WordPress website running slow? Here are 5 tips and tricks to speed it up and enhance performance so your users get the best experience possible.

1. W3 Total Cache

W3 Total Cache is a plugin that improves user experience by increasing server performance, reducing download times, and providing content delivery network (CDN) integration (refer to tip 5). Features include page caching by keeping static copies of pages, CSS/JavaScript/HTML minification, and handling uploads to CDNs.

W3 Total Cache speeds up page load times and improves user experience.

2. BackUpWordPress

BackUpWordPress allows you to backup your entire site, including databases, whenever you want with schedule mode. Features include managing multiple backup schedules, use zip and mysqldump for quick backups, low memory usage, email backups, and choose which files are backed up.

Use BackUpWordPress to secure your website’s data.

3. Redirection

Make sure your users get to where they need to be by using Redirection, a plugin that uses 301 redirects to avoid pages that aren’t found (404 errors) and tidies up loose ends on your website. Features include 404 error monitoring to capture and redirect, custom pass through redirects to allow passes to another page, file, or website, and redirects based on status like login or referrer.

Redirection is a great way to make sure users are where they need to be.

4. WP-Optimize

Speed up how data is handled and retrieved using WP-Optimize, a plugin that boasts features like removable post revisions, disable database table statistics, and apply mysql optimize commands on your database tables.

WP-Optimize is a database cleanup and optimization tool.

5. CDNify

A Content Delivery Network, or CDN for short, is the best method to speed up a website. It does the following –

• Grabs content and disperses it across servers that are located geographically. When a request is made for files, the closest server to the client is used, sending content super quick.
• In depth analytics lets you see which resources are being used the most and where in the world your site generates the most traffic.
• Secure delivery via SSL means piece of mind when sending files.
• Backup data incase the hosting server goes down so your content is safe.
• Add bandwidth on the fly by paying for what you need, when you need it.

A fantastic service for startups, bloggers, developers, and marketers wanting to boost their site’s content and overall improve user experience.

Got an account at CDNify? Follow this guide on how to integrate CDNify with WordPress.

Not an existing customer? Get started by heading over to the signup form.