If you’re a WordPress enthusiast like I am, you’ve probably encountered the issue of making your WordPress website faster.
Yes, I’ve spent plenty of time figuring this out, and in this article, I’ll share some tips I use to speed up WordPress sites and have an Faster WordPress Website.
Faster Hosting, Faster Site
It may seem obvious, but it’s true: the quality of hosting directly affects at least half of a site’s performance.
Therefore, your hosting must support a good amount of processing power and simultaneous traffic. In other words, it needs to handle the load.
But before choosing hosting, it’s important to consider the type of website you want to create.
A small static website requires fewer resources than a blog or an online store, for instance.
Types of Hosting
Check out the recommended hosting types for making your WordPress site faster, based on what your site needs.
Shared Hosting
Shared Hosting is the most common type, and most websites use this model.
It involves a server that shares its resources with multiple websites, meaning that speed and space tend to be limited for each site.
This is suitable for small sites or blogs with low traffic, mainly for sites that are under development or just starting out.
There are many affordable hosting options in Brazil for those just getting started. I’ll list some at the end of the article.
Cloud Hosting
As the name suggests, Cloud Hosting uses cloud-based servers, where resources are dedicated and not shared.
Basically, your website isn’t hosted on just one server, but spread across multiple servers in various locations.
With Cloud Hosting, a WordPress site becomes faster due to better processing speed and support for more simultaneous visitors.
Additionally, the companies providing this service offer easy-to-use management panels that don’t require much technical knowledge.
Cloud hosting is perfect for high-traffic blogs and online stores, as it provides higher performance.
VPS Hosting
VPS Hosting (Virtual Private Server) acts like a dedicated server, but virtually.
It’s a high-performance physical server that runs multiple virtual servers, each with its dedicated virtual resources.
In analogy, a VPS server is like a neighborhood (physical server), divided into lots (virtual servers) that occupy different areas (consume different resources).
With VPS Hosting, it’s possible to create custom servers tailored to each need, but it requires advanced technical knowledge.
VPS servers are also ideal for blogs and online stores with significant processing demands.
Hosting Recommendation
In my projects and for client websites, I’ve had the opportunity to explore various hosting providers.
For ease of use, performance, and support, the company I trust for my hosting needs is Hostinger.
Hostinger offers good plans and excellent customer support, which has always been exceptional.
Hostinger Hosting Benefits
Hostinger provides free SSL, daily backups, cache management, CDN network, and much more. It’s definitely worth considering.
If you need quality hosting, I’ll leave some links below:
Lighter Theme, Faster Site Loading
One of WordPress’s greatest features is its vast and collaborative community of developers. This allows for an extensive array of tools available.
A quick search will show you that WordPress powers online stores, marketplaces, complex applications, and amazing blogs. All of this is thanks to the community that develops themes for WordPress.
Whether purchased, customized, or freely available, the theme also affects your site’s speed and requires some careful consideration when choosing.
TIP – If you’re unsure which theme to choose for your project or need a professional to develop your site, feel free to contact me [here].
Using Cache for Faster WordPress Loading
To understand caching, you need to understand how WordPress works and how it distributes pages from your site.
When a user accesses your site’s homepage, the server generates a file with the page’s code to be downloaded into the user’s browser.
Caching creates files with this code, so when another user visits the site, the server doesn’t need to regenerate the file each time. Instead, it serves the previously generated file.
There are several free plugins available to manage cache:
Plugins and Faster Sites
WordPress plugins offer solutions for endless purposes, which is amazing!
On the other hand, an excess of plugins has a significant impact on the site’s speed. You need to know how to use the appropriate plugins and keep them to a minimum.
To load pages, WordPress must include the code for each active plugin. Therefore, the more plugins you use, the more code will be added. As a result, your site becomes slower.
Use plugins in moderation!
Images – The Biggest Enemy of Fast Websites
As I mentioned in the article “What is SEO?“, images have a significant impact on how quickly a website loads.
Use images sparingly. Only use images when necessary, and make sure they are optimized and lightweight.
Heavy images consume a lot of loading time, which is why they cause such a big impact. When combined with a slow server, that means certain slowness.
Conclusion
In this article, you’ve seen that to make Faster WordPress Website, it’s important to pay attention to many details. Therefore, a qualified professional is essential for this process.
Click here to explore the solutions I offer for WordPress website performance.
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