Speed Up Your Site Without Changing Host
Site sluggish? It’s time to take action.
Slow response times can harm your SEO and irritate your visitors.
The good news is that you can often improve your site’s speed without buying a new web hosting plan.
How to Speed Up a Slow Website
Databases, even when being used by the best content management systems, have a tendency to develop errors and become inefficient. In cPanel, look for phpMyAdmin. Log in and look for the repair and optimise options. It only takes a few seconds to see a marked improvement.
- No matter what CMS you use, plugins can slow your site down, even if they’re deactivated. The only way to truly get rid of a plugin is to delete it.
- Is your theme inefficient? It could be loading too many images or too much junk code. Take stock of your theme’s elements and remove those you don’t need. Your site will be better off for it.
- Caching can speed up a dynamic site by preventing your server from making unneeded database queries.
- Try a content delivery network (CDN) like CloudFlare.
More Actions to Speed Things Up
Lots of factors affect site speed: your host, your network, their network, temporary DNS problems and so on.
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