November 17, 2014 07:49 by
Scott
Speed is essential for your website and can determine the success of your online business. Slow loading pages are bad for business and your visitors will be reluctant and leave your site and seek another one. In fact, you can lose rankings in search results, however we are here to help you and below we share several tips to help users improve their WordPress website speed.
Choose a reliable web hosting provider
An efficient and reliable wordpress hosting is definitely essential to your fast loading speed. If you select one not so efficient you may experience problems such as frequent down (during high peak) traffic times, slow website speed and slow servers.
Select an appropriate theme
When you decide on a Theme, what you should take into consideration is not just a basic theme, but also a framework for extra benefits to your weblog site, for instance, you should look at how often the framework is modified and whether it is protected enough.
Database Optimization
WordPress uses the database to store pages, posts, settings, comments and plugin information. Whenever a page is loaded, WordPress automatically reads the. It’s important for databases to be optimized on a consistence basis; this is because the information shown or found may take a long time when your database is too busy. We recommend using the WP-DBManager plugin, which restores, optimizes and helps you back up your database.
Delete spam comments
We recommend cleaning up and deleting spam comments because they help slow your website down. Users can modify their site quicker by removing them from your WordPress dashboard. Simply just click the “Empty spam” button and this will clear all the current spam comments on your site. Furthermore, there’s hundreds of WordPress spam plugins to eliminate the spam also i.e. Spam Comments Cleaner.
Delete Post Revisions
When editing a post in WordPress, the old version will be saved. So every post will more likely end up with 10 post or more, so removing these revisions can help speed up your WordPress site to some level. If you want to delete WordPress revisions, we recommend choosing the “Better Delete Revision “plugin and after installed, simply go to your settings and click the Check Revision Posts and delete them, that’s it!