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5 WordPress Plugins To Increase Your Website’s Performance

August 26, 2020 by Erica Silva 23 Comments



The loading time of your website directly affects your business. Website performance has a huge role to play in improving your bottom-line. Many website owners prefer to have graphics and elements that look beautiful, but on the backend, they slow down the website.

It affects user experience, and thus website rankings. According to Kissmetrics, if an e-commerce site is making $100,000 per day, a 1-second page delay could potentially cost you $2.5 million in lost sales every year. 

WordPress is a favorite platform for global business leaders. That’s why there are many WordPress plugins which can be installed on the site to improve performance. Check out some of our recommended plugins for improving website performance:

WP Fastest Cache:

One of the most concerning issues in website performance is cache. Cache cleaning plugins can be of immense help in reducing load times. WP Fastest Cache is a great plugin for this purpose.

It comes with a lot of features that provide ease of use. For plugins available in the market, some are very complicated to use, while others are too simple to perform the job.

The developers of this plugin have found a middle ground. And its usability levels are just perfect. All you have to do it install the plugin, activate it through an easy tutorial and you are ready to go!

The plugin has received great reviews from people on wordpress.org. You can also follow the community of people who use this plugin on their sites. Some of the notable features of this plugin include;

  • Easy installation and setup
  • Cache clearing in one click
  • Minify HTML AND CSS
  • Customize which pages to include and which elements to exclude
  • Setting expiration times for URLs
  • Setting expiration time limits for pages
  • Integration with CDN
  • A premium version which comes with extra features

Salesmate:

In the world of e-commerce, website performance is directly correlated to sales and conversions. If a website is slow, customers will find it hard to browse through products or make a purchase.

This is where the Salesmate plugin comes in. It works perfectly to improve the e-commerce experience of your site. It can integrate with the most popular apps in the world.

You can keep your sales information centralized through Google’s suite of apps and utilize Google CRM services through the plugin.

Integrating it with your WordPress e-commerce site is very simple. This plugin’s simplicity is one of its best features. The WordPress CRM plugin can:

  • Track sales goals
  • Utilize sales intelligence
  • Forecast sales
  • Manage deals
  • Automate data entry
  • Track activities, and
  • Send smart emails

WP Smush:

Images and other media content with larger file sizes slow sites down. You can solve this issue and speed up your site easily by installing WP Smush.

It is a trusted image compression plugin. And the best part is that it compresses images without compromising their quality.

Previously, smaller image sizes meant poor image quality. WP Smush has solved this dilemma.

Here are some of its important features;

  • It supports and compresses all image formats like JPEG, GIF, and PNG
  • It automatically removes unused colors from your images
  • It can run smoothly with other plugins on your site
  • It can compress images in your image directory
  • It automatically removes metadata from your JPEG images
  • If you are short on time, you can compress up to 50 images at once
  • Image optimization becomes easy with WP Smush

WP-Optimize:

Running a busy WordPress site or blog often poses the issue of database optimization. You can end up with an inefficient database as days turn into weeks and months.

Whenever you create a page or post, WordPress creates a new copy of it.  For example, if you have edited a page or post 7 times, there will be 7 copies of it.  It keeps piling up like this and starts slowing down your website.

There is just too much-unwanted data in your database. In some cases, having a large and unstable database leads to a ton of spam in the comments section, with unapproved comments and spam further affecting site performance.

WP-Optimize allows you to clean up your database and optimize it, so it looks better and performs faster.

With WP-Optimize, your WordPress’s database will become clean, fast and efficient. Once the plugin is installed, you can customize the timings so it runs automatically. Schedule a time for clean-up. Things it can automatically clean are:

  • spam comments
  • unnecessary revisions
  • trashed content
  • MySQL Tables
  • And it will also show database statistics

WP Super Minify:

The logic behind minifying is to combine CSS files, HTML, and JS so they can be served to visitors in a compressed way. It greatly reduces a site’s load times.

Keep in mind that this plugin requires setting up before you can use it.

WP Super Minify Plugin will solve your compression issues and also give you the option to disable the compression of JavaScript or CSS. Some notable features include:

  • Minifying JavaScript and HTML
  • Disabling JavaScript compression
  • Easy to use and install
  • It is free of cost

Verdict:

So, what are you waiting for? Today, WordPress has evolved into a highly efficient content management system. It can house all kinds of sites, and is particularly well-suited for e-commerce websites.

The performance of WordPress websites can improve considerably with the help of plugins and its vast global community of users.

Are there any other plugins you use to improve your site’s performance? Share them with us in comments below!

Related posts:

  1. 4 best wordpress optimization plugins
  2. Useful Plugins for Creating Custom Forms with WordPress

About Erica Silva

Erica Silva is a blogger who loves to discover and explore the world around her. She writes on everything from marketing to technology, science and brain health. She enjoys sharing her discoveries and experiences with readers and believes her blogs can make the world a better place.

I Would Love to See Your Comments & Feedback:

  1. tanya jain says

    March 9, 2018 at 11:16 pm

    Hey, Loved what you write in the field of digital marketing. Please Suggest something for my site.

    Reply
  2. Jillian Michelle says

    April 21, 2018 at 3:55 am

    Some of my photos (from when I first started blogging and had absolutely no clue what I was doing lol) are way too large in file size. I’ve thought about deleting them and re-uploading. But that will take so much time that I don’t really have. I might have to look into this WP Smush plugin! <3
    Jillian Michelle recently posted..Boracay Activities Guide – the 20+ Best Things To Do in BoracayMy Profile

    Reply
  3. Nomi says

    May 4, 2018 at 1:06 pm

    Nice post,Pretty! This was an extremely wonderful article. Thank you for providing these details.

    Reply
  4. Maggie Lauh says

    July 24, 2018 at 1:53 pm

    Hi Erica,

    Excellent article, thanks for sharing.

    W3 total cache is a good choice too.

    Reply
  5. Tu Nguyen says

    July 25, 2018 at 8:21 am

    Thanks You

    Reply
  6. Muhammad Asif says

    October 1, 2018 at 10:54 pm

    Hi Erica,
    Its very helpful article. actually i was searching for that kind of article. Thanks for sharing informative article.

    Reply
  7. Krook says

    October 11, 2018 at 10:00 am

    Hello Sir,

    Its really nice article, now i am able to understand. i am the guy always look for the performance of the website.
    Krook recently posted..Facebook has launched Facebook Lite version for iPhone UsersMy Profile

    Reply
  8. Kyle Sloka-Frey says

    December 17, 2018 at 9:55 pm

    Great piece! For other readers, double check your options if you are using both WP Fastest Cache and CloudFlare CDN, they can have some compatibility issues.

    Reply
  9. Nishant Pandey says

    January 11, 2019 at 8:54 pm

    Nice post Erica!
    I use W3 Total cache and Optimzilla for image compression. I must say W3 cache plugin greatly improved my website’s performance.

    Reply
  10. Nick says

    February 26, 2019 at 5:49 pm

    Enjoyed this Erica!

    W3 Total cache is what i use, it seems to be pretty good!

    Thanks for sharing your expertise!
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    Reply
  11. Arfeen Sheikh says

    March 30, 2019 at 2:47 pm

    Thank you for your helpful blogs. I really enjoy your style of writing and the insights you
    so graciously share.
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    Reply
  12. Prakash Mane says

    April 7, 2019 at 6:09 pm

    This is the first time I was on your blog
    Indeed, this article is great because it covers everything and is very deep. Awesome!

    Reply
  13. Rahul Ahlawat says

    July 4, 2019 at 11:39 am

    I have been following your blog for past 1 week and somehow I missed this article on wordpress plugins. Trust me this is a great article to read.

    Keep up the good work !!!

    Reply
  14. Dilip says

    July 16, 2019 at 2:11 pm

    Nice post thanks for sharing with us

    Reply
  15. AvaGoddarda says

    July 25, 2019 at 10:59 pm

    WordPress plugin helps us to enhance the performance of functionality your article is very helpful for web developers. Thanks for sharing this type of article.

    Reply
  16. Aakash Dubey says

    November 4, 2019 at 2:40 am

    thank you, Erica, for sharing this awesome post right now I using wp rocket on my blog and its also work great

    Reply
  17. Gaurav Chandel says

    November 29, 2019 at 11:22 pm

    Hi Erica!
    WP-Optimize is working fine for me.
    Thanks for sharing this vauable information with all of us.

    Reply
  18. ahmad says

    January 9, 2020 at 11:51 am

    great exta tep and thnk you for shering

    Reply
  19. Vignesh Parab says

    January 10, 2020 at 12:46 pm

    Thanks for providing this informative article. This is really helpful.

    Reply
  20. sureshyadav says

    January 15, 2020 at 3:00 pm

    This blog provides a information about a WordPress plugin and how to grow a web site.

    Reply
  21. Web Designing Kerala says

    January 22, 2020 at 2:48 pm

    Hi Erica,
    Your content is genuinely good and sharing pleasant thoughts.
    Looking forward for moreintresting and worth reading articles like this!
    Thanks a lot!

    Reply
  22. Ganeshbazarh says

    February 4, 2020 at 9:22 pm

    Hi
    Excellent article, thanks for sharing.

    Reply
  23. Asad says

    February 15, 2020 at 8:39 pm

    i really enjoyed my website speed increased 40 percent more thank you very much for your helpful and informative articles….keep it up…

    Reply

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