With over 1 billion websites to choose from and lack of time, it is extremely hard to stay competitive online. Users have a short attention span and a slow site can immediately put them off.
Advantages of optimizing your site:
- Improved user experience
- Lower bounce rate
- Increased time spent on site
- Improve SEO and keyword ranking
- Lower server costs
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How to optimize your site
- Select a Good Hosting in the right region
- Use a Good Theme
- Use a CDN (Content delivery network)
- Optimize images
- Optimize requests and page load time
- Optimize the database
- Disable hotlinking and leeching
- Add expired headers to static resources
- Lazy Loading
- Optimize Plugins
- Clean up the ‘meta’ or ‘temp’ data
- Lazy loading
- Turn off ping backs and trackbacks
- Replace PHP with static HTML
- Implement Amp pages
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