How To Speed Up A WordPress Page Loading

byAussieJeff

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5 years ago

Learn how to speed up your WordPress Page Loading speeds by using one simple trick that I figured out after many frustrating weeks of trying to figure out why my page scores were dropping for mobile in Google Page Speed Insights.

How To Speed Up A WordPress Load Time

I finally discovered how to speed up my WordPress Load Time was actually staring me in the face but when you are faced with website page speed drops of over 16 points in Google Page Speed Insights, commonsense can often fly out the window.

I did the usual 'Plugin' checks but as I didn't add any new ones and all the others were working together like they should, my stress levels soared...

Why My WordPress Site Is Slow

After a couple of weeks of loosing sleep about the speed of my website, I finally had an atiimpeney of why my WordPress Site is slow!

After hearing that you should load the very first image on your posts near the head of your website with an PNG Image because the Kraken Tool reduces the size of images a lot more using PNG Images, I preceded to load 20 posts using this method.

It wasn't too much further down the track when I thought to myself - could the PNG images that I loaded near the header of my website, actually be slowing down my WordPress load time?

It turns out that by loading PNG Images as your first image does slow down your website loading speed...

So I went about doing a test where I replaced the first PNG image with a JPEG, and the results were amazing.

How To Speed Up A WordPress Website

The secret to site load time is often obscured by other factors how to speed up a WordPress Website but other times it can be staring us in the face without knowing it.

So by replacing all my first PNG Images with JPEG s, my site speed jumped up to where it was before this calamity happened.

I hope this blog post has helped out as we all know these days, the speed of your WordPress site is so vital to getting higher rankings with Google.

Leave me a comment below if your website speed is lacking and how you fix the problem for all the other wonderful members here at Wealthy Affiliate.