How to Improve WordPress theme Speed in Seven Simple Steps?

WordPress is a wonderful platform where people can work and generate wonderful results in form of forums, websites, blogs, online institutions and much more. Thus, meanwhile using it, there occur a lot of problems which need to be fixed. They slow down the speed and in order to handle this issue one need to follow some simple steps and get better results.

a) Hosting Impact the Speed

There is always a need to choose a professional hosting service provider. This is necessary because it will be helpful in optimizing your WordPress website in the best way. A well respected hosting company will never provide their service at low cost and with a professionally finite set of resources. Sometimes, experts refer that a low cost of hosting refers to a low quality of service. That’s why one should never choose this type of hosting for their WordPress website. This will reduce their speed and impact on the performance of a website.

b) Impact of Image Optimization

If we look on a website, then the images are considered as one of the major elements. They are the biggest source of attractions for visitors. Every website needs to load in a quick time. Images are heavy and have a slight weight. This might affect the loading time of a website. Well, chosen and stylish images could be helpful in driving some traffic to a website. Moreover, there are a couple of features which one should keep in mind while using an image.

Use a cropped image

Don’t forget to resize if required

Use right dimensions of an image.

Don’t use heavy images

Never do compression which loses the pixels of an image

Never play with the quality of an image

There are two main WordPress plugins which you can use. Both of them are helpful in reducing the image size and giving a quality image. One of them is called as the pixel image editor. The other plugin is called WP Smush. Thus, all of these efforts will help you to increase the speed of your website.

c) Caching Plugins Required

Every website needs some relevant files in order to display in front of the users. These files get saved in the computer temporary storage. These statistic files are called as the ‘cache’ and saving them may response in getting the correct speed of a website.

d) Using CDN for your website

There is a CDN being used on every website. One need to use it. It helps in connecting the people geographically. This helps in reducing the response time and making a website work faster.

e) Using A Quality Theme

This is true that a WordPress theme has an impact on the performance of a website. Every website has an aesthetic design. This is being impacted by the theme. Thus, a quality theme with a professional CSS will never let a web site response to be slow.

f) Optimization of the database

MySQL database is the files which are used at the backend of a WordPress Theme. It stores the content. For example, if one wants to save the usernames, posts, blogs or comments then MYSQL is the basic source. If these are any irrelevant information in this, then it might affect the speed of a website. Thus, in order to make any website work faster its best to use a plugin like ‘WP-Optimize’ to check the relevancy of database.

g) Visitors Facing Loading Issue

There is a problem of ‘lazy loading’ being faced by people. There is a plugin used for resolving it, called as ‘lazy loads’. It helps in reducing the time and helps in facilitating the visitors with fast content.