If you want to make your website faster then, here’s some tricks:
- Upgrading PHP version: If your current PHP version is less than 7, upgrade it to version 7+. If you don’t know how to do it, ask your hosting provider to do it for you.
- Use HTTPS/SSL: HTTPS has certain advantages regarding loading speed, besides Google recommends it for better SEO. Activate HTTPS in your website. If you don’t know how to do it, get help from your hosting provider.
- Optimize Images: Optimizing images means reducing the image size without losing quality. There are many online tools (For example: https://tinypng.com/) from where you can optimize images very easily. Please optimize images using these tools before uploading it, into the website.
- Page Caching Plugin: Use a better page caching plugin. You can try “Autoptimize” and “Cache Enabler” plugin together. If you are going to use “Autoptimize“, make sure to turn on the HTML, CSS and JavaScript optimization option.
- Speed Testing Tool: Finally to measure the loading speed you can use the Pingdom website here: https://tools.pingdom.com. Keep in mind that loading speed varies depending on which location you set on that website. To get the accurate result always choose the location same/nearby as your website server location.