How to speed up your WordPress in 30 minutes

The speed of our WordPress depends on many factors such as the power of our hosting, the chosen theme, DNS response times, among other rather technical issues. 

But today we want to tell you what things you can do yourself in a super simple way to accelerate the speed of our WordPress.

1. Keep everything updated

Every update released by the developers comes with performance improvements, increased stability, and new features that we can't miss. So the first thing we should do is keep our system up to date. Of course, before doing so we recommend making a backup in case something breaks. You can easily make a backup with All In One WP Migration.

2. Limit the number of plugins:

Install only the plugins that you really need and before installing one or the other compare their performance. There are many very common plugins that consume a lot such as plugins for social networks, SEO, Sliders, among other trinkets that end up slowing down our website.

3. Optimize your images

Try to find the perfect balance between quality and weight of your images. The less your images weigh the better. There are plugins that automatically compress the images when uploading them as Resize Image After Upload, but with any software like Photoshop you can optimize your images before uploading them.

4. Take care of your images

We must carefully take care of each image that we are going to upload so that it supports our positioning. Details such as the weight of the image, that they are correctly named, and that you use the ALT tag to describe the image are extremely important details.

5. Optimize your home page

The home page is the most visited on your website so focus on it first. As long as you can avoid Sliders, eliminate unnecessary widgets, do not show complete posts, and be very careful with the quality and quantity of images. Optimizing this page will also help us a lot in terms of SEO positioning.

7. Install WP Optimize

This plugin will allow you several essential things for the speed of your website:

• It will optimize the database for you and clean the revisions that you don't need.
• It will activate the cache, significantly reducing the loading time.
• It will compress the HTML, CSS and Javascripts of your website.

That's all now! Tell us how you have done after applying these tips.