Loading speed is the most crucial factor for an website to rank in search engine as an average visitor don’t stick to a site which takes more then 3 second to lupoad,if its not loading fast visitor shift to anther site which results in increased bounce rate of the website.
we need to do certain things to keep website bounce rate to minimal
A good Hosting service
A good hosting service is the must ,if you can invest in VPS hosting then speed issue is automatically solved but it is comparatively an costly affair and shared hosting is what people usually prefer so while going for share hosting lookout for hosting which is recommended by wordpress itself, wordpress in endorsing 3 web hosting’s
- Bluehost
- Dreamhost
- Hostinger
2. Use the latest Version of WordPress
it should be technically up to date,Always use latest version on HTML and PHP
3. Use an light weight Themes
Use Themes as per your site requirement, themes with unnecessary features decrease the site speed
4. Use Speed enhancing tool
Use speed enhancing tools like WP Rocket or WP Optimize it clean up unwanted data and speed up the site.
5. If the server finds site heavy to load for some or other reason it sends request to load the site,we should do following things to reduce the server request
- Reduce the number of poatonthe Page, try to avoid full post rather post only the excerpts of the post
- Split longer post into pages
- Try to reduce image
- uninstall and delete plugin that are not required
- Optimize the image used- compress the image into smaller size without compromising on the quality, Wp Samrush is the plugin which can optimize for free.
6. Optimize the images used –
compress the image into smaller size without compromising on the quality, Wp Samrush is the plugin which can optimize images for free.