A Non Techie Guide on How To Improve The Speed Of Your Blog
Blogging can be hard without the proper tools in place. If you don’t know how to properly maintain your blog, trust me, you are not going to enjoy your blogging journey.
Some few weeks back, we talked about how to speed-up our blog without being techie inclined. For when you didn’t get the time to read it, you can still do so using the link below.
Simple Steps To Improve The Speed Of Your Blog Even For A Non-techie
If you have finally read the earlier post, you can continue reading this blog post to make your blog at least, fast enough for your blog to rank well on Google search. Are you ready? If yes, let’s go ahead…
Don’t just uninstall your plugin alone, permanently remove its components
Uninstalling a plugin is so easy, right? Go to your plugin area and click the uninstall plugin and you won’t see that plugin again.
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Do you know that there are some plugins that don’t permanently uninstall when you uninstall them? Yes, and this process can as well affect the speed of your blog and can allow hackers in your blog.
To permanently uninstall a plugin, it should be done in your control panel, but if you do not want to get your hands dirty, you can install the “Clean Option plugin” to help you find those plugin that’s in your blog and don’t want to go.
You can learn how to use the clean option plugin using the link below.
It’s time to get yourself a CDN to speed your blog
CDN can improve your blog speed by 200%. And how it works? It helps deliver’s your blog contents to your readers based on the geographic location of the user.
Many premiums CDN are out there but if you do not have the money to go for a premium CDN, you can equally get a free CDN that can do pretty much the same as premium.
Would you like to know how to create your very own CDN using your local host? You can read the post here to know how to.
Trust me, using a CDN will surely speed up your blog 3x the previous speed…
Install a cache plugin to help your blog run fast
Yes, a cache plugin can help your blog load faster than it already is.
How a cache plugin works: It helps store your blog’s data on your reader’s web browser so future requests for your blog can be served faster.
What’s the best cache plugin to use? There are many WordPress cache plugins out there, but one of the cache plugin I’ll recommend you use is W3 Total cache.
W3 total cache might be hard to set up, but put your worries at rest because I have written a post on how to set up W3 total cache.
Always clean your database to improve your blog speed
Believe it or not, your database also plays a big role in the speed of your blog.
Are you running a slow blog? Cleaning and repairing your Database might just be a great idea. But how can you clean or repair your database with no skill? Simply download and install WP-optimize to help take care of your blog database.
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Or if you are that type of blogger that don’t want another plugin to your plugins, you can easily follow the below tutorial to learn how you clean your database manually.
Make sure you don’t use much third-party advert on your blog…
One other thing that makes your blog run slow is simply because of the third-party ads you’re running on your blog.
If you are using Google AdSense, Infolinks to monetize your blog, your blog will load slowly, why? Because those codes are JavaScript and JavaScript’s slows down your blog server.
I am not telling you not to use a third-party ad network that uses JavaScript to serve ads, but do use it to its minimal so you won’t scare your readers away 😉
Conclusion
There are still more ways to speed your blog/website, but the above ways are ways even a non-techie won’t have a problem with.
So go and try the tips mentioned here on your blog and tell me how it goes using the comment box below…
Back to you
Looks like I have said so much about so much on how to easily improve the speed of your blog without breaking a sweat, now it’s time to pass the keyboard to you guys.
What other ways do you use to improve the speed of your blog? Do drop your comment using the comment below.
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Hi sir, i have a blog for Whatsapp Status niche and i rejected 5 times by google AdSense. But still i cant understand why they are rejecting my website. Please help sir my website link ***
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Hello Ashish,
As long as your blog doesn’t meet Google Adsense requirements, they will keep rejecting you. So what you’ll have to do now, is to build your blog to meet their requirements.
I have written series of post that i am sure will help your blog get adsense approval. please try reading through the post found here http://onenaijablog.com/category/blogging/adsense-revenue/
I am constantly trying to improve blog speed. I had used the same plugins on my site and they helped dramatically. The one I used which was not on your list was the Short Pixel Image Optimization Plugin. Let me cut my image size by 65% without any loss of image quality.
Hello John,
Good to know that you use an image optimizer plugin that reduces your blog images size heavily.
Using two different image optimization plugins on a blog will put weight on the blog and the blog load time will be slow.
Thanks for stopping by and dropping your comment. I appreciate 🙂
Have a blessed weekend…
Hi Babanature,
Thanks for this post. Reading it, I have installed and activated W3 Total Cache plugin for my blog. Hope it reduces my loading time.
Stay blessed!
Hi,
Well indeed this guide is really non techie and very useful too. I’m going to try these tutorial soon. Its really important to improve the speed of blog which will attract users to visit more.
Thanks
Thanks for this awesome piece! In addition, i think test tools like pingdom, GTmetrix and google page score tool amongst others will further help in fixing things that are slowing down your site.
What are the best tools to optimise my blog ??
What tools do you use ?
And nice post !
Speed of a blog is now an important parameters to rank. Many users are leaving your page if it takes time to load.
Nice tips provided by this article.
Awesome post on the blog speed optimization. Specially, the part where you mentioned to delete all the parts of a deleted plugin. That was new to me 🙂