If you’re gonna be serving up your delicious blog content to untold numbers of hungry seekers, readers, watchers & buyers, so you can change their lives and cash in on the vast quantities of riches to be had in the prosperous age of the information gold rush, the first thing to know is…
Search engines will flush your entire website down the drain of the world wide toilet, if your pages take forever to load.
This is why I invested a few hours yesterday, optimizing the page speed of my handy dandy WordPress blog. 🙂
By the time my head hit my pillow last night, all the pages of PaulHutchings.net were shooting lightning strikes of goodness off the screens to visitors faster than a bullet on a freight train.
I started the day with my pages loading in the 40’s & 50’s red zone (that’s like an F on a test), and finished dang near 100% (more like an A+++).
This is the video with the wizard to watch if you wanna do what I did, A – Z, but if you’re crunched on time, I’ll list a few of the ninja tips below the video so you can speed up your website in a flash.
- Use Google page speed insights to test pages.
- Start with a blank post – Yes, create a new blank post and test that first. This will allow you to optimize all the stuff that loads on EVERY page/post of your site like header, footer, sidebar videos & code, etc.
- AFTER you have your blank post blazing along, move over to individual pages/posts.
- *Use A.I. tools like chatgpt to help you digest what the google page test is telling you so you can enhance the elements as instructed.
- Optimize images for web – I guess nowadays, webp format is the file type to use for images. Back when I was your age, boys and girls, we used to walk uphill in the snow and all we had for website photos was .png and .jpeg. My, my – how the times have changed.
- Shrink to smaller file size – https://kraken.io/
- Convert to webp format using free tools online like this.
- Use a lightweight WordPress theme – the video above has a list of themes that are light and fast. Thankfully, I have generate press on this site, and that was on the list. (I think they have a free version too).
- Install a WP Performance Plugin – I installed the one recommended in the video above called WP-Rocket and saw a pretty nice bump in speed thanks to some of the ‘out of the box’ settings.
- Keep rinsing and repeating using that Page Speed insights tool above until you have your site & pages SPRINTING across the information highway,
… and you’ll be all set to begin posting content on your blog that google will love to show in the search results because they know your digital speed of delivery will shock, awe and delight all those online searchers throughout the world.
Till next time,
Paul
PS: Do you have a blog? How fast are your pages loading? Run a quick test with this and let me know in the comments below. I was beside myself yesterday, when I realized how painfully slow my pages were. SMH
PPS: If you don’t yet have a blog, and want one, we have some step by step training available on how to set one up in our Premium Traffic & Conversions Academy. You can get access here for $1.
