WEBVTT 00:00.150 --> 00:06.780 The next thing we want to do is speed up your website slow loading Web sites get high balance rates 00:07.050 --> 00:12.510 which affects your Google search results or really any search results because Google doesn't like to 00:12.570 --> 00:16.530 share web sites that have high bounce rates in their search engines. 00:16.530 --> 00:20.190 So your Web site speed goes hand-in-hand with SEO. 00:20.190 --> 00:21.870 There are two plugins that I recommend. 00:21.870 --> 00:26.240 One is W.P. super cash and the other is W3 total cash. 00:26.250 --> 00:28.490 Both do a very similar thing. 00:28.500 --> 00:34.590 So either is really a great option but we're going to go ahead with super cash which is what I use for 00:34.590 --> 00:35.680 my own web site. 00:35.700 --> 00:37.920 So let's go ahead and install it. 00:37.980 --> 00:45.490 You'll find the settings for W.P. super cache under your settings this tool is pretty straightforward. 00:45.490 --> 00:49.340 You want to turn on caching and then say update status. 00:49.360 --> 00:57.940 And basically what this is doing is it's turning a lot of your heavier slower loading ph P files into 00:57.940 --> 00:59.260 HCM Mal files. 00:59.260 --> 01:00.900 These are just faster to load. 01:00.910 --> 01:04.150 And for anyone that's visiting your Web site that's not you. 01:04.150 --> 01:08.820 Basically you want to make sure that they're loading just something that's a little bit smaller. 01:08.830 --> 01:10.420 So that's basically what it does. 01:10.420 --> 01:15.000 It goes through all of your files and turns them into faster loading files. 01:15.700 --> 01:22.130 With this plug in I just go with all of the recommended settings and I suggest that you do too. 01:22.240 --> 01:28.190 So you can go through under advance and turn on all of the recommended settings. 01:28.360 --> 01:33.490 So there are a couple that aren't automatically checked such as compressing pages or they're served 01:33.490 --> 01:35.140 more quickly to your visitors. 01:35.230 --> 01:41.980 Not caching pages for users you might not want it to cache the pages because if it does when you make 01:42.040 --> 01:45.000 updates you might not see those updates yourself. 01:45.040 --> 01:50.440 And then there's just a couple more that I would just check all the recommended ones like for example 01:50.440 --> 01:57.170 this one is it checks your home page more often than the other pages to make sure your home page cache 01:57.340 --> 02:02.290 for all the people who are visiting your home page which most likely will be your most popular or one 02:02.290 --> 02:03.880 of your most popular pages. 02:03.880 --> 02:07.480 Once you're done checking all those boxes just click update status. 02:07.480 --> 02:12.550 The next thing is to enable CD and support content delivery network. 02:12.550 --> 02:18.550 Basically what this means is when people are visiting your Web site they're actually accessing the files 02:18.550 --> 02:19.720 from a server. 02:19.750 --> 02:25.270 If you are hosting in the United States that means if someone is visiting your Web site they are getting 02:25.270 --> 02:28.350 that information from a server in the United States. 02:28.360 --> 02:30.170 At least that's where your hosting is. 02:30.190 --> 02:36.460 But this is actually kind of slower for people who live far away with a CD and it's a massive network 02:36.520 --> 02:41.460 where all kinds of files are actually stored on different servers. 02:41.470 --> 02:46.930 And when you enable CD and support it means that whenever someone visits your Web site they're actually 02:46.930 --> 02:51.610 getting those files from the Close's server which just speeds up your Web site. 02:51.610 --> 02:54.960 So I'd definitely recommend enabling CD and support. 02:54.970 --> 03:02.320 So once you check that box just save changes the contents page will just show you what pages and what 03:02.320 --> 03:08.800 content are cash from your Web site as you create more pages and how over time that will increase then 03:08.800 --> 03:09.250 pretty low. 03:09.250 --> 03:10.920 This is also really important. 03:10.960 --> 03:17.590 I would check on the preload mode because this will actually create a cache file for your web site when 03:17.590 --> 03:19.560 people visit it for the first time. 03:19.630 --> 03:22.750 And this will actually help you increase your Google ranking. 03:22.840 --> 03:27.610 So go ahead and click Update settings and pre-load cache now. 03:27.700 --> 03:33.640 I would also recommend setting the minutes to run around 14 40 which is about a day. 03:33.640 --> 03:40.200 So this means that your files will be cached every day for this pre-load setting. 03:40.300 --> 03:45.010 And if you are using tags and categories which most of us will be doing with our blog go out and check 03:45.190 --> 03:49.820 the pre-load tags and categories setting then click Update greed. 03:49.840 --> 03:55.390 While that's the W.P. super cache settings and once you install that and set all those settings up your 03:55.390 --> 03:58.440 web site should be acting faster. 03:58.450 --> 04:02.830 Now if you are just starting it might not seem like your websites that much faster because you don't 04:02.830 --> 04:08.620 have a lot of plug ins and images and posts but over time once you do start adding a lot of content 04:08.650 --> 04:12.730 and then you turn this on and off you and your viewers will see a difference. 04:12.730 --> 04:18.160 You can even test the speed of your web site with the tool called kingdoms or go to tooled up Kingdom 04:18.160 --> 04:20.600 dot com type in your website address. 04:20.620 --> 04:26.590 You can choose where you want to do the test from and it will give you a summary of your performance 04:26.680 --> 04:30.430 and things that you can do to improve the speed of your site. 04:30.460 --> 04:33.760 So that's how you improve the speed of your Web site.