WordPress is an extremely good platform for blogging well coded and light. However, to improve website functionality, a lot of plugins are used. Sometimes, these plugins are poorly coded and are not updated to match up with WordPress updates and so the have compatibility issues. Messing up with WordPress installations by installing tons of low-quality plugins can be a huge problem.

Now, let’s re-focus our attention on the main issue. You need to understand that speeding your WordPress website is not just limited to having good plugin or running on a good web host, there are tweaks to performance plugins and the WordPress installation itself as well other practices that will enhance the performance of your WordPress website in terms of speed.

There are a few techniques you can always leverage on to optimize and speed up WordPress sites. We will have to look at a few of these techniques you can use to improve the performance of your WordPress website:

#1: Consider A Good Web Host

Optimizing our WordPress website will be more useful to you only after you have checked and have been sure that the slow speed is not a problem with your web host. We have had the opportunity of optimizing websites for other people not necessarily hosted on our platform. In some cases, we found that some web hosts will load thousands of websites on a single shared server and the server becomes extremely slow

Before you choose a web host, it is always a good idea to check up popular reviews on Google and web hosting forums.

.#2: Choose a Fast Theme/Framework

Some WordPress themes are actually not so impressive when it comes to speed. Working with a WordPress theme that is not so well coded can be a problem. You need check up what other users of any theme or framework have to say about it before you decide to use or not to use. If you choose to use a theme that is packed with lots of additional features that you don’t need, it’ll negatively impact your site performance.

What is a Fast Theme

Generally speaking, if a theme loads in less that 2 seconds, then it can be taken as good speed. Below 3 seconds is not so good and anything above seconds should be considered problematic. Be mindful of theme coding - too much PHP, JavaScript, Iframe isn’t good for your site’s speed.

WordPress themes bt default are incredibly well-coded, light-weight, very fast and easily customizable. If you can handle a little bit of code or hire a developer, choose one of those to build something great on top of them.

#3: Install A Caching Plugin

One of the most effective ways, after having to run on a good web host, that will certainly improve the performance of yyour WordPress wwebsite in terms of load times is to install a caching plugin. As soon as you install a plugin like W3 Total Cache or WP Super Cache, you’ll be able to tell that your site loads faster.

Having a plugin to handle your website cache helps speed up your website tremendously. The cache files are lie static pages served to users and visitors to your website. Instead of loading your entire website along with the functionalities loaded on the site everytime a visitors comes by, the server will serve a cached copy speedily and that speeds up the load time. Caching greatly reduces MySQL database access, number of PHP requests, server access for static resources, and even HTTP requests (in case of combining multiple files into one).

Read full blog post from source on the Todhost Blog: https://www.todhost.com/knowledgebase/826/What-you-should-know-about-optimizing-your-WordPress-website-for-speed.html

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