Your website load speed matters a great deal to ensure good search engine ranking and a great user experience. It is a known fact that Google’s search algorithm includes your page load times as one of the many parameters while calculating page rank.

1. How to Improve Site Speed
in WordPress
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2. How to Speed Up WordPress?
➢ Stay up to Date- Update WordPress Core!
➢ Core is faster today than previous versions
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3. Themes
➢ Where do I get a good theme?
– WordPress Theme Repository
➢ How do I know it’s a ‘Fast’ Theme
– Use a plugin called “Display Queries” to see what the theme
is doing to the database
– Test Site
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4. Hosting Matters
➢ It’s not just about price
– “Unlimited” doesn’t exist
• Read the Terms of Service (TOS)
• Call them – ask questions
– If they won’t answer a question to get a new customer, how
will respond if you call for support
Links to Hosting Sites listed below :
1.Liquidweb 2.Webhost
3.Tadepole 4.Bluehost
5.Dreamhost 6. WP Engine
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5. Settings
➢ Home Page – How many Posts are you loading?
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6. Plugins
➢ Plugins : Avoid Plugin Overload
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7. Media.
➢ Images What format should I use
• Use the smallest size possible that preserves quality – In
general jpg for photos
• Resize to the published size
• Don’t resize on the fly • Set your Media Settings to match
your theme
• Gravatars: Check your Discussion Settings
• Video
– Use a service built to handle streaming video like
YouTube
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8. To Cache or not to Cache
• Once you have addressed Hosting, Theme and Plugin issues. Look at
Caching
• Which Plugin to use?
• W3 Total Cache
• WP Super Cache
Both Plugins are reliable with a solid history.
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9. Finding & Fixing Speed Issues
➢ Testing Your Site with External Tools
• Ismyblogworking.com
• Pingdom Tools
• Yslow (extensions for Firefox and Chrome)
• Page Speed from Google
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10. ➢ Strategic planning for content, communications and
community
➢ Campaign design and deployment services
➢ Conversation monitoring and optimisation
➢ Building and maintaining a social media newsroom.
➢ Establishing, integrating, and updating your presence in
media communities like Flickr and YouTube.
➢ Optimising Blogs and RSS feeds.
➢ Regularly submitting RSS feeds and Blogs to the latest
aggregators, news sites and social book marking sites.
➢ Recommendations for advertising and marketing
opportunities within social networking and media
communities.
➢ Influencer outreach and buzz-building tactics
Services We Offer
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