There are many methods that are useful to optimize the Websites and WordPress in the perception of Speed. Speed plays a prominent role in performing our tasks successfully in online. Let’s know the techniques we should use to Increase the speed of WordPress website.There are some plugins in Mozilla Firefox that evaluate the site perform against the rules. They don’t tell us what to do with the information they provide.
Let’s perform some operations to make the website faster.
Minify HTML, CSS, and Javascript
To make the users enjoy the speed and readability, the coding should be done in efficient manner. The spaces, tabs are good looking for a user but it’s not required for the coding analyst to have them in code. They need to erase all the tabs and spaces in the code to deliver better performance to the users.
Gzip and compress components
There is a simple editing of the code to make out files compressed by the webserver before sending them to visitors. This can deliver the files faster. Drop few lines of code in .htcaccess file to accomplish this.
#Begin gzip and deflate <IfModule mod_deflate.c> AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/css application/x-javascript text/plain text/xml image/x-icon <!--<span class="hiddenSpellError" pre=""-->IfModule>
This requires Apache webserver to execute it and the mod_deflate module. To enable gzip in NGINX, do the following. Include these LOC in the server.
server {
gzip on;
gzip_types text/html text/css application/x-javascript text/plain text/xml image/x-icon;
}
Use CSS Sprites
Instead of presenting many images on the design, better use a single image comprising of many other images. This needs to have a clever CSS to present the proper alignment when the page is loaded. There are many websites available to make CSS Sprites in effective manner. It’s better to use them for getting better performance with respect to speed.
Put scripts at the bottom
These are the steps that are needed to be followed by the designers.
- Users should get the content as early as possible.
- Don’t allow the extraneous styles to appear in the browser.
- Must load the files required for interaction.
Utilize browser caching
All the browsing information, we are suggesting browser to take care of certain files in the browser cache. When we need the same file, we need not go to webserver again, instead we can check it out in the local cache. The ExpiresByType directive is far useful to inform browser about the type of file and the time we are going to hang on it. Consider a .htcaccess file settings of an example,
<IfModule mod_expires.c> ExpiresActive On ExpiresByType text/html M3600 ExpiresByType text/css M3600 ExpiresByType application/x-javascript M3600 ExpiresByType image/bmp M3600 ExpiresByType image/gif M3600 ExpiresByType image/x-icon M3600 ExpiresByType image/jpeg M3600 </IfModule>
And the same example in NGINX would be quite different. Its like,
location ~* \.(jpg|png|gif|jpeg|css|js)$
{
expires 1h;
}
Put stylesheets at the top
We always try to give the best look to the users for the attractive display of our web content. For this to happen, load all the files that are required for the appearance on the top of your document. They should be loaded first for better appearance.
Choose <link> over @import
It’s better to link the files instead of importing them, while you are including the stylesheets. As some browsers never refuse to treat them as a reference that is present somewhere in the document.
Minimize the number of HTTP requests
We all know that, when someone visits your website, all the files must be sent to his browser. But some files like CSS and other scripts are known for designing the webpages in adorable manner. If we use WordPress, we identify some plugins that can inject some more CSS code in the head without user’s permission. It’s better for the user to remove such plugins for getting better services from the webserver.
Optimize and correctly display images
There is a chance of getting some pretty good problems due to the inexperience of particular field. We can observe the images contain a large size where it’s not actually supposed to have. It contains all the meta-data that adds you the extra size. It’s for the webmasters who doesn’t perform image optimization; it will finally cause a great load on the users especially for the slow designer PCs.
Use a Content Delivery Network (CDN)
CDN is used widely to make you website lighter than what actually it is. This is very much useful in increasing the search rankings even. This main mechanism behind it is to increase the productivity by making your site replicated and is distributed among various servers. They start distributing your site to actual users which decreases the load on the whole. CDN’s follow the better mechanisms for increasing the speed of websites.