1. Optimize Your Images
First and foremost, you’ll need to optimize all of the images
presented on your webpage to have any chance of speeding up your
website. Remove the extra comments, unnecessary space, and useless
colors from the source of your images. Save your images in JPEG format
because it uses the least capacity while still maintaining
picture-perfect quality. In Photoshop, you can use CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+S to automatically optimize and save images at the smallest possible size.
For your WordPress website, I advise using the
smush.it
plug-in to optimize your website’s pictures automatically and receive a
speed boost. If you have any images that are saved in PNG format, you
can also use
tinypng for optimizing the image and improving image quality too.
2. Enable GZip Compression
GZip compression may sound complicated, but it’s simply a large term
used for reducing the size of the HTTP response to improve response
time. Since this allows your site to send a GZip file instead of an HTML
file to the browser, you’ll reduce page wait time and loading time.
3. Minify CSS
To minify the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) simply means to make the CSS smaller in size by removing any extra white space. Look out for any unnecessary codes that are slowing down your speed time too. Minify your CSS and use the new code for loading your site much more swiftly. No matter whether you use your CSS inlined, combined, or with external files, smaller will always be better.
4. Minify HTML & Javascript
Along the same lines, you should minify HTML and Javascript for making your pages load considerably faster. This will also provide a better user experience.
5. Avoid Redirects
Redirection is an overwhelming sense of irritation for website visitors. It’s similar to going to a friend’s house and then finding out your friend has moved to another house three blocks away. Being redirected to other web pages consumes extra time, reduces your loading speed, and makes your users groan in frustration. So, I always advise that you avoid redirects on any page of your website unless you don’t have another choice.
