Wordpress Website Speed Optimization
If you realised your Wordpress website is slow, you can try the following optimization practices:
- Remove unused plugins & themes
-plugins like UsageDD, Plugins Garbage Collector can help you identify the most problematic culprits.
- Use an effective caching plugin - like WP Super Cache
- Use a Content Delivery Network (CDN)
- Enable Gzip Compression - this can be done with a rule in your .htaccess file
- Optimize Your Images - you can check the WP-SmushIt plugin
- Optimize your WordPress database - you can try the WP-Optimize plugin
- Minify JS and CSS files - this plugin can help you -> Autoptimize
- Remove Query Strings From Static Resources -> you can do that with WP Super Cache
- Review and optimize the things that are being suggested from speed/optimization test websites such as:
https://gtmetrix.com
https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/
https://tools.pingdom.com
In addition, the load can be caused by bots indexing your websites. You can find this information via your cPanel > Awstats > Select the domain name in question > Click View > Select Robots (on the left).
