WordPress: Speeding Up Your Site

Learn how to optimize a typical WordPress site for speed.

Introduction

• Make your WordPress website lightning fast
• What you should know

1. Fundamentals of Performance

• Why speed is important for websites
• How to check and monitor your speed
• How websites slow down
• Static vs. dynamic sites

2. Hosting

• Why hosting matters
• PHP versions
• Server location

3. Media

• Optimize images
• Install an image optimizing plug-in
• Use a content delivery network (CDN)
• Offload audio and video files
• Use lazy loading

4. Plugins and Themes

• Your theme matters
• Plugins: Quality over quantity
• Concatenate and minify scripts and styles

5. Database

• WordPress database structure
• Custom database tables
• Limit post revisions

6. Caching

• What is caching?
• Configuring caching plugins
• Cache busting

Conclusion

• Next steps