How to make Wordpress faster

While the time it takes a site to view pages has become a positioning factor for Google (not the most important, but not insignificant), one can ask oneself how to speed up a site under Wordpress, while speed mainly depends on CMS.
But you can make it faster, however, by optimizing.

Hide Pages

This is the easiest way, as well as the most incomprehensible. Caching avoids repeated access to the database to find the same information. There are installation plugins for this.

List of recently updated cache plugins:

The following definition in wp-confist.php is recommended by some blogs or even very popular sites:

define('ENABLE_CACHE', true); // OBSOLETE

In fact, it has not been implemented since version 2.5 (which has existed for three years!) It is no longer valid. On the other hand, it is assumed that this other definition has it, but only in combination with one of the permanent cache plugins mentioned above:

 define('WP_CACHE', true)

Disable changes

While you are editing the wp-config.php file, disable revisions so that the database does not grow unnecessarily, which also slows down data access .

define('WP_POST_REVISIONS',false);

Clear Theme

Choosing a completely predefined theme can have disadvantages, as it contains a lot of information, graphic or implicit elements, each of which is useful for one type of site, but does not use yours.

Therefore, it is worth seeing the source code and carefully removing unnecessary fields and meth, which makes pages easier and promotes immediate display.
If it seems too complicated, it's best to try other, less overloaded topics.

This topic provides a lot of information. Example site name:

<?php echo bloginfo(name); ?>

This is normal, since the topic is designed for different sites and the name is not known. But you know the name of your site and you can place this name directly:

Monsite.com

Similarly, for a character set, it never changes on the same site:

<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="<?php bloginfo('html_type') ?>; charset=<?php bloginfo('charset') ?>" />
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">

You only need to save PHP calls that depend on the displayed article, such as its title.

Clear plugins

Remove all unused or non-core plugins. More specifically, statistics plugins tend to saturate the database and slow down the display.

Select Images

Use the most appropriate image format. GIF and PNG are suitable for drawing, JPG for photographs. Try to recreate the images, because even with the appropriate file format, the tools are not equal in performance.
And when in JPG images, increasing the compression ratio sometimes changes little when it comes to image quality and much to size.

At the same time, it is better when the image is not the main topic of the article, replace it with a thumbnail that will press the button to see the image in real size. It's something Wordpress handles very well.

Reducing dependency

While some services, such as Analytics, are necessary, many are not necessarily necessary. Depending on other sites is the best way to slow down your own and sometimes even block it when another site is unresponsive.

But if you want to place JavaScript code tied to services, such as social sites, put this code at the end of the page so that it is shown before it can be blocked.

WordPress Optimization

The dashboard contains several settings that can speed up the display. Among them:

Conclusion

The last thing you can do to optimize your site is to reduce the length of the text by summarizing it or dividing the article.
Dividing the article, I mean dividing the topic into two topics, each of which may deserve its own article. Breaking an article into multiple pages, as is often done to show more ads, is a different story. It is customary to forget that the popularity of the site depends primarily on the satisfaction of readers.

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