Have you ever wanted to update your WordPress blog only to be slowed down by a web page that continuously hangs or not responsive? This may be a result of the number of large files your website needs to load.
Broken plugins, broken themes or inefficient coding might also be contributing to the problem.
However, regardless of the reasons, here are some tips you might want to take note of to speed up your WordPress blog.
First up, you might want to think of upgrading your blog to the latest WordPress version.
Upgrades involve several performance enhances and they also fix bugs and malwares that might slow down your server.
Of course choosing the right web hosting service is crucial too.
Choose a web host that is suitable for running WordPress.
Do take the time to read the reviews and customer testimonials on web hosting review sites such as 100webhosting.
com.
If you are unsure as to the type of web hosts you should choose, you can check out WordPress's web hosting recommendation page.
Think about reducing the number of external objects too.
This involves compressing CSS files, Compressing JavaScript files, and the likes.
Try to avoid these files unless they are really needed, as they take up space and this in turn, slows down your blog.
Another way to reduce the number of external components is to just combine similar files into one file.
The next one might be a no brainer, but it merits mention nevertheless: reduce the size of your images! Web servers may be built to take on more, but the amount of information and images the users upload have also grown in size and numbers.
Reducing the size of images should help speed up your blog by a mile.
To reduce the size of your images, all one needs is an image editing software which will help you to reduce the height and width of you picture and save the picture with a good enough quality for web use.
This enables you to add more pictures without overloading your server.
Plugins! Pay close attention to the ones you don't use and disable them in the plugins section of WordPress.
The general rule is that the less plugins you have, the greater loading speed you will get.
So deactivate and delete the ones you don't use.
Other than that, optimizing your MySQL database can make a huge difference on your loading time, more so if you have a huge database.
MySQL is a great database system, and optimizing it is relatively simple.
All you have to do is log into PhpMyAdmin, locate your WordPress database tables, make a backup first then check all the tables with the check boxes, select the optimize tables option and you're done.
The aforementioned tips, if carried out wisely should be of immense help to those with a slow WordPress blog.
Don't wait, action on my tips above and you will get a speedier WordPress blog.