Published: 09-09-2022
Related Category: WordPress Tips
Type of Content: WordPress Articles
Creator: DCP Web Designers
If there is one thing you probably don't like, it is a super slow-loading website, very frustrating!
A WordPress website that loads slowly is not good for a user's experience, we are living in a world where information is at our fingertips, and we are now used to getting that information in a matter of a few seconds.
Visitors to your website will not wait for more than 2 or 3 seconds for a page to load, that may not seem like a long time, but in the world of the internet, it is actually a little slow.
I spent many months optimising my website for just speed, reducing the use of Javascript, third-party plugins and compressing images using WebP format.
The result as you can check for yourself is a superfast website: https://www.dcpweb.co.uk/
There are many reasons why a WordPress website might be running slower than ecpected such as cheap website hosting or incorrect domain configuration.
One easy fix for a website is to compress images correctly. This can be done by editing them in an application like Canva or Photoshop.
The goal is to resize and crop the images as much as possible to reduce the file size.
It is important to compress images to make them load faster.
There are many plugins that you can use to help compress your images on a WordPress website such as:
Most of the image compression plugins have a free option but these tend to be limited in some way.
SiteGround hosting provider gives you a FREE optimisation plugin!
So why pay a yearly fee when you can have it for free?
The SiteGround optimisation plugin is not just for image compressing, you can also use it for:
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