This week, we share some tips on how to make your website pages load quickly. If your web pages are not loading quickly, it’s time you worked on that and we will show how to do that for all our WordPress users. For some time now, Google has been saying that page speed is going to start counting in their tanking algorithm and it seems that time is fast approaching.
What is page speed?
Page Speed is the measurement of how fast the content on your web page loads. Basically, we are talking about the time it takes for the content on a website to load. Page speeds have been improving on most websites over the years such that if your website pages take more than two seconds to load then it is considered slow. In this digital era where everyone is on their phone and in a hurry, people don’t want to wait around for your content and neither do the search engines. So you need to work on your page speed and you need to be continually working on it. There are always things you can do to make your site go faster. Here are a few tips that can help you improve your page speed;
Optimize Caching
Caching is the process of storing data in a cache temporarily so that the data can be served quickly. There are quite a number of plugins that you can use for this both free and premium. WP Super Cache is one caching plugin that we recommend as it yields great results and it is free. You could also try using WP Rocket which is easy to setup and also gives some pretty good results. One other very great caching plugin is Swift Performance, a premium plugin that has very high ratings and you can test your page scores on it’s performance Pingdom and GTMetrix just to see how it is performing.