This document provides 10 steps to boost the speed of a WordPress site: 1) Switch to a fast web host, 2) Use a content delivery network, 3) Reduce server response time by using caching plugins, enabling Gzip compression, minimizing browser requests, and optimizing the database, 4) Use an optimized theme, 5) Compress and scale images, 6) Load resources locally, 7) Limit JavaScript and CSS use, 8) Reduce the number of plugins used, 9) Optimize the database by limiting revisions, cleaning transients and unused tables, and deleting trashed comments, 10) Minimize JavaScript and CSS use through caching.

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HOW TO BOOST
WORDPRESS
SITE SPEED
Google gives importance to page loading times in its
search results.
This infographic will help boost your site speed in
just 10 steps.
Switching to a fast web host
Using a Content Delivery Network (CDN)
According to Google’s PageSpeed Insights, your
server response time should be under 200ms.
SRT can be reduced by:
REDUCE SERVER
RESPONSE TIME (SRT)
A good caching plugin speeds up your
page loading by caching static files,
minimizing CSS and JavaScript, lazy
loading images, and much more.
Recommended caching plugins include
WP Rocket, WP Fastest Cache, and W3
Total Cache.
USE A CACHING
PLUGIN
GZIP compresses your site pages while
serving them to your visitors.
Using GZIP, you can compress your
pages by more than 70 percent!
ENABLE GZIP
COMPRESSION
The higher the no. of browse or HTTP
requests, the more time it will take for
your webserver to fulfill all of them.
So, you should try to minimize the
number of browser requests made on
your server.
MINIMIZE THE
BROWSER REQUESTS
Limit number of post and page revisions
Clean up transients and unused tables
Delete trashed and spam comments
Your WordPress database should be optimized to
reduce bloat and make your pages load faster.
Some of the tips to implement:
OPTIMIZE YOUR DATABASE

2. Your theme should be well optimized to handle
JavaScript, it should be lightweight so that it
does not add much overhead to your page load
times.
It should follow efficient coding standards to
optimize CSS delivery and other scripts.
USE A WELL OPTIMIZED
THEME
Using too many images on your pages
results in slower loading speeds since
images are usually resource-intensive
with large sizes.
Therefore, you should enable image
compression for all images on your site.
COMPRESS AND
SCALE IMAGES
Your server requests include external
requests to sites like Google Analytics,
Google fonts, etc.
You can load these resources locally
from your webserver to reduce the
loading time.
LOAD RESOURCES
LOCALLY
JavaScript and CSS use increases the
page size and results in slower load
times.
The solution is to strike a balance
between design and performance. Also
use a good caching plugin to minimize
page scripts.
LIMIT JAVASCRIPT
AND CSS USE
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The more plugins you have installed on your
site, the higher will be the no. of requests
made on the server.
The solution is to use minimum number of
plugins and use modular plugins whenever
possible.
REDUCE THE NUMBER OF
PLUGINS IN USE
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