How to optimize your Blog? WordPress is widely using CMS for a blog. Today thousands of blogs are created by WordPress. WordPress is so intuitive and easy to manage that anybody can create a blog or any type of website using it. The plethora of themes and plugins can help to expand your blog to any level.
Managing a WordPress blog is a very easy task. But when we come to its technical part i.e. optimizing your WordPress blog, it is very important that your WordPress site loads faster on all devices. Slow loading WordPress site can ruin your all blogging dreams.
In this article, I am telling you the 8 ways to optimize your blog. A well optimized WordPress blog can perform well in search engines. So, let’s get started.
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Choose Right Hosting
The very first step to optimize your WordPress blog is to choose a right web hosting company. A poor hosting company with bad server can drastically impact on your blog performance. You will get frequent down-times and your blog also loads very slowly. So, it is very important that you choose a right web hosting provider. For best web hosting, I highly recommend Siteground.
2. Optimize your images
It is highly recommended that you optimize your images. A Well optimized image can save your bandwidth and also load fast without losing its quality. There are plugins like WP Smush or Ewww Image Optimizer which can optimize your images. Don’t upload images of big sizes until it is very necessary.
3. Use Good WordPress themes
A poorly coded WordPress theme can also slow down your blog speed. It is highly advisable that you use the best WordPress themes. I highly recommend you to use premium themes. Check out some Best WordPress themes from Mythemeshop. Premium themes come with professional design and their architecture are SEO friendly.
4. Use fewer amounts of CSS and JavaScript’s.
I personally recommend you to use fewer amounts of CSS and JavaScript’s on your blog. Using too much of them can slow down your blog loading speed. If you want to use advertisements codes like Google AdSense then you always use asynchronous JavaScript. Adding too many CSS files can also have a negative impact on your blog performance.
5. Don’t flood your site with Ads.
Some of the blog owners are eager to make money from their blog and hence they loaded their blog full of ads. Using too much amount of ads can also slow down your blog loading speed. Using too many ads can also distract user interaction. Sites having too many ads have no value to the users and they will leave your site on their very first visit.
6. Use a cache plugin
It is mandatory that you must have to install a cache plugin for your WordPress blog. A cache plugins like WP Fastest cache, W3T cache, WP Super cache can improve your blog performance. These plugins help you to optimize your blog CSS, JavaScript’s and other resources of your blog.
7. Use Gzip Compression
Today most of the cPanel hosting providers offer Gzip compression tool. This tool will compress your website to load faster. Make sure that you have enabled the Gzip compression for your blog. You can also enable Gzip through .htaccess as well. You can also activate Gzip compression through your cpanel. Just Click the “Optimize website” option.
8. Use a CDN
Using a CDN service can really improve your blog performance. A CDN provider creates a cache of your website and put them on their hundred’s of servers across the globe. So, when a user browses your site, they will serve it through the server near to your location. This will drastically increase your blog loading speed. It will also improve your blog performance as well. Cloudflare and Stackpath (Formerly known as MaxCdn) are one of the best CDN providers available on the Internet.
Conclusion
These are some of the steps to optimize your WordPress blog. These steps will help you to increase your blog speed but also help you make your blog more SEO friendly as well. I hope that you will definitely work on these steps; if you have any questions or thoughts regarding this post, just drop a comment below. If you like this post, don’t forget to share it with others.
Hosting is where it starts. With a good host you are golden. But sans a good host, no matter what front end changes you make it’s gonna be tough to optimize your blog. The host is the genuine foundation of this entire process.
Hello Ryan,
Exactly A Good Web Hosting is very important. A Poor web hosting definitely ruins your efforts and slow down your blog. Thanks for stopping by 🙂
Regards,
Vishwajeet Kumar
Hi Vishwajeet Sir,
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Have a Nice Day Ahead,
Hello Muhammad,
Welcome to my blog. I am happy that you like the post and my blog. I really appreciate that. Thanks for stopping by 🙂
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Vishwajeet
Hi Aaron,
What a great article! Optimizing a blog is one of the most important things after setting it up. My niece just set up hers recently for college, and I have been trying to find valuable resources for her. I think this article will be the best way to let her know about the optimization process. I really found this article very helpful. You added a lot of great information into it, I am sure it will help my niece and a lot of aspiring bloggers as well.