Open a web page after three seconds of waiting for no movement, it is estimated that many visitors have silently clicked the fork. Slow loading website, not only "card", but also let the traffic and orders fly away the invisible killer.WordPress The powerful and easily slowed down by images, plugins, and themes. If your website is getting slower and slower, don't rush to change the server, try these 5 practical optimization methods below first to make the website run smoother.

1. Change a reliable caching plugin

WordPress itself does not come with a caching mechanism, so every time you visit the page has to be re-grabbed from the database, rendering, time-consuming and resource-consuming. The solution is to add a layer of caching, so that the common page directly "saved", the next time you open the page will be able to load fast.

Two plugins are recommended:

• WP Rocket(Paid): Full-featured, easy to use, supports page caching, delayed loading, database cleanup, and a whole host of other optimizations.

• LiteSpeed Cache(Free, server support required): close results WP RocketThe LiteSpeed panel is a great choice for sites that use pagodas or LiteSpeed panels.

Turn on page caching, lazy loading of images, and CSS/JS merge compression, and you'll see the speedup immediately.

2. Streamline unnecessary plug-ins

More plug-ins do not equal more power, and some plug-ins with duplicate functionality and poor quality can slow down theresponsivenessand may also conflict with each other. A typical example is multiple SEO orpage constructionPlugins stack up and are extremely resource intensive.

Recommendation:

• Keep the number of plug-ins to 15 or less;
• Disable plugins that are not in use, not just "deactivate" them, but preferably just uninstall them;
• Check to see if any plugins are taking up a lot of memory with the Query Monitor plugin.

3. Images are not compressed and the site gets stuck

Many newbies directly upload several MB of high-resolution images, and a single image can drag down the whole page. The solution to this problem is not difficult.

There are two recommended compression methods:

• Native compression: Use a plugin such as Smush,ShortPixel batchOptimized images.;
• Compression before uploading: Use TinyPNG, Squoosh and other tools to compress the image size to less than 100KB before uploading.

If you have a lot of site images, consider using the WebP format, which is small and clear.

4. Using specialized themes and lightweight builders

Some themes, although they look fancy, have heavily bloated code and load very slowly. Try to choose a theme that has a clear structure and prioritizes performance, for example:

• Astra
• GeneratePress
• Kadence

add sth. into a group Gutenberg maybe Elementor s lightweight layout module that meets design requirements while ensuring that loading speeds are not bogged down.

5. on the CDN, access to the world without lagging

If your site visitors are widely distributed, such as domestic builds and foreign customer visits, use the CDN(Content Delivery Network) can cache static resources to global nodes, closer to the user, naturally faster to open.

Common choices include:

• Cloudflare(free start)
• Tencent Cloud CDN
• AliCloud CDN

It not only accelerates access, but also brings some protection against malicious crawlers or attacks that can cause server crashes.

summarize

By starting with the five directions of cache, images, plugins, themes and CDN, you can basically put together a WordPress Website SpeedMove up a few notches. No need to spend a lot of money on changing servers or redeveloping your website, a simple setup is all it takes to see results.

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