What is WordPress?
WordPress is an online, open source website creation tool written in PHP. But in non-geek speak, it’s probably the easiest and most powerful blogging and website content management system (or CMS) in existence today. In this article, we will tell you about how to speed up your WordPress site? There are many reasons, why you should speed up your WordPress site. One of them is for improve your WordPress site SEO rank. So, let’s try these tips for speed up your WordPress site.
How to Speed up Your WordPress Site?
- 1. Block your wp-admin.php, wp-login.php and xmlrpc.php scripts from crawling, then firewall CIDR records for IP addresses looking for those scripts (they won’t be real people).
- 2. Optimize your database by removing drafts of all your post and page changes.
- 3. Repair and optimize your database on a monthly basis.
- 4. Never hotlink to images; always embed them locally.
- 5. Use as little Javascript as possible on your pages.
- 6. Make sure your embedded advertising and analytics loads last.
Some of those tips work for any kind of site. The more you rely on Javascript the more likely your page load/render times will be affected by any problems between the visitor’s browser and whatever remote server they are trying to connect to. The more remote servers your page code refers to the more likely any one of them will cause your visitor’s browser to lock up. There are ways to ensure that a hung server won’t freeze the browser, but most Websites don’t implement those techniques. The most common causes of browser lock up are advertising and analytics code.