WordPress Speed Optimization: Improve Your Website Performance & Make It Faster (Step-By-Step)

👉 Try Oxygen today: https://oxygenbuilder.com/try-oxygen/. Is your WordPress website slow, scoring badly on Core Web Vitals, and frustrating visitors? In this WordPress speed optimization tutorial, Elijah shows you how to achieve your desired WordPress speed optimization end-result in a few practical steps: without third-party plugins or external tools. You’ll see exactly how to speed up a WordPress site the way pros do it, focusing on real-world perceived performance, not just synthetic or artificial scores. In the video, we walk through a live WordPress website and apply seven WordPress speed optimization tips you can reuse on any project. You’ll learn how to lazy load images and use explicit width/height, resize and compress image files, remove built-in WordPress bloat and unnecessary scripts, load Google Fonts locally, and enable caching & compression. By the end, you’ll know how to improve your site and apply the WordPress speed optimization steps so that pages feel faster, look cleaner, and perform better in slow connections. === Chapters === 00:00 Introduction 00:38 Disclaimer 01:00 What we'll focus on 01:11 The setup 01:51 Perceived performance 03:22 Loading images 06:54 Images: width & height 11:50 Optimizing image files 17:12 Re-run perceived performance test 18:06 Unnecessary assets 20:45 Disable jQuery in frontend 23:12 Loading Google font locally 26:51 Enable caching & compression 33:14 The 7 WordPress Speed Optimization Tips === Frequently Asked Questions === Q: How to speed up a WordPress site without a plugin? A: To speed up a WordPress site without using a plugin, you can change how your images load by using lazy loading, remove any unnecessary scripts and enable caching & compression. Q: How to fix a slow WordPress website? A: Find the source of the slowness and fix the issue at its core. This can be done by disabling plugins that cause slowness, optimizing your images, using lazy loading, removing or optimizing scripts, etc. You can watch the video above to see this in action. Q: How to improve your website speed? A: There several key aspects you can influence to improve you website speed, starting with image improvements like lazy load or defining sizes, checking what scripts and code runs in your site and optimizing it or deduplicating unnecessary requests. You can also enable caching and compression. Q: Which WordPress Builder is Best? A: It's definitely Oxygen Builder. It let's you build stunning, high-performance websites with WordPress, giving you complete creative freedom. Q: Do Professional Website Builders use WordPress? A: Yes, WordPress is the platform of choice for professional website builders due to its ease-of-use and customization capabilities. When paired with Oxygen Builder, it's unmatched to help developers create professional websites. === Related Resources === Watch a video showing how we build websites using Oxygen:    • Oxygen Builder: Why We Build with a Fundam...   Learn more about Oxygen: https://oxygenbuilder.com/ Check Oxygen's Documentation: https://oxygenbuilder.com/documentation/ PageSpeed Insights https://pagespeed.web.dev/ GTmetrix https://gtmetrix.com/ Gift of Speed https://www.giftofspeed.com/ Photopea: https://www.photopea.com/ Asset CleanUp: Page Speed Booster https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-asse... Font Squirrel https://www.fontsquirrel.com/ Google Webfonts Helper https://gwfh.mranftl.com/fonts/