There is great interest in page speed because this feature of the site is directly involved in determining
the user experience.
Also in a direct or indirect way it is seriously taken into account by the Google algorithm.
Now loading speed depends on a myriad of technological factors but I would still like to give you the
set of methods which I generally apply.
First of all what is a good loading speed.
Google loves that T T F B time to first bite which corresponds to the time required to get the first
bite since the user's browser makes a request to the server best practices set this optimal value to
a maximum of zero point two seconds.
As you may have noticed this is a value very different from the total loading time of the page because
it only refers to the responsiveness of the server.
Obviously Google also considers the rest because that is what is directly involved in the user experience
for a total page loading time.
You can use online measurement tools such as ping them or GTD metrics rendering included in my sites.
I tend to stay in the range of one to two seconds considering these elements.
The server response to show the page javascript dependencies and CSF style sheets images fave icon and
iFrame.
For example a YouTube video.
Now let's see in practice what are the most useful tasks to speed up a site.
Considering that some will be particularly technical while others are for everyone G zip compression
this reduces the size of H to a male and C Ss and JavaScript dependencies to enable it enter a specific
code in the don't HD access file of your hosting images compress the files with external software like
tiny KPMG or apply the practice of lazy loading modification removing spaces commas and other useless
characters from the style sheets javascript and HDMI all help to reduce the size of the data to be transferred.
You'll find several free tools or WordPress plugins like WP fastest cache browser cache by visiting
10 or 20 pages the user's browser can download the J.S. and CSF files a locally in order to not have
to continually request them from the server in order to enable this functionality you will need to enter
a specific code in the dot HD access file of your hosting server cache.
I refer to varnish WordPress plugin like comment cache or other server side solutions to save every
page and make it immediately available to the user when it gets requested without having to continually
generate it from scratch multiple redirects.
I often see some pages with a series of 3 0 1 redirects but you need to know that in addition to diluting
that link juice they take time and the sum of all these times can result in a long unjustified wait
for the user.
Type of server based on the number of visitors and the type of content you can do all the optimizations
you want but a shared hosting could still be inadequate and you will need to switch to a VPN or even
a dedicated server with exclusive resources to better manage the requests of your visitors technology.
It is evident that using Wordpress joomla or other CRM as will be much heavier than a pure HCM l site
in terms of loading time.
The architecture choice has a significant impact on response times regardless of the type of server
you have updates.
Technology advances and new versions tend to be optimized for example in a recent benchmark made by
Kinston dot com.
It has been verified that with Wordpress 5 having P HP seven point three offered significantly better
performance with two hundred and fifty three point two requests per second compared to the classic HP
five point six with ninety one point six for requests per second which is still used in many servers.
Obviously we need to evaluate the deprecated functions and compatibility of plugins or other scripts
but it is certainly worth considering so far we have seen technical optimizations which should be done
only at the end but we have other equally effective implementations to apply from the beginning of a
project.
Light themes when you choose graphics you should opt for a small and fast loading template.
Otherwise you'll have a hard life trying to optimize it later.
Limit the plugins if you use WordPress from the beginning.
You should try to activate only the plugins that you really need.
Or you could merge them together for example instead of using three plugins for social sharing functionalities.
Just check if there is only one that already does everything restrict media.
It is important to use images or multimedia content in the pages but it is equally important not to
overdo it.
For example including 50 photos in a solar panel cost is obviously excessive and would only slow down
the page loading.
The same goes for YouTube video embeds since uploading 20 videos on one page doesn't make much sense.
Remove unnecessary dependencies when you remove some features from the template you just bought.
It happens to still have references to see SS and jazz files which only take up resources and slow down
loading time.
In this case you should proceed to remove them from the HTML code.