{"id":4423,"date":"2023-06-07T15:03:04","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T15:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rengga.dev\/blog\/?p=4423"},"modified":"2023-06-07T15:04:16","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T15:04:16","slug":"what-slows-down-your-wordpress-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rengga.dev\/blog\/what-slows-down-your-wordpress-website\/","title":{"rendered":"What Slows Down Your WordPress Website?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your speed test report will likely have multiple recommendations for improvement. However, most of that is technical jargon which is hard for beginners to understand.<\/p>\n<p>Learning what slows down your website is the key to improving performance and making smarter long-term decisions.<\/p>\n<p>The primary causes for a slow WordPress website are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Web Hosting<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 When your web hosting server is not properly configured it can hurt your website speed.<\/li>\n<li><strong>WordPress Configuration<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 If your WordPress site is not serving cached pages, then it will overload your server thus causing your website to be slow or crash entirely.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Page Size<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Mainly images that aren\u2019t optimized for web.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bad Plugins<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 If you\u2019re using a poorly coded plugin, then it can significantly slow down your website.<\/li>\n<li><strong>External scripts<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 External scripts such as ads, font loaders, etc can also have a huge impact on your website performance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now that you know what slows down your WordPress website, let\u2019s take a look at how to speed up your WordPress website.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pro Tip:<\/strong>\u00a0Want to reduce the number of plugins on your site? Start using\u00a0<a title=\"WPCode\" href=\"https:\/\/wpcode.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WPCode<\/a>\u00a0which is a powerful code snippet management plugin for WordPress. It will easily help you reduce at least 5 plugins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your speed test report will likely have multiple recommendations for improvement. However, <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/rengga.dev\/blog\/what-slows-down-your-wordpress-website\/\" title=\"What Slows Down Your WordPress Website?\" 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":[608,609,603,602,606,604,605,607],"newstopic":[595],"class_list":{"0":"post-4423","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-web-development","8":"category-wordpress","9":"tag-check-wordpress-website","10":"tag-slows-down-your-wordpress","11":"tag-wordpress-performance","12":"tag-wordpress-site","13":"tag-wordpress-speed","14":"tag-wordpress-tips","15":"tag-wordpress-tricks","16":"tag-wordpress-website-speed","17":"newstopic-wordpress"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rengga.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4423","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=4423"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rengga.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4425,"href":"https:\/\/rengga.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4423\/revisions\/4425"}],"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=4423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rengga.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rengga.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4423"},{"taxonomy":"newstopic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rengga.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newstopic?post=4423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}