{"id":138,"date":"2019-02-22T18:09:10","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T18:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mumbaiwebhosting.co.in\/portal\/?p=138"},"modified":"2019-03-08T03:11:08","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T03:11:08","slug":"how-to-speed-up-your-wordpress-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mumbaiwebhosting.co.in\/portal\/how-to-speed-up-your-wordpress-website\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Speed up your wordpress website"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Hi folks today we are going to see about How to Speed up your wordpress website .<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Making changes to our website configuration can be a doubtful for users especially for\u00a0 beginners.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

And this article will help us to gain some knowledge about How to Speed up your wordpress website\u00a0using simple and easy steps.Now let us see how to proceed.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Step 1: Install a WordPress Caching Plugin<\/h4>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

WordPress pages are \u201cdynamic.\u201d This means they\u2019re built on the fly every time someone visits a post or page on your website. To build your pages, WordPress has to run a process to find the required information, put it all together, and then display it to your user.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

This process involves a lot of steps, and it can really slow down your website when you have multiple people visiting your site at once.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

That\u2019s why we recommend every WordPress site use a caching plugin.\u00a0Caching can\u00a0make your WordPress site faster than before There are a lot of caching plugins available for WordPress and now\u00a0 we are going to see about\u00a0\u00a0W3\u00a0Total Cache\u00a0.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

It is one of the most popular caching plugins for WordPress. It improves your server performance by caching every aspect of your site and also offers content delivery network integrations.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Step 2: Optimize Images<\/h4>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Images bring life to your content and help boost engagement.\u00a0Researchers have found that using colored visuals makes people 80% more likely to read your content.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

But if your images aren\u2019t optimized, they could be hurting more than helping. In fact, non-optimized images are one of the most common speed issues we see on beginner websites.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Before you upload a photo directly from your phone or camera,\u00a0we recommend that you use photo editing software to optimize your images for web.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

In their original formats, these photos can have huge file sizes. But based on the\u00a0image file format\u00a0and the\u00a0compression\u00a0you choose in your editing software, you can decrease your image size by up to 5x.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

At WP Beginner, we only use two image formats: JPEG and PNG.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Now you might be wondering: what\u2019s the difference?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Well,\u00a0PNG\u00a0image format is uncompressed. When you compress an image it loses some information, so an uncompressed image will be higher quality with more detail. The downside is that it\u2019s a larger file size, so it takes longer to load.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

JPEG, on the other hand, is a compressed file format which slightly reduces image quality, but it\u2019s significantly smaller in size.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

So how do we decide which image format to choose?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n