Listen to learn how to speed up your WordPress website. I use these two plugins for my PDR directory website. The first plugin is Wp Rocket. WP Rocket is a cache plugin but it does so much more. The second plugin is Asset CleanUp. With this plugin you can turn on and off certain plugins, CSS, and Javascript to speed up your website. Make sure to check out these two plugins if you are using WordPress. I was able to double my speed score on this PDR Colorado Springs page.

Welcome back to Casey's SEO this is episode, four of creating a web directory all right. So first couple episodes. We went over hosting um web design using WordPress the very basics of what you need to get started now we're going to dive into uh some different plugins. So we'll have a couple different episodes of what plugins you should probably be using. Now you don't have to use these exact plugins, but you will want to use something similar to what I'll be discussing.

So the first two plugins that we're going to go over today are assist speed up and um WP Rocket. So basically, these two plugins work with cache and work with with uh speeding up your website. So if you've worked with website websites before you will notice, if you have a lot of content or a lot of images or it's just kind of a poor theme, um design, you will notice your speed may be kind of slow. Now. The first thing you need to check if your speed is really slow, is you need to dive into your hosting?

If you have the cheapest hosting program or product that you can purchase for the most part, your website is going to be really slow, so make sure to choose a hosting plan. That is not the slowest all right, but we have WP Rocket. So it's going to be a cash um, plug-in it's actually pretty good the product price. I want to say it's about 40 for one website and you can purchase some bundles, which will save you if you need it for more than one website. I also found a website a few years back called woo crack.

Now this website has multiple there's tons of different plugins out there, and this one is one of them and you basically get them all for free. Now you don't get any of the support. Um and updates may not be automatic. You may have to kind of check back and to find out when there's an update and manually update that, but that cost me. I think it was five dollars for three or five years, and i mean the price has may may have gone up since then.

But can't beat it for the price, but with uh WP Rocket you're, basically going to follow all the instructions you're going to check everything out. Uh you can you can minify your CSS, your HTML, your java script. Sometimes, when you do this, you will have problems with the website. It may change the way it functions or you just may have parts of your website that just won't work correctly, so you're going to have to go ahead and remove that minify to get your work. Your uh website, working correctly again, i mean, let me think, another couple features on there: um they offer a CDN now, what a CDN does it's going to take all your information and store that information on different servers throughout the us or worldwide, and it should serve the person information quicker now their product that they have on there. I believe i'm trying to think what i paid seven dollars, eight dollars a month for it, which is not bad uh. The reason why i chose them is just because it was uh. Basically, a one button set up. All i did was purchase the the plan hit start or whatnot, and it did everything else by itself.

You can choose a different program that or a different CDN. That would be better and you can have some more manual work with that with the CDN. I also um hook my website up to cloud-flare, which is basically another CDN, but it does say that it is compatible, so i just hooked both those up with the free version, so it took an additional 10 minutes and good to go with that. Another program that WP Rocket offers is Imagify, something along those lines. You will see it if you check out WP Rocket it is there um image compressed compression uh plug-in, which they have a free version for, like 20 megabytes a month or a couple paid options up to ten dollars for unlimited a month, which is very nice?

I went ahead and chose that program. It's probably one of the better image compression plug-ins that i've used, but now we're going to move into um what's. I say asset uh speedup, something like that. I'm going to go ahead and leave all the links below in the description now. This plugin is actually really great, so i basically doubled my mobile speeds that i was getting from my google test.

So i, after testing and testing the different um well using different websites for my speed, obviously with google you're going to get the worst um speed, rating or optimization rating, and that's fine. Now, if you use like a gt, mage metrics, you may get a 90 all day long and then, if you go over to your google developers web page and test your speed, you may be at 25 just the way it is but go and look and see What they want you to essentially minify or remove, and you can get your your uh speeds up pretty quick. So, with this asset speed up plug-in that I've used, they have a free version and a pro version, but it basically allows you to go in and turn off, uh plugins and java script and CSS on each individual page. So, let's just say, for example, your home page. Your speed is 25 using uh google speed test and you go through and you're like all right.

Well, i don't need um these 10 plugins for my website. You can go ahead and put it in basically test mode, toggle, those on and off and see. If you have any issues with your website, if you don't go ahead and leave them off and then go back through clear the cache and retest your speed now you may go from 25 all the way up to 90 or above it just depends on what plug-ins And things that you turn on and off so this plug-in is this essentially a must-have, especially if your website is slow um, you just got to be careful to what you're. Turning on and off you got to figure out. You know what exactly what every plug-in is.

If you don't know a lot of cs and or java script which i don't you might just want to leave some of those assets kind of turned on i mean you like, i said you can go through and toggle them on and off sometimes you'll notice. The difference, sometimes you won't, but you can go, keep going through and play and play with that. The other nice thing about this plugin is, you can set it up for essentially all your pages like, if you just have a page, you can go through them individually or you can say, hey since uh. These five pages are the same. I'M going to go ahead and turn off all these plug-ins and you won't have to worry about it and if you need to go back untoggle one for a particular page, you can do that.

It's really easy. Uh you'll probably spend about a day going through and and playing around just make sure you make a saved copy of your website before you start doing all this, and even within the program, if you essentially screw something up uh, you can go through and restore that Plug-In back to the very basics, so essentially nothing is turned on, but uh. Those are the two plugins that I'm going over today. So if you're looking for ways to speed up your website, definitely check out those two plugins and i will be back soon and we'll go over a couple. Other plugins that I'm using for my web directory.