How To Make Your WordPress Website Faster - An Ultimate Checklist

Website Management

1. Remove unnecessary plugins
2. Reduce size of your page
3. Use Google AMP
4. Distribute comments across multiple pages
5. Keep your software updated
6. Minimize the number of DNS lookups
7. Avoid redirects
8. Check your links
9. Test your site with AdBlockers
10. Minify HTML
11. Minify CSS
12. Don’t host video on your own site
13. Compress web fonts
14. Set a limit for revisions
15. Concatenate CSS

Code

1. Load CSS and JavaScript asynchronously
2. Place render blocking CSS inline
3. Properly set up your favicon
4. Place all CSS resources in head
5. Minimize cookie size
6. Set up your error pages
7. Use system fonts
8. Use tree shaking (CSS & JS)
9. Don’t use @import
10. Use critical path rendering
11. Make CSS non-blocking
12. Use the preload directive
13. Use non-blocking JavaScript
14. Reduce and combine external scripts
15. Optimize your PHP code

Images

1. Use the right file types
2. Specify image dimensions
3. Use lazy loading
4. Defer the loading of images