Speed of website plays crucial role in the success of your online business. It can increase or decrease the overall productivity of your site. A slow loading speed automatically slashes the conversion rate as well as sales of your website. A visitor would leave your site if it takes longer to load the page.
However, many novice site owners ignore the speed of their site and continue to lose their potential visitors, without even knowing the actual reason. If you really want to improve the user experience and search engine ranking of your site, then you need to be very serious about your site’s loading speed.
In fact, Google announced that the speed of a site plays a significant role in boosting the ranking of a site on search engine platforms. It means speed optimized sites will rank higher than slow loading websites. On the other side, KISSMetrics survey report, over 45 percent of web users expects a page to load within two seconds. So, if your site takes more than 2 seconds to load a web page, then visitors would leave your site immediately. This badly affects the user experience of your website. In order to sustain their interest, you need to do something robust with the speed of your site.
In this blog post, we bring you the list of six free WordPress plugins that will help you boost the speed, user-experience, flow of traffic and search engine ranking of your WordPress site, without any heavy lifting.
W3 Total Cache
All PCs, smartphones and tablets contains a special storage, known as Cache. It is used to save local data on temporary basis with an objective to make its delivery to the system as fast as possible.
In today’ scenario, all the popular web browsers use this sort of technology, so it becomes essential for website owners to use a plugin that can make their WordPress site compatible with it..
W3 Total Cache is an incredible plugin that can help you boost the user experience of your site by increasing server performance, minimizing the download times and offering reliable CDN (content delivery network) integration.
You only need to download, install, and activate this plugin into your WordPress and then it will automatically take care of your site’s speed. Plus, it is compatible with shared hosting, dedicated servers or virtual private servers.
WP Optimize
By default, WordPress stores every web page, post, comment, trash data, post revisions, and other information from installed plugins. This lays a lot of pressure on the server, which in turn reduces the speed of your site. If you want to improve the speed of your site, then you need to optimize your data.
With the use of WP Optimize plugin, you can clean up the database of your site quickly and efficiently. It is a great tool for those who are new into the web development industry because it doesn’t require for you to go to the PhpMyAdmin to clean and optimize your database tables – you can access everything right from your WordPress dashboard.
It allows you to optimize your database by deleting spam comments, trashed stuffs, stale post revisions, etc from the site. It also gives you complete detail of your current database size and lets you know how much space you can save with this plugin.
WP Smush.it
WP Smush.it is an amazing WordPress plugins that allows website owners to reduce the file size of their images, boost the performance and Search engine ranking of a site, without getting their hands dirty in coding.
Since, high-resolution images take longer to load and this will slow down the speed of your site. In order to avoid this problem, you should optimize your images before uploading them to the site.
With the help of WP Smush.it plugin, you can reduce the sizes of every image, without even damaging their quality. This will improve the loading speed of your site and you will definitely deliver the better user experience to your targeted web visitors.
WP-DBManager
WP-DBManager simply manages your WordPress database.
It lets you optimize, repair, restore, backup the database of your WordPress site. You can even delete backup database, run selected queries and drop/empty tables. Plus, it supports automatic scheduling of optimizing, repairing and backing up of database.
With the help of this plugin, you can improve the overall performance of your site and provide the better user experience to your site visitors.
You might also want to check out this article here on speed up your WP website.
BJ Lazy Load
This plugin makes your WordPress site load faster and also saves bandwidth.
BJ Lazy Load is a free plugin from WordPress that replaces all of your post imags, gravatar images, post thumbnails, and content iframes with a placeholder. It also loads the content as it comes close to enter the browser window when a visitor scrolls down the page.
It also covers embedded videos from Youtube, vimeo, etc.
Imsanity
This is our last but not the least plugin.
Imsanity is a great WordPress plugin that automatically optimize the file size of images for display in browser. This plugin is configurable with a maximum height, width and quality.
When a contributor uploads an image, larger than the configured size, Imsanity automatically scale down the size of the image t the configured size and replace the original one, without any coding skills.
Wrapping up
All the plugins mentioned in the blog post are simple, user-friendly and powerful. You can use them and optimize the speed of your WordPress site, without any hassle.
