You’ll definitely get your ranking lowered with a slow website speed. In case you weren’t aware, Google has page speed in its top 200 ranking factors. So, if your site doesn’t load fast, your website will rank very low in search engine result pages (SERPs).

One of the awesome tools for running a web page test is Google’s WebPageTest. You can leverage this tool as well when you want to run a test for your own website. If your site ranking is comparatively low compared to the industry average, then your site needs to be updated.

You can increase your site speed simply by:

  • Enabling cache
  • Using a simple website template
  • Optimizing images

Enable Cache

By authorizing cache, you’ll successfully increase the loading speed of your website when people want to access any of the pages.

When you’ll have authorized cache on your website, the people who visit will save the components of your site on their own storage device in a cache or on any other removable storage device. When they visit next, their browser will load the pages fast and wouldn’t require disseminating the entire HTTP requirements to the server.

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Thanks for stopping by, Neptune! Your comment is valuable and deeply appreciated! Increasing site speed is one of the top 200 ranking signals in Google's search algorithms. This will help you boost your Google PageRank. Thanks for your lovely visit!

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Great overall advice, Israel.
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Much welcome, Jetrbby! Much impressed! I recommended your training to others. You did a great deal of work, friend. Kudos! See you at the top of the online world soon!
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Cynthia1423 Premium
Also I want to know what do you think about a plugin called W3 Total Cache, doing research and found this article that says it helps with website speed.
Thanks
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Hello Cynthia, I'm not used to that plugin at all but can investigate the plugin called W3 Total Cache for you if you wouldn't mind. In the meantime, kindly go through Jetrbby's training for more detailed strategies on how you can improve your site speed. Israel Olatunji
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Thanks Israel, I don't mind at all, going through Jetrbby's training now.
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Glad to hear from you, Cynthia! Much impressed!
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Marley2016 Premium
Israel,
My site speeds were all at 100% until I used a contact form
from WP as a plugin I do not want to take this away because
it is needed, also I am finding videos are lowing the site
speed what can be done to correct this do you know I do
not want to lower speeds but this is happening now with only
5 plugins with the WP form and 6 with the TablePress
lowering my speeds to 90% and 70%?
Thanks,
Susan
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Israel17 Premium
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Hello Marley, sorry about the site speed issue! Experientially, the number of plugins does not impact the loading speed of your site as such. I've seen people with more than 10 plugins installed on their sites and the speed is awesome, whereas, I've seen people with only 4 or 5 plugins installed and the speed is extremely slow.

This proves that it's not due to the number of plugins as such, but other factors such as reducing the size of an image which negatively impacts the page load times. Make sure you do the scaling appropriately, enable caching, use simple site designs, and all of that.

I recommend Jetrbby's training for more strategies: Israel Olatunji
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Cynthia1423 Premium
Hello Israel,
I do have EWWW Image Optimizer plugin and I checked my site on Google's WebPage test didn't have any problems there.
I don't understand what is a Cache?

I am experiencing slow load times on mobile devices according to site health its 38 percent. I did reach out and ask IT but they referred me to the Program Developer, as I stated to them I am not a Developer, so I need things to be explain in layman's terms.

Thanks for any feed back to help me
Cynthia,
Cheers!
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Israel17 Premium
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Good to know that there's no issue with your site speed on a desktop device, Cynthia! Much impressed! By simply enabling cache, using a simple website design, as well as optimizing images, you'll improve your loading speed on mobile devices too. Cache is a combination of identical items stored in an inaccessible place.

A website is essentially made up of a certain number of files that are appropriate together to create a series of pages. Some of these will contain images, the main body or introduction of a blog post, while others will contain fashionable information for page elements such as footer, header, sidebar, and all of that.

If you need any further help, don't hesitate to let me know. I also recommend Jetrbby's training for more strategies. Check the link above.

Israel Olatunji
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