Creating a website is not a simple task and after that you have to many tweaks to make it search engine friendly. As you all know Google considers website speed as one of the ranking factors the more faster your site speed the more visibility you get in Google search ranking. Studies show that users leave a site if it hasn’t loaded in 4 seconds. Now days too many website are created and if you want to rank above all of them then you have to make your website faster & consider many factors like :
- Design of your website
- Avoid Coding Errors
- Server response from your hosting provider
- Image Optimization
- Social Outreach
- Caching Methods (Plugins)
- Enable compression (GZip)
- Many More
Done many things and still not able to get enhance site experience..Don’t worry we have a perfect solution for your website speed and make it much faster and it only takes 5 min. Yes you heard right only 5 min. to setup and your site will become really fast.
Site Speed Test :
We have performed our site speed test via Pingdom Tools & GTMetrix before implementing any changes in our site. Check out screenshot below :
1). Pingdom Test Before:
2). GTMetrix Test Before:
Increase Your Website Speed :
To make it user-friendly and easy to understand to new ones who just started their hands on wordpress. We have only implemented the two services to make our site load faster. Services are as follows:
1). SiteGround Hosting (Hosting Provider)
SiteGround hosting, you can take advantage of our cloud platform in order to host your website, without having to worry about any of the server management troubles. Exclusive partnership with CloudFlare allows to bring you the latest website acceleration technology with no additional costs. CloudFlare Railgun decreases your page load times all around the world, their partnership offers you this website optimization software valued at $200 for free.
2). Cloudflare (CDN & Security provider)
CloudFlare designed its CDN (Content Delivery Network) without the legacy of the last 15 years. Their proprietary technology takes advantage of recent changes to hardware, web server technology and network routing. In other words, They have built the next-generation CDN. The result is a CDN that is easier to setup, more affordable, and performs better than any legacy CDN you’ve tried before.
Steps to follow to Increase Site Speed :
1). SignUp SiteGround Hosting (if you want to get Railgun feature On, otherwise use your existing hosting provider)
2). SignUp CloudFlare (Free Account)
After you have done above required steps now steps to follow to make your site link with cloudflare servers:
1). Signin your Cloudflare account and add your websites. You can add multiple websites by putting (,) after every site.
2). Update your DNS Settings by adding A, AAAA and CNAME records can have their traffic routed through the CloudFlare system and update your Nameservers propagation takes around 12-24 hours.
3). Goto – CloudFlare Settings – Settings Overview. Check for Railgun™ origin network optimizer and make it ON and Test. If it showing you Railgun is on. Then you perfectly oink your website with Cloudflare Railgun feature. Note: You will only get this feature by using Vexxhost hosting or you have to upgrade your free plan to business plan (cost 200/pm)
4). Goto – Security Setting and check anything you want to update or leave as it is and proceed to next.
5). Goto – Performance setting :
Caching level
Adjust your caching level to modify CloudFlare’s caching behavior. Change it to Aggressive.
Auto Minify (Web optimization)
Automatically minify JavaScript and CSS for your web pages, resulting in smaller scripts andfaster load times. Check all boxes.
Rocket Loader™ (Web optimization)
Automatically asynchronously load all JavaScript resources. Change it to Automatic.
Now you are done with settings. It’s time to check your website speed now
Pingdom Result After :
After implementing the setting with cloudflare our site response much faster load time decreased to 1.31 and website now faster than 83% of all tested website
GTMetrix Result After:
After done with settings our site performance increased. Page speed grade increased from 85% to 94% (B to A) and YSlow Grade from 63% to 91% (D to A).
Do let us know about your site performance by implementing the above changes or you have any other ways to get more better results. Please comment below.
