How To Speed Up WordPress: Optimize Your Website & Fix a Slow Site (Step-By-Step)

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Is your WordPress website slow, scoring badly on Core Web Vitals, and frustrating visitors? In this WordPress speed optimization tutorial, Elijah shows you how to optimize WordPress website speed in a few practical steps: without third-party plugins or external tools. You’ll see exactly how to speed up a WordPress site the way pros do it, focusing on real-world perceived performance, not just synthetic or artificial scores.

In the video, we walk through a live WordPress website and apply seven WordPress speed optimization tips you can reuse on any project. You’ll learn how to lazy load images and use explicit width/height, resize and compress image files, remove built-in WordPress bloat and unnecessary scripts, load Google Fonts locally, and enable caching & compression. By the end, you’ll know how to optimize your WordPress website speed step-by-step so that pages feel faster, look cleaner, and perform better in slow connections.

=== Chapters ===

00:00 Introduction
00:38 Disclaimer
01:00 What we'll focus on
01:11 The setup
01:51 Perceived performance
03:22 Loading images
06:54 Images: width & height
11:50 Optimizing image files
17:12 Re-run perceived performance test
18:06 Unnecessary assets
20:45 Disable jQuery in frontend
23:12 Loading Google font locally
26:51 Enable caching & compression
33:14 The 7 WordPress Speed Optimization Tips

=== Frequently Asked Questions ===

Q: How to speed up a WordPress site without a plugin?
A: To speed up a WordPress site without using a plugin, you can change how your images load by using lazy loading, remove any unnecessary scripts and enable caching & compression.

Q: How to fix a slow WordPress website?
A: Find the source of the slowness and fix the issue at its core. This can be done by disabling plugins that cause slowness, optimizing your images, using lazy loading, removing or optimizing scripts, etc. You can watch the video above to see this in action.

Q: How to improve your website speed?
A: There several key aspects you can influence to improve you website speed, starting with image improvements like lazy load or defining sizes, checking what scripts and code runs in your site and optimizing it or deduplicating unnecessary requests. You can also enable caching and compression.

Q: Which WordPress Builder is Best?
A: It's definitely Oxygen Builder. It let's you build stunning, high-performance websites with WordPress, giving you complete creative freedom.

Q: Do Professional Website Builders use WordPress?
A: Yes, WordPress is the platform of choice for professional website builders due to its ease-of-use and customization capabilities. When paired with Oxygen Builder, it's unmatched to help developers create professional websites.

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PageSpeed Insights
https://pagespeed.web.dev/

GTmetrix
https://gtmetrix.com/

Gift of Speed
https://www.giftofspeed.com/

Photopea:
https://www.photopea.com/

Asset CleanUp: Page Speed Booster
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-asse...

Font Squirrel
https://www.fontsquirrel.com/

Google Webfonts Helper
https://gwfh.mranftl.com/fonts/