A fast-loading blog improves user experience and SEO. This helps visitors find your blog on Google, and then keeps them happily reading post after post on your site.
3 Steps to Speed Up Your Blog
- Make sure you have a caching solution
- You have this by default if you’re already on a popular host like Hostgator.
- If your hosting doesn’t come with caching, you can install WP Super Cache.
- The default settings of the plugin will work great for most websites.
- Use a CDN like Cloudflare
- In short, a CDN will bring your website closer to your visitor’s physical area.
- Cloudflare is the best CDN in the world, and it’s free. Follow a tutorial.
- Edit your domain’s nameservers so that they point to Cloudflare, that’s it.
- Setup Super Page Cache
- Super Page Cache is a plugin that works extremely well with Cloudflare.
- Install it on your website, and connect it to your Cloudflare account.
- Once configured, you will notice significantly faster loading speeds.
Conclusion
There are hundreds of things you can do to speed up your WordPress blog. But ultimately, the 3 steps above will get you 90% of the benefit with 10% of the time investment.
The rest of the things are not worth worrying about in our opinion. The steps above have always produced the best results for our own websites.
