Time to Act
Speed is Crucial to the Success of Your Business
Your website can’t be slow to load. The average user actually anticipates your page to load in 2 to 3 seconds or they are likely to go elsewhere. Consumers are pretty unforgiving. You will be losing traffic, subscribers, and customers if you have slow page load times. In addition, user experience loading time is becoming a more important factor when it comes to search engine rankings.
Serving the mobile version of your site is essential. Mobile internet usage is the way of the future. Currently, approximately 50% of all internet usage is mobile. Staying on top means optimizing for better mobile user experience. Loading speed on mobile devices takes approximately 85% longer than desktop devices. That being said many users are still looking for that 3-second experience. The reality is 22 seconds is the average homepage load. So every second you can cut off the load time makes a difference.
5 Plugins to Speed Up Your Performance Game
Here are 5 options to help you get up to speed. Your goal should be to make sure you’re better than the industry standards.
WP Hummingbird
Hummingbird is an all-in-one speed optimization plugin. It covers the most essential areas required to optimize your site’s performance. The main areas targeted include caching, GZIP compression, minification, and performance scans. Hummingbird allows you to implement these steps quickly and easily with one-click fixes.
WP Fastest Cash
This plug-in aims to optimize load times by creating and storing static copies of pages and posts. This reduces the number of queries required to render your site and lowers the associated server load. This results in speeding up your website and improve its performance. This plugin also has features specifically for mobile sites.
WP Super Cash
Instead of processing a site’s typical heavy PHP Scripts WP Super Cash generates HTML files that are served directly by Apache. Because the cached HTML files are so much easier to process the plugin speeds up sites significantly.
W3 Total Cash
W3 Total Cache leverages features like content delivery network (CDN) integration and the latest best practices to increase a site’s performance and therefore reduce loading times.
WP Rocket
WP Rocket is a caching plugin that provides cache preloading, browser caching, GZIP compression, and options for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript minification and concatenation. It is the perfect solution for a website owner who finds technical terms perplexing. The plugin is also tremendously user-friendly.
