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Improving Page Load Speed on My WordPress Site

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I’m working on optimizing the loading speed for my website’s blog section to improve user engagement. With an increasing number of blog posts, I’ve noticed a drop in performance, which may be impacting the user experience.

I’m interested in any tips or recommendations for improving load times, particularly if anyone has experience with handling large content libraries efficiently. Are there specific settings, tools, or coding best practices that work well to keep a blog section fast and responsive?

Any advice or shared experiences would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

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More info and tips than you need in https://www.google.com/search?q=wordpress+increase+page+load+speed .

CONVERT images from png/jpeg to webp format

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you can search on google for jpg/png to webp converter and upload the converted images to blog post for a fast load time and user experience. thanks later

Don’t load everything perhaps and watch those image sizes

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Don’t load all posts at once – paginate or use some sort of lazy loading/infinite loading (where more posts are loaded as you keep scrolling.)

Watch image sizes – I’ve seen countless sites upload multi megabyte images expecting WordPress or an image optimizer will fix the problem (hint: they won’t). Resize images to the size needed before uploading (think KB vs MB) and even optimize those beforehand as well (here’s a decent tool for doing that: https://tinyjpg.com)

Consider WebP over JPG for even smaller size images.

If you’re hosting videos I’d advise hosting them offsite – use Youtube, Vimeo or a CDN.
Self-hosted videos will slaughter the IO on your site.

Consider using a CDN to take the weight off your site.

Consider caching (big subject, but hosted caching is better than plugin, plugin is better than nothing).

If your theme is hand-crafted, check your post loop isn’t doing anything it doesn’t need to be doing.

Optimize your database – do you have a ton of post revisions in your DB?
Yyou can use a plugin such as wp-sweep to check or get rid of them (backup backup backup first).
You can also limit post revisions in wp-config using: define(‘WP_POST_REVISIONS’, x); where x is the # of revisions you want to keep.

Lastly, check your site for malware (e.g. Sucuri, Wordfence) if there’s a worm in there it will drag your site down.

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