4 best wordpress plugins to speed up wordpress site

Is your wordpress site is slow? Check out the 4 best wordpress plugins which can speed up your wordpress site

Wordpress is very useful and best CMS for bloggers because it has a lot of advantages like a lot of plugins and themes of every sort are available for it. Besides, the advantages it also have some disadvantages and the one of them is it have slow loading speed. It is very important to improve our site loading speed.

We have found 4 useful wordpress plugins which can help us to improve our site loading speed. To improve the site speed all four plugins maintain different things such as : WP smush.it optimise's the images. So, before we goto plugins first take a look on why speed of the site important.

Why speed of site important

 Now a days every one in this world is in hurry and want to get everything in fast time and if they find anything slower they just leave it and move to the other one therefore, to keep visitors hang around your site then we should improve our site loading time.

You may heard this phrase before that "first impression is the last impression". This principle is also applied in online world. When any new visitor lands on your site page then they take only few seconds to impress with your site and this can be done by improving your site speed.

Let's take example:

a person search from google and in the result your site's page also included. Now the person open up 2 - three pages and your page also included in them.

 If your site load faster the visitor first goto your page and stay on it but if your page take time to load then surely no one waits for your page and move on others.

Now site speed is also important to improve your seo and serp. Google added the site loading speed in their ranking factors. Therefore, we should also have to improve our site loading performance to get good results in google search engine results.

4 best wordpress plugins to speed up wordpress site

Speed Booster Pack

Speed booster pack allow us to improve our website performance and get a higher score on the major speed testing services like Google page speed and others.

Here are the some main and best features of this plugin which are provided by the developers of this plugin.

Features:

1. Move all scripts to the footer
2. Loads CSS asynchronously 
3. Eliminates external render-blocking javascript and css
4. Minify CSS styles 
5. Changes image compression level 
6. Defers parsing of javascript files
7. Removes extra Font Awesome stylesheets
8. Removes junk header tags
9. And some others

W3 Total Cache

This is the best wordpress plugin which can help us to speed up wordpress site.

Easy Web Performance Optimization (WPO) using caching: browser, page, object, database, minify and content delivery network support.

Recommendations: To make this plugin friendly with your site template don't enable all options if you are going to use it for site speed then just enable the most basic options such as: 

• page cache
• browser cache
• you may also enable the CDN option
• you can also enable more if you want...

Here are the some benefits of this plugin which are given from the developers of this plugin

Benefits:

1. At least 10x improvement in overall site performance (Grade A in YSlow or significant Google Page Speed improvements) when fully configured
2. Improved conversion rates and "site performance" which affect your site's rank on Google.com
3. "Instant" subsequent page views: browser caching
4. Optimized progressive render: pages start rendering quickly
5. Reduced page load time: increased visitor time on site; visitors view more pages
6. Improved web server performance; sustain high traffic periods
7. Up to 80% bandwidth savings via minify and HTTP compression of HTML, CSS, JavaScript and feeds

WP Smush.it

This plugin help in reduce site speed by optimizing images. This will reduce the image sizes and improve performance using the Smush.it API within WordPress.

Here are the some benefits of this plugin which are provided by the developers of this plugin

Features

1. stripping meta data from JPEGs
2. optimizing JPEG compression
3. converting certain GIFs to indexed PNGs
4. stripping the un-used colours from indexed images

WP-Optimize

Simple but effective plugin allows you to extensively clean up your WordPress database and optimize it without doing manual queries. And this can help to reduce our site load speed.

Here are the the some features of this plugin which are provided by the developers of this plugin.

Features:

1. Removal of stale post revisions
2. Removal of stale unapproved and spam comments
3. Removal of trashed comments
4. Removal of akismet metadata from comments
5. Removal of other stale metadata from comments
6. Mobile device friendly
7. Removal of all trackbacks and pingbacks
8. Cleaning up auto draft posts
9. Removal of transient options
10. Clear out the post trash
11. Automatic cleanup of all the integrated options
12. Ability to keep selected number of weeks data when cleaning up
13. Option to add or remove link on wp admin bar.
14. Enable/Disable weekly schedules of optimization
15. Apply native WordPress MySql optimize commands on your database tables without phpMyAdmin or any manual query.
16. Display Database table statistics. Shows how much space can be optimized and how much space has been cleared.
17. Enabled for Administrators only.

From editor's desk

These plugins surely help you to improve your site speed by maintaining different factors. Hope you like this and find it helpful. Must share this with others if you find it helpful. Let us know if you got any questions or have more which can increase wordpress site load time.