Does your WP website take ages to load and you want to speed it up well you're
not alone hey there I'm Anna at 10Web a managed WordPress hosting platform powered by
Google cloud and in today's video I'm gonna share 10 practical tips you can
use to optimize the speed of your WordPress website by the way if you're
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tips guys don't worry I'm gonna share the easiest way to optimize your
WordPress website in 2020 right away so the easiest way to speed up your
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95 plus PageSpeed core looks cool right so now guys let's go to the first tip
number one choose a good and reliable wordpress host before you even think
about optimizing your WordPress website ask yourself this question is my site
hosted on a good web host because there is nothing more important for speed than
choosing the right hosting provider remember that shared hosting is not a
good option because sharing a server with other websites can lead to
clogging up CPU and RAM if you want to know more details on why you shouldn't
choose shared hosting I will put a video in the description so that you can check
it out later there's a hosting provider that keeps your site data on cloud has
uptime of 99.99% and uses nginx fast CGI caching Linux containers and newest
versions of PHP to reach ultimate website speed in other words go with 10Web
or other cloud hosting like WPEngine or Kinsta Tip number 2 when it
comes to selecting themes and templates you should keep in mind a simple truth
it is better to go with the simplest and lightest template or theme as the
minimalism is definite winner here don't just base your decision on
aesthetics you also should consider templates that are SEO friendly
responsive and optimized for mobile integrated way to drag and drop builders
and compatible with other plugins and service factors for your information we
at 10Web provide 40-plus designer made and mobile-friendly templates they are
integrated with Elementor the most popular web page builder for WordPress
websites so you can easily customize whichever parts you want
number three use CDN content delivery network which is basically a network of
geographically spread out servers CDN provides with better loading and
protects your site from hackers and malware attacks but not all the web
sites need to use CDN you only need to use CDN if you are managing a
high-traffic web site and the most popular city and services for WordPress
2020 are CloudFlare MaxCDN Amazon AWS and KeyCDN at 10Web we suggest using
CDN only in the case if the site visitors are from around the world
another tip is caching and what is caching all about it's simply when data
is stored on the visitors hard drive when they visit the site for the first
time and when they visit the site for the second time the data loads
significantly faster most good providers offer caching services but if you're
still using a host that doesn't don't worry you can use a lot of third party
plugins like WP Rocket, W3 Total Cache or WP Super Cache if you're a 10Web
user caching service is activated by default
tip five is the image optimization needless to say images are the most
engaging content of your website but images also tend to be pretty heavy
therefore you need to use automatic image optimization image optimization is
when you make the images lighter without changing its quality in any way
noticeable to the human eye the good thing about most image optimization
services is that they let you automatically compress images you upload
to your WordPress website by the way 10Web image optimizer comes
for free and you can also convert images to WebP format for supporting
browsers tip number 6 never underestimate the power of the right
diagnosis depending on how often you change your website in a way that
matters you need to perform regular checkups for example if you're at the
very beginning of your journey you need to check up your website once a week but
if things are more or less settled with your website you can check up your site
performance just once a month minify scripts when writing HTML CSS and
JavaScript developers usually use comments spacing and well named
variables to make both the code and the markup readable it's supposed to help
others who may later work on the project while it's a certain plus in the
development phase lengthy scripts are inconvenient when it comes to serving
your web pages well you see servers and browsers can read file content without
comments and well-structured code which creates unnecessary network traffic with
no functional benefit that's why it is common practice to minify scripts while
you may minify the cause yourself manually it is recommended that you use
one of the many plugins specially created for that purpose minification
can reduce file size by around 60 percent greatly accelerating your site
as a result
another tip is to reduce comments per page sure it's a great thing to get a
lot of attention in the comments section of your blog post but a lot of comments
can also slow down your website so if you want to reduce the comments shown
per page you go to settings then choose discussion and choose the box that says
break comments into pages at the default is 50 but you can choose any number of
comments shown per page my next tip to you is don't embed video directly there
is no way you can upload a video to your home page without losing speed if you
embed the video directly to your WordPress interface you will use up too
much bandwidth every time the video is played and this will decrease the load
speed of your server and even if you decide to add a video via YouTube or
Vimeo or another third-party service you'll be adding seven extra calls for
the video so don't use a video on your landing page unless you absolutely have
to and the last tip for you guys today is don't embed Google Maps keep in mind
that a page with a Google map will get twenty google map related requests out
of eighty four it receives that's definitely half a second more loading
time if you can save Google Maps as a JPEG or PNG and uploaded to your Contact
Us page that will definitely save your visitors 30 valuable seconds of waiting
time so guys that's it for today if you have missed any tip or want to review
them again I have left timestamps in the description so that you can go back and
check them and remember that you can use ten web speed optimization feature to
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with us in the comments down below take care and I'll see in another video