In this video, you'll learn how to speed up your WordPress website in 3 simple steps.
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Google has used site speed as a ranking signal for desktop searches since 2010. And as of 2018, page speed became a ranking factor for mobile searches.
Even though speed improvements will only affect a small percentage of slow websites, faster page load times lead to better user experience and ultimately, more revenue.
So, there are a number of reasons why your website might load slowly. But the most common reasons that I've seen are due to slow connectivity, caching, page size, and sometimes more technical reasons like render blocking JS.
And the 3 steps in this video should help you get better performance from your site. But keep in mind that the things we did for this site won't necessarily translate perfectly to your site.
This is because there are tons of things to consider when it comes to WordPress site speed like your theme's code, specific plugins you might be using, server configuration, image file sizes and more.
Before you do anything, run your site through some site speed checking tools, like Google's PageSpeed Insights, Pingdom, GTMetrix or our own Site Audit tool.
This will help you see what you need to improve.
The first thing we did was to switch DNS providers to Cloudflare's free DNS service.
And you'll learn how this works and why this is important in the video.
The next thing we did was purchase and install the WP Rocket plugin.
WP Rocket is an all-in-one site speed optimization plugin for WordPress. The plugin handles common page speed optimizations like caching, preloading, compression, and lazy loads images to name a few.
You'll learn what you need to do after installing WPRocket on your site.
And finally, we optimized our images.
The simple solution is to compress your images using lossy or lossless compression. And there are some great plugins that'll do this for you like ShortPixel and Imagify.
And these 3-steps gave us a huge improvement, as shown in the speed checking tools we used.
If you're still unhappy with your site speed after making these optimizations, then you'll likely need more custom work done for you. So you may want to consider removing plugins and scripts, switching themes, or hiring a developer to make the appropriate fixes.
#speedupyourwordpresswebsite #pagespeed #technicalseo
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:58 Common reasons that impact website's load time
1:50 Run a test through page-speed testing tools
3:01 Switch to a fast DNS provider
5:23 Start with caching files
6:05 Optimize CSS files
7:41 Set up JS files loading
8:50 Optimize the media files
9:10 Set up preloading priority
9:49 Use CDN
11:09 Optimize your images
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Thanks a lot. My site score of 74 jump up to 98. Easy tutorial to understand & follow. 👍🏻
Keep it up!
-Helen
This definitely helped boost my pagespeed scores! Thanks for giving such concrete steps that are hard to find anywhere else.
Happy to help! 🙌
-Helen
Gone straight from 42 to 98 for mobile in page speed insight! Thanks a lot!
Sounds great! Happy for you 🙂
-Helen
Hi. Your advice is priceless. I really benefit from this kind of tutorial. Thank you very much.
Glad it was helpful!
Very clear and concise. Thank you!
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Gotta say ur a great tutorial YouTuber..love ur teaching methods, love that u use examples to expand our knowledge and u freakin explain!! Awesome 😎👍. Thanx so much for making us non-techies feel techy lol🤩
Thank you!
Super clear and concise – thank you!
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Excellent guide! Thank you very much for this information. I usually dread optimizing websites for speed but you just made my work 10 times easier.
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Really easy to understand and very helpful video. Thanks!!!
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This was a super great video. Really simple and so clear. Beginners will appreciate it. Thank you, you’ve done a great job with the editing as well. Looking forward to more tutorials like this.
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After MONTHS of searching for ANY type of solution, I finally found you.
You have NO idea how much this helped. From 18 seconds to 3! Thank You a lot!
@Stan Which of the steps helped you? Did WP Rocket helped you?
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Excellent presentation… Precise and straight, good voice and sentences, no extras mktg words, extraordinary explanation with few words… Good content for non_tech users… Thanks a lot
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This helped improve my site speed and was very easy to follow. Thank you!
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Awesome tutorial. What a gift you have in explaining complex issues in such a simple manner! Thank you 🙏🏼
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First up, thanks for this beautifully done tutorial. You’re so professional. I followed all your steps yet can’t get nowhere near 90%.
He only had 7 plugins, (most wp sites have 20+), no analytics, a blog post so no page builder DOM elements etc. These page speed tutorial videos always use very basic pages or posts to optimizer so they are guaranteed top transformational before after results. You never see them take on a real life complex homepage or long service page.
What a great simple easy to understand tutorial!!! Muchas gracias dude! Video editing and visual elements while explaining the concepts were on point. Small businesses like mine can’t afford to hire expensive help so learning some of the basics is essential. I appreciate your work!
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Fantastic tutorial – thank you so much!
I took your advice for one of my sites that was running SO slowly, and it helped quite a bit. It’s still not quite where it needs to be, but at least it’s better for now. Thanks again!
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this is what we call a “high quality content” , thank you
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I am not a developer. I set up my own WordPress site and have posted to it daily for more than a dozen years. I rely on Youtube to teach me how to do things like improve page speed, domain authority, etc. Your explanations are, by far, better than any I’ve seen in 12 years!! thank you
That’s awesome to hear! Thank you.
Thanks, Sam for the wonderful video. Awesome effects!
I have two questions – We are using W3 Total Cache Free version –
1. Can we use the ‘Enable + Combine Only’ for CSS Minify settings?
2. Can we use the ‘Enable + Combine Only’ for JS Minify settings?
@Ahrefs sure Sam thanks.
It’s all site dependent. You’d have to try yourself. But I’d recommend trying in a staging environment.
-Sam