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Website running slow? How to get it running quick.

If your WordPress website is feeling sluggish, don’t worry—there are a few simple steps you can take to improve performance without diving into technical settings. 

Understanding How Caching Works

Caching speeds up your website by saving static versions of your pages and delivering them instantly to visitors, instead of rebuilding each page from scratch on every visit.

However, cache doesn’t last forever. It can expire over time or be cleared automatically when:

  • You edit or update a page or post

  • You install or update a plugin or theme

  • You make structural changes to your website or settings

Why your website is running slow:

WhenIt is likely that your page(s) are not cached and because of this happens, the first visitor to the affected page will trigger WordPress to rebuild it and store a new cached version. This initial load will be slower, as it takes time to dynamically generate and store the cached page. After that, subsequent visitors will benefit from the faster, cached version.

How to Make Sure Your Site Fast By Caching Pages:

On our premium hosting plan 'Commercial', we include a crawler which automatically caches all pages on your website periodically to keep your website running quick. 

Caching pages is as simple as visiting those pages when not logged in.

  1. Log Out of WordPress
    To see your site as a visitor would (and to allow the cache to build), log out of your WordPress admin account.

  2. Visit Key Pages
    Browse your most important pages (like the homepage, contact page, or high-traffic blog posts). This helps LiteSpeed cache them for future visitors.

  3. Use different devices (i.e mobile and desktop)
    Be sure to visit your pages on both mobile and desktop devices to ensure they load quick for both types of devices.

 

How to test your page speed:

You can use a free tool such as: https://pagespeed.web.dev/ to test your websites performance. We always recommend you run 2 tests so you can be sure the page is cached.

Still slow?

If your website is still feeling sluggish, please contact support@globe2.net and provide your speed test(s) and one of our expert team can take a more in depth look in to why your website is not running at full speed.

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