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A blogger always aims to optimize the loading speed of his WordPress blog. Speed plays a crucial factor in your blog popularity. With better speed, the user can be actively engaged in the blog for a longer time and it is also an important criterion in SEO. In this article, we will discuss 5 easy and effective steps to speed up your WordPress blog. Before you read this article, make sure you check the speed of your blog. After going through the points below apply them in your blog and recheck the speed. You will see the difference.<\/p>\n

1. Using a Premium or a Custom Theme<\/h2>\n

Everyone uses a theme in their blog, but the theme selection is never made after a careful consideration. You should never use free theme in your blog. They are never optimized for speed. You should always go for premium or paid themes; better still if you can design one if you have such knowledge. If a situation arises where you are forced to use a free theme, make sure you customize all the elements of the theme and optimize them for speed. My suggestion is using a responsive WordPress theme<\/strong><\/a> because it helps our site load faster and fit any screen size.<\/p>\n

\"responsive-wp-theme\"<\/a><\/p>\n

2. Using Minimum external Scripts<\/h2>\n

This is a crucial factor deciding your blog speed. No matter what web host you use or the CDN you may pay for, if there are too many external scripts, it can slow down a blog’s speed to a large extent. You should never clutter your blog with too many external scripts. You should only use scripts that are required and important, like Facebook, Google Analytics, etc. Make sure you prioritize and do not compromise the speed.<\/p>\n

3. Using Optimized images<\/h2>\n

You should always scale your images before uploading them in the blog. High resolution images are never good as they will take time when the page is downloading. Also never make a crowd by using unnecessary images in your blog. Bing and Google have officially suggested using images that are below 150 KB.<\/p>\n

4. Using a CDN<\/h2>\n

CDN stands for Content Delivery Network. It increases your site\u2019s security and speed by uploading a copy of your site in their server. It considerably reduces the loading time of the site when the users access it. There are many free and paid CDNs which can speed up your blog, you can check out the best CDN services<\/strong><\/a> here.<\/p>\n

5. Using Caching Plugins<\/h2>\n

Caching Plugins are supposed to increase the speed off the Word Press blog by almost 10X. There are some plugins which can actually help attain your sites such speed or even better. There are many caching plugins available. W3 Total Cache is one of the best available. It can do multiple jobs like minifying your HTML, CSS, leveraging WordPress Caching, object caching, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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