{"id":372,"date":"2021-10-15T11:01:32","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T11:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/falconstack.com\/blog\/?p=372"},"modified":"2021-10-30T09:01:38","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T09:01:38","slug":"wordpress-speed-optimization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/falconstack.com\/blog\/wordpress-speed-optimization\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the Most Efficient Ways to Make a WordPress Site Faster?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Let’s talk WordPress speed optimization! The speed of a website is critical as it directly impacts the likelihood of a visitor returning to it later, its conversion rate<\/strong>, customer satisfaction, ranking in search engines<\/strong>, etc. Long story short, your website must be quick! But how fast can it go? In general, pages should load in less than two seconds<\/strong> (the faster, the better, obviously).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n This article looks at what causes websites to be slow and what you can do to solve these issues, so it’s all blazing fast. We’ve put together a list of best practices<\/strong> you can follow to improve your Google PageSpeed score on a WordPress site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n One of the most common causes for sluggish WordPress sites is oversized, uncompressed pictures. The heavier your website’s images are, the longer it will take to load (not rocket science but easily forgotten).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Optimizing your images<\/strong> is a critical step in increasing your website’s speed. By optimizing, we mean downsizing (cropping to no more than what’s needed where the picture is being used) and compressing them so that they can load faster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Each time you need to add an image to your content, figure out where it will be used on the site and find what its size should be. If used in an article, the size should be the width of your content’s body. You can then crop it and upload it (several free tools can help with this). <\/p>\n\n\n\nOptimize all your images<\/h2>\n\n\n\n