DKSP EP:52 – 9 Simple and Easy Tips to Fix the Slow Page Load Times of Your WordPress Blogs
Summary: <br> The other day I was searching for a specific recipe that I had bookmarked some time back. I was on my mobile phone and I had to quickly access the recipe blog.<br> I clicked on the link and waited for the page to open. The wait went on for a few seconds and the page was still loading. Out of desperation, I closed the site and quickly switched to my laptop.<br> I went to my bookmarks and clicked on the link again. The site started loading. After some preliminary stuff had loaded the site was still loading. I waited because I was not able to do anything. My browser was stuck, the page wouldn’t scroll, nothing would click and nothing would move.<br> Guess what would have been my reaction – Frustration.<br> And out of frustration I closed the site and searched for other places where I could get hold of that recipe. I even deleted the bookmark because keeping that there was of no use.<br> Now, this is a situation where I knew about the blog and I was willing to give it a few minutes. Imagine if you are browsing to find something and you stumble upon such a site.<br> You are seeing the site for the first time.<br> What will be your reaction?<br> This is not an uncommon scenario. There are thousands of blogs and websites out there which take ages to load. Wise men say that a user will wait only for about 10 seconds before browsing off.<br> And if your site takes more than 10 seconds to load, the result is obvious – a lost reader.<br> So, what do you do about it?<br> Let us look at 9 Simple ways to speed up your blog’s page load times.<br> How to Speed up Your Page Load Times<br> Improving your page load time, is not as difficult as it sounds. There are a few simple tweaks that you can do which can <a href="http://www.marketmonkey.co/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">speed up your blog</a> load times considerably.<br> So you need to first assess your site load speed, which you can do by going to <a href="http://tools.pingdom.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">tools.pingdom.com</a> to understand the amount of tweaking you will do.<br> Check out the below image to see a snapshot for my blog.<br> <br> Now that you have assessed your site load speed, let us look at some simple tips to improve your site load speeds.<br> Selecting a Reliable Hosting Provider<br> Start with your hosting provider and your hosting plan. If you are using a shared host and they run a lot of websites on the same server, then there is no way your site is going to load fast.<br> Cheap hosting providers often do this and that is one of the primary reasons for a poor loading website.<br> Ensure that you are hosting your blog with a reliable hosting provider. <a class="thirstylink" title="Bluehost" href="https://dkspeaks.com/get/bluehost/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Bluehost</a>, <a class="thirstylink" title="Hostgator" href="https://dkspeaks.com/get/hostgator-shared-hosting/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Hostgator</a> and <a class="thirstylink" title="iPage" href="https://dkspeaks.com/get/ipageoffer-4/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">iPage</a> are some of the best hosting providers as per our experience.<br> They are reliable and they all provide you with a free CDN which helps in improving the page load times.<br> Use an Image Compression Plugin<br> If your blog is an image focussed one, then there is a high possibility that your high quality images are impacting your overall page load times.<br> Niche blogs in food blogging, fashion blogging etc. where there are a lot of images uploaded to a post, can face this problem.<br> There are 2 ways to get over it. Firstly, compress the images even before your upload them to your server. You can use a free service like <a href="http://optimizilla.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Optimizilla.com</a> to compress the images.<br>
