If you are managing a WordPress website you might face some difficulties to speed up your WordPress website. Don’t worry about it in this article we will provide a step-by-step guide to speed up your WordPress website. 

There are a lot of ways to boost up WordPress website speed. If you are a website owner or a freelancer you might be interested in learning all possible ways to increase the speed of WordPress website. Besides using different plugins there are a lot of other tactics also available to increase your WordPress website speed and provide a smooth experience to your users.

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For a better understanding of this procedure, we have divided it into three main steps:-

1. Plugins for optimization
2. Best Light-weight themes
3. Some other techniques

First of all, we will discuss about plugins that will definitely help you to increase the speed of your WordPress website.

Plugins to speed up your WordPress website:-

For better understanding, we have divided the plugin part into two main sections. i.e. Image Optimization plugins & Cache plugins. You can use any one of the plugins from each section.

• Image optimization plugins
  • reSmush.it
  • WP Smush
  • ShortPixel Image Optimizer
  • Compress JPEG & PNG images
• Cache Plugins
  • Lite speed cache
  • W3 Total Cache
  • WP Rocket
  • WP Super Cache

Image Optimization Plugins:-

There are a lot of plugins available that you can use to optimize your images. I personally prefer reSmush.it but you can use any plugin of your choice. It basically automatically reduces the size of images on your site. If you are also using reSmush.it just keep the index from 70 to 75 so that the quality of images never drops.

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Following plugins might help you to optimize images on your website:

1. reSmush.it
2. WP Smush
3. ShortPixel Image Optimizer
4. Compress JPEG & PNG images

Cache plugins:-

Cache plugins help to increase the speed of a website by creating a cache version of your website. When a user visits your website it creates browser cache so that next time user visits your website they can serve faster. I personally use LiteSpeed cache to speed up my WP website but you can use any plugin of your choice.

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Following plugins might help you to enable cache on your WordPress website:

1. Lite speed cache
2. W3 Total Cache
3. WP Rocket
4. WP Super Cache

Best Light-weight themes to speed up your WordPress website:-

Nowadays there are a lot of themes available in the WordPress repository. But it’s a fact that not all themes are optimized and they contribute a lot to the speed of your website. If you are still customizing your website, you should think twice before choosing a theme for your WordPress website. Choosing a theme with unnecessary functionality might affect the speed of your website. There are some light-weight themes available that will definitely help you to optimize your website.

Following are some of the light-weight themes for WordPress websites:-

1. Astra
2. Wp Ocean
3. Neve 
4. StudioPress 
5. Elementor Hello Theme

Some other techniques to speed up your WordPress website:-

Besides using some optimization plugins there are also some other techniques that might help to speed up your WordPress website. Here is the list of best techniques to boost your WP website speed:

1. Using a CDN(Cloudflare)
2. Uploading images in Jpg format
3. Choosing a good hosting service
4. Remove unnecessary plugins

Conclusion:-

Now you are aware of the techniques to optimize WordPress website. Besides these tasks, you can also monitor and optimize your WP website by using GT Matrix or Page Speed Insights.