The next thing we want to do is speed up your website slow loading Web sites get high balance rates
which affects your Google search results or really any search results because Google doesn't like to
share web sites that have high bounce rates in their search engines.
So your Web site speed goes hand-in-hand with SEO.
There are two plugins that I recommend.
One is W.P. super cash and the other is W3 total cash.
Both do a very similar thing.
So either is really a great option but we're going to go ahead with super cash which is what I use for
my own web site.
So let's go ahead and install it.
You'll find the settings for W.P. super cache under your settings this tool is pretty straightforward.
You want to turn on caching and then say update status.
And basically what this is doing is it's turning a lot of your heavier slower loading ph P files into
HCM Mal files.
These are just faster to load.
And for anyone that's visiting your Web site that's not you.
Basically you want to make sure that they're loading just something that's a little bit smaller.
So that's basically what it does.
It goes through all of your files and turns them into faster loading files.
With this plug in I just go with all of the recommended settings and I suggest that you do too.
So you can go through under advance and turn on all of the recommended settings.
So there are a couple that aren't automatically checked such as compressing pages or they're served
more quickly to your visitors.
Not caching pages for users you might not want it to cache the pages because if it does when you make
updates you might not see those updates yourself.
And then there's just a couple more that I would just check all the recommended ones like for example
this one is it checks your home page more often than the other pages to make sure your home page cache
for all the people who are visiting your home page which most likely will be your most popular or one
of your most popular pages.
Once you're done checking all those boxes just click update status.
The next thing is to enable CD and support content delivery network.
Basically what this means is when people are visiting your Web site they're actually accessing the files
from a server.
If you are hosting in the United States that means if someone is visiting your Web site they are getting
that information from a server in the United States.
At least that's where your hosting is.
But this is actually kind of slower for people who live far away with a CD and it's a massive network
where all kinds of files are actually stored on different servers.
And when you enable CD and support it means that whenever someone visits your Web site they're actually
getting those files from the Close's server which just speeds up your Web site.
So I'd definitely recommend enabling CD and support.
So once you check that box just save changes the contents page will just show you what pages and what
content are cash from your Web site as you create more pages and how over time that will increase then
pretty low.
This is also really important.
I would check on the preload mode because this will actually create a cache file for your web site when
people visit it for the first time.
And this will actually help you increase your Google ranking.
So go ahead and click Update settings and pre-load cache now.
I would also recommend setting the minutes to run around 14 40 which is about a day.
So this means that your files will be cached every day for this pre-load setting.
And if you are using tags and categories which most of us will be doing with our blog go out and check
the pre-load tags and categories setting then click Update greed.
While that's the W.P. super cache settings and once you install that and set all those settings up your
web site should be acting faster.
Now if you are just starting it might not seem like your websites that much faster because you don't
have a lot of plug ins and images and posts but over time once you do start adding a lot of content
and then you turn this on and off you and your viewers will see a difference.
You can even test the speed of your web site with the tool called kingdoms or go to tooled up Kingdom
dot com type in your website address.
You can choose where you want to do the test from and it will give you a summary of your performance
and things that you can do to improve the speed of your site.
So that's how you improve the speed of your Web site.