Monkey OwlPage Speed is the speed at which an individual page loads on your website. Different pages can have different speeds due to factors such as images and scripts.
Page Speed is the speed at which an individual page loads on your website. Different pages can have different speeds due to factors such as images and scripts.
Page speed is a measurement of how fast the content on your page loads.
Page speed can be described in either “page load time” (the time it takes to fully display the content on a specific page).
Google has indicated page speed as one of the signals used by its algorithm to rank pages. And research has shown that Google might be specifically measuring time to first byte as when it considers page speed.
Your starting point is to check your speed using two tools:
Google’s PageSpeed Insights:
https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/
Pingdom Speed Test:
GTmetrix Speed Test:
The above tools will give you some recommendations on what you need to change to improve your speed but as I mentioned above it’s a technical issue and you may have to hire a developer to help you.
Google is mentioning the importance of speed in all their SEO recommendations and studies confirm that faster websites perform better than slower websites.
In general, what you can do to make your website load faster is the following:
- Optimize CSS delivery to reduce HTTP request
- Using external style sheets
- Compressed images (without compromising the quality)
- Optimize and minify your CSS and JS Files (WP Fastest Cache Plugin)
- Enable browser caching (WP Fastest Cache Plugin)
- Less self- hosted videos
- Upgrade to PHP 7.2 -> this will give you huge improvements in speed compared to PHP 5.2.
- Minimize the use of plugins
- Avoid adding too many scripts in the <head> of your website.
Improve your website speed by using Cache settings by GTmetrix itself / Cloudflare configuration
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