If you're like me, you use WordPress for most--if not all-of your sites. It's an easy platform to work with.

There are tons of free themes and plugins, as well as premium, to get your site to look and act like you want it to.

But what a lot of people screw up is page load time. In fact, they don't even think about it until it's too late.

Imagine building a website full of unique content that is actually ranking in Google for popular search terms.

You're getting traffic, but it's not converting.

You aren't making sales. Your bounce rate is HIGH. Like SUPER HIGH. Nobody's sticking around long enough to read about your offers.

Why?

Odds are, your site load times are L-O-N-G. Anything over 2 seconds is bad. But I've seen WordPress sites that take 20 seconds to load.

Heck, just the other day, I built a site that took almost 10 seconds to load the home page. UGH.

Turns out, I had a bigass image on the home page that was taking about 8 seconds to load (compress your images, boys and girls).

Also, consider:

• Using fewer plugins
• Using a caching plugin (it's essential nowadays)
• Using a CDN
• Using a quality webhost that's optimized for WordPress (like A2 Hosting -- get the Turbo plan)
• Make your images as small as possible without looking crappy (that's a technical term, by the way)

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Make it a great day!

Bill

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