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Ebuka Val
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How to Speed Up WordPress Website

Speed is an essential part of the Page Experience Ranking Signal, your WordPress Website simply needs to load faster if you wish to get more SEO Traffic from Higher Rankings.

Before you go through the steps that I'm about to show you, you can use Pagespeed Insights to check the speed of your WordPress Website and then compare it to your site's speed after the optimization process.

If you noticed any improvement, do well to tell us in the comments so others now that this works.

Let's Take a look at How you can Speed Up your WordPress Website:

  1. Compress and Convert Images to Next Gen Formats (WebP or AVIF) using the Converter for Media WordPress Plugin.

  2. Enable Page Cache using Cache Plugins (preferrably WP Rocket), you don't need this if you already use Ezoic Leap and the Ezoic Caching App.

  3. Switch to a Good Hosting with fast server like Hostinger, if you understand the whole process of a loading a URL in a browser, you'll understand the need for a fast server.

  4. Use a Content Delivery Network (mostly prefer CloudFlare), A CDN typically stores a static version of your Website on servers all over the world, so whenever a user visits, your content on the server nearest to him or her will be displayed.

After implementing all these Speed optimization steps on your WordPress Website, did your site's speed improve? Let me know in the comments.

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