{"id":4417,"date":"2023-06-07T14:18:40","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T14:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rengga.dev\/blog\/?p=4417"},"modified":"2023-06-07T15:07:47","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T15:07:47","slug":"why-speed-is-important-for-your-wordpress-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rengga.dev\/blog\/why-speed-is-important-for-your-wordpress-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Speed is Important for Your WordPress Site?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Studies show that from 2000 to 2016, the average human attention span has dropped from 12 seconds to 7 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>What does this mean for you as a website owner?<\/p>\n<p>You have very little time to show users your content and convince them to stay on your website.<\/p>\n<p>A slow website means users will potentially leave your website before it even loads.<\/p>\n<p>According to a StrangeLoop case study that involved Amazon, Google, and other larger sites, a 1 second delay in page load time can lead to 7% loss in conversions, 11% fewer page views, and 16% decrease in customer satisfaction.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60163 lazyloaded\" title=\"How speed affects your website\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn3.wpbeginner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/strangeloopstudy.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn3.wpbeginner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/strangeloopstudy.jpg 550w, https:\/\/cdn2.wpbeginner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/strangeloopstudy-300x158.jpg 300w\" alt=\"How speed affects your website\" width=\"550\" height=\"290\" data-ll-status=\"loaded\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On top of that, Google and other search engines have already started penalizing slower websites by pushing them down in the search results which means lower traffic for slow websites.<\/p>\n<p>To sum it all up, if you want more traffic, subscribers, and revenue from your website, then you must make your WordPress website FAST!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Studies show that from 2000 to 2016, the average human attention span <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/rengga.dev\/blog\/why-speed-is-important-for-your-wordpress-site\/\" title=\"Why Speed is Important for Your WordPress Site?\" itemprop=\"url\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,17],"tags":[603,602,606,604,605],"newstopic":[595],"class_list":{"0":"post-4417","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-web-development","8":"category-wordpress","9":"tag-wordpress-performance","10":"tag-wordpress-site","11":"tag-wordpress-speed","12":"tag-wordpress-tips","13":"tag-wordpress-tricks","14":"newstopic-wordpress"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rengga.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rengga.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rengga.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rengga.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rengga.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rengga.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4419,"href":"https:\/\/rengga.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4417\/revisions\/4419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rengga.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rengga.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rengga.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rengga.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4417"},{"taxonomy":"newstopic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rengga.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newstopic?post=4417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}