As you already noticed, iGuRu.gr which uses WordPress, loads in less than a second (depends on the size of the images displayed at the moment). The fact makes the website the fastest in the Greek Web scene, but also one of the fastest worldwide.
Let's see what works have been done and do not look:
In the first place let's say that to have such results the main reason is the hosting service. It should be fast and reliable, otherwise changes if you do, will not bring impressive results,
Secondly: a good theme choice.
Read the article
Right choice theme for WordPress and not just
Let's go now to the small technical details that make the difference:
Before we start you should remove any unnecessary from your website. For example, Gravatar enabled causes delays in loading the page, as every user clicks WordPress trying to connect to the Gravatar service as well.
Your first page (home or frond page) should not have multiple images. Google images and ads cause delays. Create a minimal page and the loading time will be significantly reduced.
- You show summaries instead of entire articles.
- Reduce the number of posts that appear on each page.
- Remove homegroup sharing widgets.
- Delete all plugins and widgets you do not need.
- Keep your page minimal. Your visitors come for it content and not the 100.000 widgets you have in the original.
Compress and generally optimize images. Χρησιμοποιήστε το εργαλείο αυτόματης optimizationof images WP-SmushIt. It will drastically reduce the size of images while uploading them without reducing quality. The plugin is free.
Compress all active assets. That is, compression in .js, .css and html. By compressing assets you save loading time as o traveler the end user needs less time to download them locally to their system and view the web page. A good plugin is the Autoptimize, but it will need the necessary settings.
Autoptimize will make optimizing your site really easy. It will merge all scripts and css, will minimize them and compress them. It will add expires headers, cached static scripts and css, and move them .js to the footer.
It will also minimize your HTML page code automatically. If you see that your page is distorted, do not be frightened. It's a matter of regulation. Play with the settings, or contact a friend of your acquaintance.
(Here is a good point to mention that iGuRu.gr does not provide technical support of any kind.)
Use a caching plugin. Serve cached files to your visitors with a plug-in (everything that's going to be needed requires the necessary settings.) Ask for help if you have difficulty.)
You can use one of the following: W3 Total Cache, WP Super Cache or HyperCache
Use content delivery network (CDN) to upload your images from a different server and not from the server that displays your page. Try out with CloudFlare's free service.
Optimize your database WordPress. It WP-Optimize is a very good plugin. Use it wisely. If you do not know, ask for help.
Do not allow hotlinking, delaying your page.
In .htaccess add the following code. Change "iguru.gr" and delete the feedburner link if you are not using it
RewriteEngine on RewriteCond% {HTTP_REFERER}! ^ $ RewriteCond% {HTTP_REFERER}! ^ Http (s)?: // (www \.)? Iguru.gr [NC] RewriteCond% {HTTP_REFERER}! ^ Http (s) ?: //(www\.)?google.com [NC] RewriteCond% {HTTP_REFERER}! ^ http (s)?: // (www \.)? feeds2.feedburner.com/igurugr [NC] RewriteRule \. (jpg | jpeg | png | gif) $ - [NC, F, L]
Let's stop here. Of course there is space for more and more technical tweaks, which we will probably mention in a future publication.
