My Website is Slow!

What do I do about it?

There are a number of people complaining about their WordPress website loading speed.

We’ll take a look at the factors affecting the loading speed and what can be done to reduce it. The goal is to have the first page loaded in less than 2 seconds.

What affects loading speed and the solution:

Host considerations: Hosting technology

1. Shared hosting. Your site is shared on the same host as others. It shares the server resources like read access memory (RAM) and processing power.
2. Virtual private server (VPS). Fewer sites on the same host with resources evenly divided.
3. Dedicated server. Only your site is on the server. You can add resources for the best performance.

Host configuration

1. How much memory is installed?
2. Does the host use SSD hard drives?
3. Is the host using the latest version of PHP, HTML, WordPress?

Other things that you can do:

1. Use a lightweight Theme.

• Try to find a theme that as just what you need and nothing more.
• You can also choose a lightweight theme and add the extra…