Is your website slow? Did you know that your site speed is a ranking factor in Google search results?
Speed of loading is extremely important for any website. It is observed that visitors tend to visit other links in the Google Search results, If your website does not load within seconds. We had the experience of losing about 40% of the visitors, when our website ran slow for about 10 %.
A few extra seconds could have a huge impact on your ability to engage visitors and make sales. This means that having a fast site is essential — not just for ranking well with Google, but for keeping your bottom-line profits high.
Having a slow running website is a nightmare because it can put potential customers off of buying through your site or readers from viewing your articles and information. After all, no one likes a website that runs slow and takes what seems like hours to load, do they?
When it comes to WordPress, many factors come into picture which affect the blog / website load speed. These things may not matter for the websites that serve static pages. All WordPress sites pages are rendered dynamically, loading the content from database.
Some important factors are
- Hosting Server, their uptime.
- PHP version.
- How powerful is the server in terms of resources.
- Availability of features like, sub domains, gzip compression.
- Speed of executing SQL queries.
We faced problems in the past of loosing visitors when the speed was not optimal.
A fast loading website can also get more page views, lesser bounce rates and higher conversions.
With our WordPress speed services, we strive to provide a minimum of 100% speed increase or get the sites to load within 4 seconds.
Here are some of the strategies we follow to increase page speed.
If you need professional help auditing your WordPress blog for this security issue, we are offering this service for $100 per one WordPress installation. We will get back to you at once and fix the issue in one business day.
WordPress is a wonderful blogging software for bloggers and businesses to promote their products. Unfortunately many WordPress sites have delayed response times. This can cause customers and readers not to return to their site.
In Conclusion
Website page load speed depends on a variety of factors such as unoptimized images, a high number of HTTP requests, bulky codes, and JavaScript issues to name a few. It can be a difficult task to figure out what exactly is causing the website to slow down. No matter what the root cause might be, you should leave no stones unturned to get to the bottom of the issue.
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