Your WordPress site speed & performance is very important for your SEO (search engine optimisation) and your user, if your site is slow, visitors will turn away. There are many factors that influence your website performance
WORDPRESS WEBSITE OPTIMISATION & PERFORMANCE
SEO IMPORTANT FACTOR
DevOps Business Design Company offer WordPress optimisation for all our design packages, certain advance features available for higher packages, please consult our web designer team for the best package to your business
Our Process to Optimise Your Website:
Make full backup of your website
Enable PHP 7 and contents compression
Install & configure caching plugin
Install & configure database optimisation plugin
Install & configure image optimisation plugin
Test the website speed and make sure is working fine
Apply the above to the live site
How Can I Check My WordPress Site Performance?
GTMETRIX
Gtmetrix will give your full report about your site speed and performance, what’s the problems and how to fix them
Google Developer
Google Developer will give an over view of your WordPress site in both Desktop and Mobile
Google Mobile Testing
Test My Site With Google is another option to use for testing your mobile speed.
WORDPRESS SITE PERFORMANCE FACTORS
There are many factors that play roles in WordPress speed, hosting server, themes, plugins.
A good hosting provider
It all start by choosing a best hosting provider that have pwereful servers and use the latest technolgies for server performance.
Linux server, PHP 7, Gzip compression, security
Fast lightweight theme
Choosing a good theme is also important, also another factor is the number and type of plugins you are using on your site, you should not use too many plugins. Choose a design that is optimised and responsive.
Premium themes that been design from start according to best design standards
WordPress Cleaning
Reduce your post revisions, drafts, disable pinbacks and trackbacks if you do not need them, empty trash, when you delete a page, post, comments they go to Trash, you should check that.
Optimisation
Database Optimisation
Install optimisation plugin to help you optimise your database, it will help also for deleting post revisions, trashed post …etc
WP Optimize
Content Compression
Enable Gzip and contents compression in the server side, this can be activated on cpanel
Gzip Compression
Use PHP 7
The latest version of PHP has many new features and increase speed, you shoold enable PHP 7 on your server, this can be done from cpanel.
Enable on server using Cpanel
Cache Plugin
Any WordPress site need to install cahing plugin, most imprtant is to make sure is configured correctly, minify CSS and Javascript, enable browser caching DevOps a design company can help you on this
W3 Total Cache / WP Supper Cache.
Minify CSS / Javascript
Images Optimisation
Install an images optimisation plugin to reduce the size of your images
WordPress SITE OPTIMISATION / SECURITY PLANS
SECURE & SPEED UP YOUR WEBSITE
Security
R1500Once Off
Website Audit
Website Scan
1 Domain
1 month free support
Optimisation
R1500Once Off
Website Optimisation
Database Optimisation
1 domain
1 month free support
Security & Optimisation
R2800Once Off
Full security package
Full optimisation package
1 domain
3 month free support
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