How To Speed Up a Website In Less Than 10 Minutes

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Speed Up Your Website In Less Than 10 Minutes

The benefits of a fast website have been proven time and time again by Google and other search engines. The faster your website loads, the more visitors it will receive, the more it will convert, and the better its ranking will be in the search engine results pages (SERPs). With so much at stake, you’d think every webmaster would be optimizing their site to load as quickly as possible! But many don’t understand how to do so effectively, or that speed matters at all. In this guide, we’ll teach you how to speed up your website in 10 minutes or less.

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What Is Mobile-First Indexing?

On July 27, 2017, Google announced that it would be launching Mobile-First Indexing. That means more and more people will be accessing websites through their phones and tablets than ever before. Mobile devices are inherently slower than PCs because they have to send data over cellular networks. The average page load time for a mobile user is about 20 seconds, which is almost double that of PC users (10 seconds). That’s why it’s crucial to optimize your website for mobile-first indexing.

How important are page load times to the success of your website?

According to Google, it’s very important: Page load time is one of the top three ranking factors in the Google search results page. In other words, it impacts your organic traffic and can impact your conversion rate, as well. You need to optimize your website for mobile and make sure you aren’t losing visitors because of your load times, which means you need to speed up your site quickly, but also correctly. Here are 6 tips on how to speed up your site in 10 minutes or less.

Optimize media files for faster loading website

The best way to speed up your website is by optimizing media files for a speedy load time. Your site’s visitors are likely using mobile devices, but not all websites are optimized for these devices. If you want to ensure that your website is fast enough for these users, then it’s important to optimize them so they can get what they need from your site quickly and easily.

 

 
 
 
 
 
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Compress your images on your WordPress website

When you upload images to your WordPress website they are often very large, some as large as 5 MB or even more. This makes it take much longer for your website to load. It could be adding seconds or even minutes to how long it takes your site to load for someone. To speed up your WordPress website try compressing all of the images that you have on there and see if it improves page load time.

Use a CDN (Content Delivery Network)

A CDN is a great way to speed up your website’s load time. When you cache content and host at a globally distributed network of servers, it can decrease load times for your site’s visitors by getting them data more quickly. While there are many benefits to using a CDN, including increased traffic, increased security, and decreased bandwidth costs, one of its best features is speed.

Minimize HTTP requests

Every time your browser requests a new file from your server, it slows down your site’s load time. Every image and JavaScript file that you add to your site makes an additional HTTP request. Using CSS sprites and minifying your code can help you decrease these HTTP requests by keeping multiple images together. Decreasing these requests is a simple way to improve website speed without investing in any additional services or programs.

Choose a fast hosting provider

The easiest way to speed up your website is by choosing a hosting provider that focuses on speed. Choosing a fast host is one of those things that, once you do it, you wonder why you didn’t do it sooner! Check out our review of the fastest hosting for WordPress.

Enable Browser Caching

Speed up your website by enabling browser caching. When you set files to be cached, web browsers can save a copy of them locally so they don’t have to load them over a network every time they load your site. This is called caching, and it improves page speed because your website becomes more lightweight—it doesn’t need to transfer as much data when a user first opens your site and then loads subsequent pages.

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