{"id":3338,"date":"2020-07-23T11:17:29","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T11:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essentials.pixfort.com\/knowledge-base\/?p=3338"},"modified":"2024-01-04T01:57:29","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T01:57:29","slug":"how-to-speed-up-your-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentials.pixfort.com\/knowledge-base\/how-to-speed-up-your-website\/","title":{"rendered":"How to speed up your website?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Website loading speed is a priority for the overall user experience, and it\u2019s also one of the hundreds of SEO ranking factors. Page speed may depends on many different factors, however, following the essential recommended tips will make a significant difference on page loading speed. Here you will find a list of best practices to follow when creating and optimising your website:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row pix_particles_check=””][vc_column] After updating the theme<\/strong> and pixfort core<\/strong> plugin go to Theme options to and click the Save<\/strong> button to refresh theme options values.<\/p>\n To\u00a0enable updates for Essentials theme<\/b>, you can check this article: Also, installing Slider revolution<\/strong> or Master slider<\/strong> add a lot of stylings and scripts into all the pages of the website even if the sliders are not used in the pages.<\/p>\n We recommend you to check and delete all the unused plugins from WordPress admin panel > Plugins<\/strong>.[\/vc_column_text] https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/tiny-compress-images\/[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row pix_particles_check=””][vc_column] Page load times can be significantly improved by asking visitors to save and reuse the files included in your website.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Reduces page load times for repeat visitors<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n Particularly effective on websites where users regularly re-visit the same areas of the website<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n Benefit-cost ratio: high<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n Access needed<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n You can enable caching on your website in different way, you can use one of the premium plugins to speed up your website, for example you can check WP Rocket plugin which is tested with Essentials to give great results:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text] You can also check other free plugins which provide caching options capabilities.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row pix_particles_check=””][vc_column] The smaller your files, the faster your pages will load. Compression files is one of the easiest ways to reduce load times, and today, enabling compression with <\/span>Gzip<\/a><\/strong> is considered standard practice.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Gzip is a file format and software application that essentially locates strings of similar code in your text files, then temporarily replaces them to make the files smaller.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Gzip will reduce the size of files sent from your server to increase the speed to which they are transferred to the browser.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nUpdate the Theme and and included plugins<\/h5>
\nhttps:\/\/essentials.pixfort.com\/knowledge-base\/how-to-update-essentials-theme\/<\/b><\/a>[\/vc_column_text]Remove unused plugins<\/h5>
Reduce image sizes<\/h5>
Enable browser caching<\/h5>
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\nEnable gzip compression (Advanced)<\/h5>
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