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Speeding Up WordPress HOW TO SPEED UP YOUR WORDPRESS WEBSITE – IN 3 EASY STEPS

How to Speed Up Your WordPress Website in 3 Easy Steps

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Speeding Up WordPressHOW TO SPEED UP YOUR WORDPRESS WEBSITE – IN 3 EASY STEPS

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Why does a fast-loading website matter?Two primary reasons:

1. User experience. Nobody wants to wait around while a website loads.1. Wait too long – BAM! They’re gone.

2. Search engines, especially Google. They place a premium on fast-loading web pages.1. Page loads are slow? There goes your rankings.

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Speed Up WordPress – Step #1Get a CDN (Content Distribution Network)

1. Cloudflare

2. Cloudfront (Amazon)

3. Max CDN

Follow your CDN’s process to the “T”

1. If you don’t, bad things WILL happen

2. Install the Cloudflare plugin for WordPress (otherwise your stats won’t have any meaning)

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Speed Up WordPress – Step #2Use a “Minify” plugin OR Do-It-Yourself

I will use Better WordPress Minify1. Because I’m lazy

2. I might mess something up

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Speed Up WordPress – Step #3Get a Caching plugin

I am using ZenCache at the moment

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Speed Up WordPress – Step #4 (optional)Optimize your images

Turn off all unneeded plugins

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