These are some super effective ways that you can reduce the loading time of your site. It is important now a day that your site should load fast as website speed is now a parameter for Google while deciding the search engine rankings. Somehow, most bloggers and webmaster make silly mistakes on their site that affect the loading time of their site adversely. Here are some ways to reduce your site’s loading time and make it super fast:1. WP Super Cache Plugin
The first thing to do whenever you feel that your site is taking too long to load is download the WP-Super Cache Plugin. Simply download and activate it. It is a great plugin that will generate static html files. It basically caches your blog so it can load faster. This is especially good if your site gets a lot of traffic from Digg or StumbleUpon etc.2. Use Minimal Images
Although it is always encouraged that you use images on your blog posts to enhance reading quality try not to overdo it. It is quite easy for us to get carried away and post 2-3 images in a single post of about 400 words. Reduce the use of images to 1; of course you need to use more images when your article length is really long. But always be a minimalist and you will enjoy good site speed.3. Image Hosting
You use images on your blog posts right? Always host them on your server rather than using a third party server (you do it to save bandwidth, I know). But at the same time you should know that local files will always load faster than the files that you have stored on an external server. For a few really heavy images you can go for flickr, Imgur and other image hosting websites.4. Minimize the Usage of Plugins
Plugins have made blogging on WordPress so much easier and fun that most of us don’t even worry about codes. But in hind-sight the usage of too many plugins will definitely kill your loading speed. Always delete the plugins which you feel are unnecessary or can be replaced with simple coding.5. Avoid Use of Flash
Just don’t use it on your blog. You may make a minimalist use of Flash on company websites and such but avoid them on blogs much as you can. Of course unless you are big websites like Nike which is popular and don’t care about Google calculating your page load time for SEO – you should be worried about using Flash. The reason is because Flash takes an awful lot of time to load and generally visitors don’t even prefer flash in blogs.6. Get Rid of Dumb Gadgets
I believe that all gadgets are dumb. Especially, the gadgets which are used to show the time date etc. Just get rid of these as they are very heavy scripts and affect your sites loading speed. Get rid of the entire shout box and polls etc. They destroy a professional look of your site and site loading speed is the first thing they target. I have never understood why a blogger would want a Shoutbox on their site!7. Control Your Ads
Advertisements are a big bully on site loading time. Most PPC ads and CPM ads are wrought with HTML coding error. So use them in a minimal manner. When it comes to in-text ads avoid them as much as you can because they really slow down your site. Of course, it is perfectly okay to use simple text link ads and image ads.8. Your Theme
The theme that you use on your blog is an important factor of the sites loading time. As it is the major portion which needs to be downloaded. So always try and use themes that have a clean and simple code structure and are not too heavy.9. Choose a Good web host
The selection of a good web host matters a lot. Ensure that you get your hosting from a reputable and reliable web host company. Avoid cheap web hosts and prefer paid ones.10. Stay Simple
This is my final advice to you guys out there. It is the most important one as well. Always keep your site simple as this will not only help you in search engine optimization but it reduces the load time a lot. Don’t clutter your blog with unnecessary widgets, links etc.So if you follow these tweaks on your blog your site’s loading speed will quickly come down and you can enjoy a much faster and comfortable browsing. A good site speed is also an indication of a quality blog and your readers won’t get frustrated while going through your pages.
Hope you enjoyed and learned from this post about speeding up your WordPress blog. Please leave your comments below.