How to Speed Up Your Wordpress Website (in just 5 steps)

Portent ran a study that looked at just over 94 million pages across 10 e-commerce sites. They found a website conversions dropped by an average of 4.42% with each additional second of load time between zero and five seconds. That's huge. You can lose money by just having poor load time. Today I'm going to break down how to speed up your WordPress website in just five steps. RESOURCES & LINKS: ____________________________________________ “The Perfect SEO Setup for Wordpress: 8 Plugins to Skyrocket Your Rankings and Traffic”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiqNIUQNQ7I SEO Analyzer: neilpatel.com/seo-analyzer Wp Super Cache: https://br.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-super-cache/ CloudFlare: https://www.cloudflare.com/ Kraken: https://www.kraken.com/ Smush: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-smushit/ Ubersuggest: https://neilpatel.com/ubersuggest/ ____________________________________________ Question for you, how long does your website take to load? If you don't know, put it into neilpatel.com/seo-analyzer, put in your URL and it'll show you how long your website takes to load. I'm going to be focused on speed, but if you want to optimize your WordPress site for SEO, I have another video that walks you through the perfect SEO setup for WordPress with the eight best plugins that you can use. The first thing that you want to do is check your WordPress site speed. You should aim for load time of less than three seconds. Here's some things that'll slow down your WordPress site. Web hosting, when your web hosting server is not properly configured, it can hurt your website. Page size, mainly images that aren't optimized for the web. The bigger the images, the longer they take the load. Bad plugins, if you're using poorly coded plugins, then you're going to see a slow down in your site especially if you have one too many plugins. Another thing to look at is external scripts. The second thing that you'll want to do is install some kind of cache plugin. We talked abo