{"id":108878,"date":"2014-09-17T12:41:22","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T04:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seo-hacker.com\/?p=8878"},"modified":"2022-05-10T11:08:28","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T03:08:28","slug":"effective-ways-speed-wordpress-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seo-hacker.com\/effective-ways-speed-wordpress-website\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Most Effective Ways to Speed Up Your WordPress Website"},"content":{"rendered":"

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According to a study done by OnlineGraduatePrograms.com in 2012<\/a>, one out of four people abandon a website if it loads more than four seconds. Amazon, in another research, calculated that a page load slowdown of just one second could cost them to lose $1.6 billion in sales every year.<\/p>\n

These are just two studies about page speed, but if you do a quick Google search, you can find thousands of similar studies showing how important speed optimization is to a certain website.<\/p>\n

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In this post, I\u2019m going to share a few ways to improve your site speed<\/a> and hopefully help you get some more visibility on search after you’ve implemented them.<\/p>\n

1. Choose a Good Hosting Provider<\/h3>\n

This may look like the most basic step, but it plays a huge role when it comes to improving the site speed.<\/p>\n

I used to rely on cheap shared hosting companies and it worked fine, but with the wisdom of hindsight, I have learned that if you are running an online business, then you should invest in a good web hosting provider.<\/p>\n

If you want your website to load quickly, you can start using premium WordPress hosting<\/a> providers like SiteGround or MediaTemple.<\/p>\n

After getting a good hosting service and improving your website’s speed, your next focus should be its security. For this, you need to make sure that you have DNS security enabled.<\/p>\n

Having DNS layer protection<\/a> will help your website in advanced protection, domain categorization, content filtering, etc. thus, improving your website’s overall performance.<\/p>\n

2. Use a Premium Cache Plugin: WP-Rocket<\/h3>\n

A lot of you may already know about the free caching plugins like W3 Total Cache and WP Super Cache, but I am pretty sure none of you know about this shiny new cache plugin \u2013 WP-Rocket. In fact, this is the first premium plugin that was released in the market. Now, it is the dominating cache plugin.<\/p>\n

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This plugin can improve the speed of your website in a number of ways:<\/p>\n