So guys in this lecture we're going to be talking about speeding up your website.
Now in today's society when everything is going so fast we're used to such a high pace we need to have
a website that loads really quickly.
Your visitors are not going to be patient and wait around for it to be loading.
So here we're going to be learning how to make your website faster.
Why if it isn't obvious already.
And also how it works.
So the number one reason is why.
Well the first one is self-evident.
It is for your visitors.
They're not going to be patient.
They're not going to be waiting around.
Everything happens quickly.
Your website need to happen quickly as well.
Now another thing is actually for S E O search engine optimization now the faster your website loads
the happier these search engines are going to be about it and rank you higher.
If you don't know what that means don't worry.
In the next lecture we're going to be talking about SEO and install a plug in for that.
But for now let's just know that the faster your website is the happier your visitors will be and the
happier the search engines will be.
So how do we speed up your Web site.
Well we're going to use something called caching and caching is basically taking all of your big files
on your Web sites such as the header such as the pictures may be possible videos whatever it might be
as heavy images weigh a lot especially when you have a lot on your Web site.
We're going to take all of those compressed them into smaller sizes and put them in a so-called cash.
Basically you're not going to have everything load instantly.
Instead you're going to have your visitors save this cash on their computer so that they can pre load.
Right.
They don't have to download everything and make it appear rather it will be saved on their computer
and they can just appear much faster which is going to be giving them a better experience.
So that is what caching is.
And that is how you speed up your Web sites.
Now I already have a cash plug in of course like always that I use myself it's super easy and I strongly
recommend it.
We're gonna install it and go through it.
But if you decide to do your own research here are the top three things to look for.
Number one is extra home piece shakes.
Now a lot of people usually are going to be spending a lot of time on your home page and likely even
if you have navigation and great navigation people may be returning to your home page.
So having a cash plug in that's going to do extra checks on your home page is going to be great to make
sure that it's not slow loading because if that part on your Web site is slow then their experience
is going to be heavily deteriorated.
And then next to number two is content delivery network support.
This is called C.D. and support.
And basically it means that when someone visits your Web site they're going to be loading the files
from where you have your files.
For example if you're using Blue Hose and you have your files in the U.S. then wherever they come from
they're going to have to load the files your images your articles the header the videos et cetera from
the U.S..
Now what the CDM support does is that it takes all of your cache files and it puts it at different servers
around the world.
So for example if you are living in Australia and there is a CDM survey in Australia they will be downloading
all of the files and contents of your website from Australia which is going to load so much faster rather
than downloading it from USA.
OK so that is what the CDMA network is and it's one of those things that makes your website so much
faster.
I strongly recommend it you find a plug in the headsets.
And the third thing is a preload.
Now first time visitors coming to your website are first going to have to visit the website and then
they will be catched.
And of course that means that everyone's first experience might be slow and that's no good.
You want to have a plug in that has a pre load setting meaning you can pre catch everything and then
put it to your visitors so even their first time experience will be great and fast.
Remember high pay society our website our business need to match this.
So now when we understand how to speed up our website and what it does let's go ahead and do just that.
So I am in the ad plug in section at the back end for Web site.
I'm gonna go to search plug ins and I'm going to search for wordpress super cash and looking to the
left.
Here it is it has a lot of installations and even though it is not updated so it's untested with the
current WordPress we can trust this one.
This one is created by automatic which is the same bunch of guys who helped create WordPress dot org
and created WordPress dot com.
So these are part of the programs for the platform that we're currently using.
So this plug in has been around for a long time and I expect it to stay around for a long long time
as well.
So we're gonna go ahead and install it and then just click on activate and there we go it's installed
so now all we're gonna do is move over to settings which is where is resides and go to the bottom where
it says WP super cache and then it's pretty straightforward.
All you're gonna do is click on catch on and then update the status.
And now it will be on and working.
So there are a couple of things that we want to set up in here.
All you need to do is follow along with me.
It's actually super easy we're just gonna use the recommended settings.
So first let's move on to advanced in here.
What we're gonna do is we're going to remove this one don't cache pages for known users which is great.
In case you're doing updates for frequent visitors then they and you won't be able to see those updates
so you don't want to cast a page for those known users.
And then we have compressed pages so that they serve more quickly to visitors which is also great the
more compressed the faster they're going to load.
We're just going to go with the recommended settings here.
That just works great.
Scrolling down we have that super important setting.
I was talking about earlier extra home page checks.
I'm gonna check that one as well.
Scroll down and click on update status and then we're gonna move into the CDM and we're going to be
enabling that support.
Right.
And then we're gonna save the changes again and let's move over to contents and in here you're gonna
be able to see everything that's been cash how heavy they are how much there is but there's nothing
for us to do here.
What we could do is that we could delete the cache which we can also do from up above here should we
want to reset it because we have done some major updates or just to test the speed.
For example they can all be deleted up here and then we're gonna move over to preload and here we're
going to settings so that the refresh preload the cache fast for every I like to put 1440 minutes because
that's a day.
So we're going to refresh the preloaded cache files every day right.
So this is a standard setting and I recommend to use it as well.
Now we're gonna make sure that we have preload activated by clicking here and we're also going to go
ahead and preload tags and categories and other taxonomy.
Now we've gone through tags and categories already and we will be making sure to be using those and
then we're gonna click on save settings.
And once we've done this everything is set up.
It's on and running and it's making your website faster however since we just recently started this
website there isn't going to be too much things on it.
So you're probably not going to be noticing any improvement right now but ask you continue building
your website building your business then you're going to be having a noticeable effect working in the
background.
We're just going to make sure that we set this from the beginning so that your website is always as
fast as it possibly can be.
Now if you want to test the speed of your website what you can do is use this age old tool is called
pinged them.
So I'm gonna put this tool in the resources as well and all you do is that you write in your website
in here and then you can test it from different places to see how fast it loads.
So what you might want to do if you are unsure about this plug in for some reason is go over to plug
ins in here to your installed plug ins.
Scroll down to your WP super catch deactivated.
Test the speed of your website and then reactivated test the speed of your website and you're going
to see the difference.
Now again you're probably not going to see an a difference in the beginning.
Your website doesn't have too many things.
But as time goes it's going to be a huge difference.
It's just one of these things we want to get right from the beginning.
Awesome guys I'll see you in the next lecture when we're gonna go through.
S E O.
Which is such a huge topic.
See you there.