed on my side.
So some of the people might say, hey, avoid installing these plugins,
avoid doing this because the less plugins you have, the faster it's going to load.
That's what most people would say.
And in some cases it is,
but I use an additional plugin that disables them in certain places.
I'll go through that one in a bit.
Let's get started with my cash plugin.
Now, if you don't want to pay for a cash plugin, go ahead and use...
Oh, I selected the wrong one, WP Rocket.
Go ahead and select a free one.
There's several ones available that are free.
It's just a question of testing and enabling and disabling.
So for my settings, let me show you really quickly.
This is what I have enabled, File Optimization.
This is the main settings for the optimization.
This is where the changes are going to come into hand.
So the File Optimization for the CSS and JS.
Now, this is what I have enabled. Check this out.
Let's draw a script.
All these are enabled.
And again, I do recommend...
Oh, this is actually new.
One click exclusion. This is cool.
So that wasn't available before.
But this is what I have enabled.
Be aware that you have to enable,
clear your cache, and test the site if it doesn't break something.
But because these create really big changes.
It might break a plugin, some of the things might not load,
or the page might load crazy, and that's because of these settings.
Enable and disable to see what works best for you.
During these enablements,
you do check out the page speed test and all those settings.
Now I also have the media, nothing enabled here.
The preload is enabled, so active preloading and enable link preloading.
That means that it's going to preload some pages so it already catches them.
If you don't enable this, that means that when someone loads
the page for the first time, that's when it's going to catch it.
But if I have enabled this, it's going to do it previously.
You don't have to wait for someone to actually visit the site to catch it.
That's the main settings for this.
I do have the CDN enabled and this is something that I'm using.
I am using Bunny net for the CDN, this one.
I'll go into that one in a bit.
But I do have it enabled inside
of the cash plug in, so I don't have to install an additional
plug in to enable my Bunny CDN, which is the content delivery network.
I'll get to that one in a bit.
And for the add ons, I only have the Cloudflor addon enabled.
Why?
Because I'm using the Cloudflor DNAS, so it ties in together.
In case I could tell you the cash, it's also going to clear it over there.
That is for that plug in.
Another plug in that I use for the speed optimization is WP Shifty.
Now, before I show you this one,
I need to disable my security because it won't load it if I have it enabled.
I'll disable Word friends just for now. Okay, there we go.
I'll be able to jump into my settings for WP Shifty.
Wp Shifty does big changes and that's why I have to disable the firewall.
But I make the changes and enable it again.
What WP 50 does, I think it's pretty amazing because what
it does, it disables plug ins that don't need to load in certain pages.
Let me show you this one.
This is my front page and I'll edit this one.
You're going to see that's super easy to use and super easy to set up.
This is the main page. It's loading here.
I have a live view of the site and I can disable or enable plug ins.
Why would I do this?
Let's just say that I installed several
plug ins, like, I don't know, link whisper, snacks, word popular posts.
I need these plug ins, but to load in the post pages
for the deals, but I don't need it for the homepage.
I don't need it for the contact page.
I don't need it for several pages.
And what this does is it's going to avoid
it from letting it load in those pages and it gives me a super speed benefit.
So let's just say I disable Elementor just for testing purposes.
And obviously the site breaks.
This is not how it should look because I have an Elementor section inside of there.
I'll enable it because I don't want to do it and boom, our site is back to normal.
You can enable and disable these to see
what you don't need to load in this specific page.
You can do so for different type of situations.
For example, I could disable it and check if it's looking good on the phone or not.
Now that's for the plugins.
That's the whole plugin, it's going to be disabled.
But then you also have access to the CSS of the plugins that you left on and you
can also disable things that you don't need from that specific plugin.
So for example, I left Elementor on,
but maybe I don't need one of these CSS files to load on the homepage,
so I can disable it or overwrite it to give me that speed benefit.
So let's start s files loading on the side, faster it's going to be.
Just consider that.
And same thing goes with the JavaScript files.
So you have your core files,
your own known, the Bimber from the theme that I'm using, etc.
And you can disable what you don't need.
Again, disable it and check if it's not affecting your site.
Also test it on live, etc.
And if it works good, then you leave it disabled.
And that's one less thing that you have
to load on your site, which gives you this page speed benefit that I have right now.
Okay?
So like I said, even if you are on a shared hosting plan,
you're still going to get that page speed benefits.
Okay? So that's the WP 51.
And by the way, I'll leave the links for all of these
in case you want to grab it and use the same settings that I'm using.
Okay, what else do I use for the page speed?
So for the plugins, I use those two.
Okay, so it's the cash and WP 50,
which removes certain files from loading that I don't need.
But then comes into hand the CDN, which is the content delivery network.
For that, I am using Bunny net.
Be aware that you can use other services if you'd like, but this is my favorite
because it's super inexpensive and basically it does a great job.
How does it work?
Okay, I added the link, remember, in my cash plug in.
Here in the settings, my WP Rocket, I didn't have to install the Bunny net
plugin, but if you want to do so, you can do it through there.
In the CDN, I've added the link that it uses.
What it's going to do is enable it through there.
Content Library Network is going to load the file nearest to where someone is.
Let's just say that your shared hosting or
BPS is located in Los Angeles, but someone in Japan is visiting your site.
It doesn't have to reach over to Los Angeles to see the files.
What Boneynet is going to do is, Hey, I have a location near Tokyo or Australia.
I'll pull the files from there because
it's closer and it's going to make it even faster.
For example, for this, my settings for the perma cash, I have it enabled everywhere.
You can see the points where it's going to load from.
Like I said, if someone is in Japan,
somewhere in Japan, it's going to load the files from there.
It's going to serve it really quickly.
Instead of going all the way
to Los Angeles for the files, it's going to load it from here.
If they're in Europe, I have all these locations available enabled here.
There's also the other options that I have is the Bunny net.
Bunny net optimizer,
I have this also enabled, which will optimize the images for me.
It's going to load with web page images, which is what Google page speed loves.
If you don't have that enabled, it's going to give you, for example,
I got this, it should be loading it, but it's not doing it right now.
Something is not loading there, but if it loads it with WebP, Google loves it.
I'm not sure why I didn't grab it,
but if it did, I would get a page speed of 98 here.
Well, it's actually a score, not a page speed.
You can enable here.
I don't have Minify or CSS or JavaScript because I'm doing that with WP Rocket.
These are the settings that I have.
I'm using also storage from Bunny net.
Like I said, I'm going to show you the options that I use.
This is what I'm using for SaaS Master net, which is HSSD for the storage.
A gain, it helps me out.
Let me show you the replication.
It helps me load the files from these destinations.
Aside from the content delivery network, I also have the storage replication.
Again, it's going to load from all these
sections instead of loading from my hosting plan.
It also helps me lower the bandwidth usage
from my hosting plan and it's going to improve it with this because it's going
to load from here and not from a hosting plan.
Those are the settings that I use.
Like I said, you can certainly get away
with the shared hosting plans or the BPS plans from Hostinger.
You'll get really great page speed loading times with these hosting plans.
You don't have to buy a super expensive one to accomplish it.
You just have to take the time
and optimize your site with the settings that I've shown you.
I just recommend the plugins that I'm using.
But like I said, you can get away using
free ones that are available in WordPress already.
If you add new, go to cash, for example,
you'll see a bunch of plug ins that they have available.
For example, this is a great plugin.
This is also a great plugin.
You can certainly get away getting great
page speed improvements using these plugins,
and you can use a free version, totally free.
But there you go.
I do hope you take the time to improve
your WordPress siteand take these tips to improve your page speed.
And if you want to test my site, go ahead and test my page, which is SaaSmaster.
N ed. And you'll see that you'll get really
great results unless I'm working on it and I'm doing some different things on it.
But if not, you're going to get great piece speeds.
But there you go.
That's the wrap for this video and see you later.