As you may have heard Google has implemented a new criteria to that will help determine your rankings on search results, SPEED. And although it appears that the first wave of implementation is only affecting a few people, increasing the speed of your website is hugely important not just for your search rankings.
There are many ways you can speed up your WordPress Installation, here are a few I have or am currently working on to improve the speed of WPExplorer and hopefully bring you a better experience and of course increase my rankings on the BIG-G.
First I will provide some basic site design tools to help decrease your sites loading time, than I will provide you with some great WP plugins and finally with some extra tips to keep your site BLAAAZING.
Site Design Tips
WordPress Site Speed Plugins
Other Web Site/Wordpress Speed Tips
Of course ultimately the relevance of your website will always be the most important thing in getting higher rankings in Search Engines, however if you can make your site faster do it! Here is a short clip of Matt Cutts from Google answering this question better than me.
Some nice tips. Smush.it become one of my fav from last few months. Also I will suggest use Image sprites, try to lower down the DNS lookups…
I personally use Super cache plugin, but heard W3 Cache is also good..Not sue about this….
Great tips! Thanks!
Never heard of smush it, think it’s the thing which is going to change a lot for me ! Thank you by the way !!
I’ve recently heard about it too and the difference is incredible and the images look the same. Yahoo doesn’t get a whole lot of attention but I guess they do have some cool stuff..
Unfortunately, Yahoo changed its API and the Smush.it plugin isn’t working anymore at the time…
wow, thanks for the heads up. It was working just a few days ago. What a bummmer!
I really like the jQuery Image Lazy Load Plugin. It has nice effect and of course, decrease the blog time load. I haven’t tried the Hyper Cache plugin, but it’s not mentioned much as W3 Total Cache, created by a guy of Mashable. I’m using W3 Total Cache, and see it works very well.
The reason I am using Hyper Cache is from a benchmarking test I found on a website..could be wrong. But it has been working nicely for me.
Hi you. My plugin “External Nofollow” has been approved on WordPress.org. I’m happy to let you know
. This is the link to the plugin.
Thanks for your advice
Yeah, speed is very important thing for our website. Your tips is great but one thing we must do its not using so many not important widget
great tips.
thank you.
Great tips, I did not know that Google was ranking by speed now, that is interesting!
o Thanks also for the plugin recommendation.
Thanks, good tips