How to speed up wordpress website load time

How to speed up wordpress website load time
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How to speed up wordpress website load time

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WordPress is CMS platform , Maximum website active on WordPress.  Even Google Boat factors site speed into their algorithm when ranking websites. So if your site loads time high you can expect your Google rankings to Low. How to speed up wordpress website load time. Google, yahoo and many Search engines rank websites with fast-loading times higher than the slow-loading ones. So, if you want to improve your position Serach Engine, improving speed. In this guide, we will show you how to speed up wordpress website load time by sharing our web performance strategies and recommendations. WordPress is used by 58.8% of all the websites whose content management system we know. This is 26.4% of all websites.

How Check Website Speed ?

GTmetrix
WebPageTest
PageSpeed Tools

How To Speed Up WordPress

  1. Select Best web hosting

Choose Good or Fast web hosting. if your hosting Good your Site get More visitor.  If Customer Base is Indian Then select Indian Server Location.

  1. Select SEO Optimize Website Theme

Select Attractive and Optimize WordPress theme. Always Select Simple and Fast And User Friendly Theme it will help you in ranking and search engine.

  1. Use Caching plugin

WordPress plug-in are obviously quite useful, improve page loads time, use some Cache Plug-in it will help you to remove Cache and improve your website speed.
W3 Total Cache
WP Rocket

  1. Use a content delivery network (CDN)

All of your favorite big blogs are making use of this, and if you are into online marketing using WordPress Make your Blog Fast and are you use of CDN’s.
CloudFlare
Maxcdn

  1. Optimize images

Use Good Size Image and Use plugin to has an image optimizer called Smush. It that will drastically reduce the file size of an image, while not reducing quality.

  1. Optimize your homepage to load quickly

This isn’t one thing but really a few easy things that you can do to ensure that your homepage loads quickly,

7- Remove Query Strings from Static Resources

There are some free WordPress plugins you can also use to remove query strings such as “Query Strings Remover” and “Remove Query Strings From Static Resources.”

8- Gzip Compression

use Gzip Compression

9-.Htaccess File
You can enable compression by adding the following to your .htaccess file.

# BEGIN W3TC Browser Cache

<IfModule mod_deflate.c>

    <IfModule mod_filter.c>

        AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css text/x-component application/x-javascript application/javascript text/javascript text/x-js text/html text/richtext image/svg+xml text/plain text/xsd text/xsl text/xml image/bmp application/java application/msword application/vnd.ms-fontobject application/x-msdownload image/x-icon image/webp application/json application/vnd.ms-access application/vnd.ms-project application/x-font-otf application/vnd.ms-opentype application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.database application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.chart application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.formula application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.graphics application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.presentation application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text audio/ogg application/pdf application/vnd.ms-powerpoint image/svg+xml application/x-shockwave-flash image/tiff application/x-font-ttf application/vnd.ms-opentype audio/wav application/vnd.ms-write application/font-woff application/font-woff2 application/vnd.ms-excel

    <IfModule mod_mime.c>

        # DEFLATE by extension

        AddOutputFilter DEFLATE js css htm html xml

    </IfModule>

    </IfModule>

</IfModule>

<FilesMatch "\.(html|htm|rtf|rtx|svg|txt|xsd|xsl|xml|HTML|HTM|RTF|RTX|SVG|TXT|XSD|XSL|XML)$">

    <IfModule mod_headers.c>

        Header append Vary User-Agent env=!dont-vary

    </IfModule>

</FilesMatch>

<FilesMatch "\.(bmp|class|doc|docx|eot|exe|ico|webp|json|mdb|mpp|otf|_otf|odb|odc|odf|odg|odp|ods|odt|ogg|pdf|pot|pps|ppt|pptx|svg|svgz|swf|tif|tiff|ttf|ttc|_ttf|wav|wri|woff|woff2|xla|xls|xlsx|xlt|xlw|BMP|CLASS|DOC|DOCX|EOT|EXE|ICO|WEBP|JSON|MDB|MPP|OTF|_OTF|ODB|ODC|ODF|ODG|ODP|ODS|ODT|OGG|PDF|POT|PPS|PPT|PPTX|SVG|SVGZ|SWF|TIF|TIFF|TTF|TTC|_TTF|WAV|WRI|WOFF|WOFF2|XLA|XLS|XLSX|XLT|XLW)$">

    <IfModule mod_headers.c>

         Header unset Last-Modified

    </IfModule>

</FilesMatch>

# END W3TC Browser Cache

# BEGIN WordPress

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

</IfModule>

## EXPIRES CACHING ##

<IfModule mod_expires.c>

ExpiresActive On

ExpiresByType image/jpg "access plus 1 year"

ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 1 year"

ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 1 year"

ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 1 year"

ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 1 month"

ExpiresByType application/pdf "access plus 1 month"

ExpiresByType text/x-javascript "access plus 1 month"

ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash "access plus 1 month"

ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access plus 1 year"

ExpiresDefault "access plus 2 days"

</IfModule>

## EXPIRES CACHING ##

 

 

<IfModule mod_deflate.c>

  # Compress HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Text, XML and fonts

  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript

  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml

  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/vnd.ms-fontobject

  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font

  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-opentype

  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-otf

  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-truetype

  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-ttf

  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript

  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml

  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml

  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/opentype

  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/otf

  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/ttf

  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/svg+xml

  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/x-icon

  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css

  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html

  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/javascript

  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain

  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml

 

  # Remove browser bugs (only needed for really old browsers)

  BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html

  BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip

  BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html

  Header append Vary User-Agent

</IfModule>

# END WordPress

 

 

<IfModule mod_expires.c>

# Enable expirations

ExpiresActive On

# Default directive

ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 month"

# My favicon

ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access plus 1 year"

# Images

ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 1 month"

ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 1 month"

ExpiresByType image/jpg "access plus 1 month"

ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 1 month"

# CSS

ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 1 month"

# Javascript

ExpiresByType application/javascript "access plus 1 year"

</IfModule>

10-Optimize your WordPress database

Optimize your WordPress database use Plugin.
You can simply use the WP-Optimize plugin, which I run on all of my sites.

11- Adjust Gravatar images

You’ll notice on this site that the default Gravatar image is set to… well, nothing.

12-Prefetch Google Fonts:
<link rel=”dns-prefetch” href=”//fonts.googleapis.com”>

13-Prefetch Google Code (jQuery)

<link rel=”dns-prefetch” href=”//ajax.googleapis.com”>

14-Prefetch Google Analytics

<link rel=”dns-prefetch” href=”//www.google-analytics.com”>

15-Reduce Number of WordPress Plugins

Don’t use more plugin use Less plugin it also increase load speed.

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