How To Speed Up Your Wordpress Site Painlessly

1. How To Speed Up Your Wordpress Site Painlessly Did you know that a website that takes longer than three seconds to load often loses half its visitors as a result? That’s probably not a great surprise. After all, we’ve probably all clicked that browser ‘back’ button from time to time due to a website not loading quickly enough. You wouldn’t want one of those websites to be yours. Here are a few steps that our WordPress consultants in the UK would advise you to take to boost your site load times. Give your site visitors extra time with your KISS KISS (‘Keep it simple, stupid!’) seems to work brilliantly as a philosophy in almost every life situation. Well, guess what? It’s a great principle to follow when you’re looking to shorten your site’s page load times, too. Basically, the simpler you can make your site while still doing all the things that you need it to do for your visitors, the faster your pages are likely to load and the more willing your visitors are likely to be to hang around. Nor does simplifying those complex design elements only reduce loading times, as it’ll also help to take time and stress out of the management and maintenance of your site. Avoid too many plugins Plugins play a central role in WordPress web design and development. If there’s a certain feature or function you want your site to have, there’s a good chance there’s a plugin for it. Still, WordPress’s sheer ease of use and modular structure means it can sometimes be easy to overload your site with plugins. Ask yourself if that plugin provides a function for your site that you can’t do without. Is there another way to accomplish that objective that could relieve the burden on your site? Compress scripts The term ‘minification’ refers to the process of combining all of your scripts into a single file for each type. It can be an invaluable means of shortening your page load times if your site has a lot of JavaScript and CSS files that could be slowing it down.

2. Again, WordPress can come to the rescue here with plugins that allow you to minify your code without the need to possess more advanced scripting knowledge. Sites built by us and in a Care Plan benefit from the use of WP Rocket, easily the best in its class. The above are just a few of the tips that our UK-based WordPress consultants at PENNInk Productions can give you to assist your efforts to streamline your site’s loading times. Why not give us a call now, in fact, on 020 8144 7931, to find out more about the breadth and depth of our web design expertise? PENNInk Productions Ltd. Registered office: 27A Maxwell Road Northwood Middlesex HA6 2XY Tel. 020 8144 7931 https://www.pennink.com/