Having a fast website is important. If your website takes a long time to load, your visitors will probably not hang around to find out whether your content is great or not. It doesn't matter if you have the best looking website on WA and write better blog posts than anyone else. If your website is slow, you are wasting your time.
So open up an Incognito window in Chrome or a Private Browsing window in Firefox and visit your website. Does it load quickly? it should load within a few seconds. Click around and view several posts/pages. Do they load quickly, or are you sat waiting for each page to appear?
Here are some things that are worth looking at:
- GTMetrix.com can show you what might be slowing down your website.
- P3 will show you if any of your plugins are particuarly slow.
- Fastest Cache will help to speed your site up.
- Autoptimize can also help.
- So can EWWW Image Optimizer
If you're really struggling with a slow website, I recommend you go through my in-depth training about it:
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