{"id":463,"date":"2022-05-30T17:16:11","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T11:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wpoven.com\/?p=463"},"modified":"2022-05-30T17:16:11","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T11:46:11","slug":"why-is-your-wordpress-site-slow-and-how-to-speed-it-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wpoven.com\/blog\/why-is-your-wordpress-site-slow-and-how-to-speed-it-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is your WordPress site slow and how to speed it up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><strong>1.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>HOSTING<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>First and the most important factor is the Hosting you choose. While choosing a WordPress hosting you should consider the following points, which many people overlook \u00a0:\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Type of Hosting : The first step towards have a fast web-site is choosing the right host. There are 3 main kinds of hosting :<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>A.\u00a0Free Hosting<\/strong> : \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Best things in life are free ? NOT when your choosing hosting.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Pros<\/span> :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s Free.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Cons<\/span>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Limited or no Security options, Database support and Technical support.<\/li>\n<li>Slow<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>B. Shared Hosting <\/strong>: A\u00a0shared host might\u00a0<em>seem<\/em>\u00a0like a bargain but before you get tempted consider the following :<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Pros<\/span> :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Low Cost<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Cons<\/span> :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Security is compromised.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Restricted Support.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Restriction on traffic volume.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>C. Dedicated Hosting<\/strong> : This is the fastest out of the three but costs more.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Pros<\/span> :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Handles high traffic easily.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Multiple domain names.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Powerful database support.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Cons<\/span> :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Price<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>In a nutshell : The best hosting you can go for is a Managed dedicated Hosting<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><em><strong>2. \u00a0<\/strong><\/em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>PLUGINS<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Plugins are great. They offer wonderful functionality to your site, but having too many plugins can be a bane. Follow the checklist below to ensure your plugins are not slowing you down :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\">Only have plugins which are\u00a0absolutely\u00a0necessary\u00a0for the functioning of your site. <\/span><\/li>\n<li>Delete all the Deactivated and the plugins which are not in use.<\/li>\n<li>Avoid using plugins where you can substitute code. For example, there are many ad-plugins out there but you can also place an image tag (&lt;img&gt;) in the text widget and have it display as an advertisement.<\/li>\n<li>and the most simplest and basic point to keep in mind, make sure all your plugins are updated and latest versions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><em><strong>3.<\/strong><\/em> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>CACHE<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Caching plugins will increase the site speed by saving and returning the most recent version of the site and thus decreasing load time. A caching plugin will make the biggest difference in your site&#8217;s speed and performance. There are many caching plugins out there, but we recommend <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wpbase-cache\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WPBASE Cache<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><em><strong>4.<\/strong><\/em> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>OPTIMIZE IMAGES<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Another big reason for many site&#8217;s slow speed. Many people keep unrealistic image sizes which take forever to load. Smush.it from Yahoo can be used to optimize your images, by greatly reducing the size of the image and keeping the quality of the image to be same. You could also use<a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-smushit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> WP-Smushit<\/a> plugin, which automatically optimizes the images while uploading.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><em><strong>5.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><em>OPTIMIZE\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><em><strong>DATABASE<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Optimizing the Database can be done in 2 ways :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\">First, you can manually optimize the Database from your Database admin software (such as PHPMy-admin and Adminer etc.)<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Second, there are various plugins like <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-optimize\/installation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WP-Optimize<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-dbmanager\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WP-DBmanager<\/a>, which adequately.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><em><strong>6.<\/strong><\/em> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>DISABLE &#8220;Hot-Linking&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Hot-Linking\u00a0is the use of a linked object, often an image, from one site into a web page belonging to a second site. The second site is said to have an inline link to the site where the object is located. This way the second site saves its server resources and puts burden on the first site&#8217;s server. You can ensure this does not happen to your site by adding the following code into your <em>.htaccess<\/em> file : <em><strong>Please backup your .htaccess file before making any changes to it.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<pre class=\"lang:sh decode:true\">#disable hotlinking of images with forbidden or custom image option\r\nRewriteEngine on\r\nRewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$\r\nRewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http:\/\/(www.)?your-domain-name-here.com\/.*$ [NC]\r\n#RewriteRule .(gif|jpg)$ \u2013 [F]\r\n#RewriteRule .(gif|jpg)$ http:\/\/www.your-domain-name-here.com\/stealingisbad.gif [R,L]<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><em><strong>\u00a07. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">OPTIMIZE THE HOME-PAGE<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<p>In the WordPress admin area, go to &#8220;<em><strong>Settings -&gt; Reading<\/strong><\/em>&#8221; option page and keep &#8220;Blog pages show at most&#8221; field set to a small number like 10, and on the same page you will also find &#8220;<em><strong>For each article in a feed, show<\/strong><\/em>&#8221; field, keep it as &#8220;<em><strong>summary<\/strong><\/em>&#8221; to decrease the site load time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpoven.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/wpspeed1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-492\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wpoven.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/wpspeed1-300x207.png\" alt=\"wpspeed1\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Keep the number of widgets on the Home-page to a bare minimum. Do not keep any widgets that are not necessary, as this might also increase the page load time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Even after following all the steps and your site is still slow, then contact us on <span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\">contact@wpoven.com<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1.\u00a0 HOSTING<br \/>\nFirst and the most important factor is the Hosting you choose. While choosing a WordPress hosting you should consider the following points, which many people overlook \u00a0:\u00a0 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpoven.com\/blog\/why-is-your-wordpress-site-slow-and-how-to-speed-it-up\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More <i class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why is your WordPress site slow and how to speed it up&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ub_ctt_via":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Vikrant Datta","author_link":"https:\/\/www.wpoven.com\/blog\/author\/vikrant\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wpoven.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wpoven.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wpoven.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wpoven.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wpoven.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wpoven.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7948,"href":"https:\/\/www.wpoven.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions\/7948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wpoven.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wpoven.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}