The load time of your WordPress blog decides a lot in the success of your blog. If your blog loads fast, it gives your readers a better experience and they ultimately spend more time on your website.
Now it has been a proven fact that the load time of your blog is also crucial in determining the search engine rankings. Blogs which are slow in this aspect are usually not given preference in the SERPs by the search engines. Higher rankings lead to increased targeted traffic.
I have always emphasized that a fast loading blog always has a higher conversion rate which is helpful in bringing in more sales and money for you.
To help you out, I have listed out 5 awesome techniques which will help you to make your WordPress blog lightning fast.
Decrease Load Time of Your Blog With These Techniques
- Light Theme With Few Plugins :- Always be selective when you choose a theme for your WordPress Blog. The theme you choose should be light and load time optimized. Standard 3 is one of the best Premium WordPress Theme when it comes to optimizing your site in this field. Also, do not make your blog a plugin shop. Plugins are good to add features to your blog but they also add to the load time of your blog. It is always best to keep your plugin count below 10.
- Use a Cache Plugin :- I am using W3 Total Cache to cache pages of my blog and it helps me reduce my blog’s load time significantly. You can also use WP Super Cache to make your blog load fast.
- Use a CDN :- CDN or Content Delivery Network is used for blogs or websites which have a lot of images and other media. A CDN is used to take load off from your main server. All images and javascript etc is hosted on CDN which helps in faster loading of your website. I use MaxCDN on this blog and so far results have been amazing.
- Upgrade Your Servers :- If your blog is high on traffic then there might be a need to upgrade your servers from shared to VPS or dedicated. Your Web Hosting Servers have a major role in the load time of your blog.
- Disable Unnecessary Stuff :- You might not notice but there might be some waste or unnecessary stuff on your blog which might be adding to the load time of your blog. Try to disable it or completely remove it.
The present and upcoming search engine algorithms are really on the opposite side of slow loading blogs. So make sure your blog is not one of those which search engines hate.
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Yeah, the load time of a blog plays a big role, visitors are always in hurry so in order to stand out, your blog must load fast from others. I've spent a lot of time on finding new tactics to make my blog load fast.
Well, those are great techniques.
Thank.
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The loading time of a site is truly paramount to the success of any blog. I'm really grateful for reminding some of us what we ought to do.
Absolutely fantastic post. I have read many such posts but you have included CDN and server upgrade which was completely new. Thanks for sharing such informations.
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These are all great ideas. I had never heard of CDN, I will have to take a look at it. I have one blog that is very picture heavy. I do already use a cache plugin though. Those things are a must. You can see a dramatic difference as soon as you have it installed. I was pretty amazed. :]
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hi,
wonderful article. Really less load time play a good roll to attract your audience. Your tips are really helpful for everyone. thanks for share a great informative post…
Your tips are really good. One more thing we can do to reduce blog load time is eliminating external links from our blog like stat counters. We can use Google Analytic instead of stat counter gadgets. Please let me know if you are agree with me.
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