Top WordPress Plugins for Speeding Up Your Website

As a content management system for websites ranging from blogs to businesses, WordPress is hard to beat. It’s fast to install, easy to use, very secure and under constant development. One thing WordPress isn’t, though, is fast — at least not on some shared hosting platforms. Companies that sell shared hosting often put as many customers as possible on the same servers to maximize their profits. For customers, though, overselling of shared hosting services often leads to websites that are slow to respond to database queries or exhibit poor performance during periods of heavy traffic. Does your website give users a poor experience because of slow speeds? No problem. The active WordPress development community has created a large selection of WordPress plugins that can resolve your website’s speed issues. These are our favorites. Continue reading…