7 ways to Optimize Page Load Time on WordPress

Speeding up your website is one of the many topics that you are interested in, especially for newbies coming to the WordPress website. Because of this, apart from helping the user to have the best experience, it also affects SEO.

1. Select good hosting/server.

To make a professional website, without that much technical requirements, WordPress is an option almost absolute for everyone. You will need to prepare a fee to buy a domain and hosting to help make things more professional and kind.

So, from the beginning, you should determine that if you make a professional website then invest a bit for this. There are many discount coupons from the prestigious hosting providers such as LiquidWeb, Turnkey Internet, Hosting24, ...

Choose a shared host if you are new.

If you're new to web hosting, the shared host with Cpanel manager will be your choice, as it's easy to use and lots of tutorials on the net.

You should choose where the server is located near traffic source. For example, if you make a website for Chinese visitors, the server located in Hong Kong, Singapore or Tokyo will be better.

In addition, you should consider other configurations of hosting, such as server storage, RAM, CPU, etc.

Switch to VPS if needed

You make the site long time, know how to develop the site and have more and more traffic, the investment for a better server site with smooth speed, fast is essential.
You do good website traffic, every day several hundred to one thousand visitors don't worry that investing $10 - $20/month for the server smoothly for the site is expensive.

Currently, there are VPS Server vendors are very good and popular such as Vultr, DigitalOcean, Linode,...

2. Use optimized themes for WordPress

There are currently two themes vendors that you recommend that you use: Genesis (including the Genesis Framework and Child Theme), and Mythemeshop.

The 2 themes that I mentioned above are very easy to use for newbies. In particular, if to optimize speed for WordPress website, rank 1 still belongs to Genesis

3. Do not greedy install rampant plugins!

During the making of the website, you see what people install, then you also want install, with no consideration of whether the plugin is really necessary or not. Lead to the situation when a simple website that nearly 20-30 plugins slow server is inevitable.

4. Use excerpt/collapse.

If you do not customize anything then default WordPress will display the entire article content + images in the article to the home page and Archives Page. This will cause your Homepage, Page Tags, Page Categories, and other archives to load very slowly and significantly reduce the user experience on your site.

5. Don't upload music or video directly to the host.

In order for your post to have videos that you want readers to see, you can upload them directly to the website through Add Media and it will be displayed. But: Why do you upload to a host when there are so many other music and video storage, such as Youtube, Vimeo, ...?

6. Cache plugins.

Use caching to accelerate the page load speed for your website. It works by saving the cache to people who have visited your site, thus speeding up the page load for your subsequent visits more quickly.

The recommended Cache plugins are:

• W3 Total Cache
• WP Rocket.

7. Optimize the image properly.

If you are uploading large images directly to the article, it will be easy to downtime host, when users visit, the page load speed will be very long and affect the experience. This case is a lot of you encounter because almost new people are taking the image found on the Internet and inserted into the article without regard to the image is heavy