WordPress Performance Optimization

Having performance issues with your WordPress site? We can help with WordPress Performance Optimization.

Why is it critical to have a fast WordPress site?

Studies show that:

More than 50% of people will abandon a site if it takes longer than 3 seconds to load
74% of mobile users will abandon if it takes longer than 5 seconds to load
46% of users won’t return to a poorly-performing site
The maximum ideal load time is 2 seconds
Conversions decline 7% for each 1 second delay in loading
Customer satisfaction decreases 16% for each 1 second delay in loading

How do we improve WordPress performance?

We’ll first address the “low-hanging fruit” – the big fixes that will make the most impact on reducing load time for your human visitors. Then we’ll provide recommendations for additional fine-scale tuning you may want to do, and we can help with that if you choose.

Remember that performance is a process. It’s a good idea to revisit your site’s loading times yearly or whenever a distinct slowdown is noticed.

See recent results:

Our WordPress Performance Optimization includes:

Testing load times to get a baseline for performance – both actionable metrics and best-practices conformity
Identifying issues with site resources on the server (scripts, stylesheets, images)
Finding performance issues with installed plugins and/or the theme
Cleaning the database
Removing spam comments, old revisions, lingering shortcodes and unused themes and plugins
Checking the host setup
Making “biggest bang for the buck” changes to improve loading speed in all areas

You’ll receive a report on the before/after results, actions taken, and any other recommendations to help the site stay fast going forward, plus a checklist of key ingredients for a speedy WordPress site.

Typical results are improvements of 25% -50% in load time, but we can’t guarantee that because a lot of it depends on factors external to your website.