WordPress is meant to be simple but with regular updates and a new wave of plugins, it is getting more and more complex. At the core, WordPress is a set of PHP scripts and a single database.
There are many WordPress plugin development services in the market which always tries to build fast and optimized WordPress sites but not everyone is successful in this effort.
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What is making WordPress complicated?
It is well known fact that Database issues can slow down the WordPress sites. Any task you do, it creates some complexity in the database, from regularly posting your posts to metadata messes and comment confusion. If sites are in production for daily use, it becomes a great issue going forward as database issues have a tendency to complicate things. Images also complicate matters as WordPress makes multiple copies of every uploaded image in multiple sizes. These simple PHP scripts get very complicated when users add multiple themes and plugins although some of them work well.
How WP Optimize can Help you?
WP Optimize is a new tool that handles speed issues in WordPress and removes potential database problems resulting in less complexity. Its friendly software, Viper Cache also add higher speeds to sites with lesser issues.
Most of WordPress website development companies are busy building WordPress sites ignoring loading time issues. When we check on monthly basis there are so many websites which gets affected so much that they often take down other sites on the same server. If there is a sudden upside in site visits, an efficient WordPress installation takes bandwidth and processing power from other sites. It generally takes whole day or even more to get everything right by often removing unoptimized images.
WP Optimize can Resolve Image Optimization Issue
Good thing is that WP Optimiser can resolve image optimization issue quickly. This plugin can optimize legacy images. It can optimize upto 500 images daily. The user just have to set it up once and then it will work in the background. Once this feature is active, it will automatically optimize the images that are uploaded to the media library or set as the features image on a post. With each uploaded image WordPress automatically create multiple resized versions which are required by theme which will also be optimized. This plugin uses the popular image optimization service TinyPNG which applies the best possible optimization techniques.
This plugin also speeds up page loading time by halting images until the reader sees them. This is very beneficial for image intensive sites. It also delays loading of images outside of the browsers and web page visible part. It make Images not to be loaded until the user scrolls down to them. On long pages having many large images, this makes the page load much faster by reducing load on server and saves bandwidth.
You can also enable or disable Lazy Load images on an individual post or page using WP Optimiser.
WP Optimize can Optimize the Database Tables
WordPress database have many tables which over time becomes inefficient as you add, change or remove data. If you optimize these tables regularly then it will keep your site to run efficiently. Every time you create or edit a post or page, WordPress creates a revision of that post or page which can quickly add lots of unwanted data to your database making it slower to access. Also you might have thousands of spam comments in your comments table which should also be cleaned. This plugin provides a snapshot of your WordPress database, enabling you to quickly see, diagnose and rectify the table issues.
WP Optimize Can do Website Health Check
WP Optimize also has one more great feature. Using this plugin you can do site health check which can give you an accurate overview of how good or bad your site environment is. It tests your software setup, server status, connectivity and suggests you which action to take. WP Optimiser checks ten different measures of site and server health daily and informs you before you have a site-crash or site slowing issue.
WP Optimize Can Compare Your Site Against a Standard Site
One more feature of WP Optimize is which we earlier used the P3 plugin for. Many WP users know the P3 plugin. The site speed profiler or WP Optimiser sees the speed impact of your WordPress core, themes and plugins and it also shows you a comparison of your site against a standard site with default set of plugins and WordPress default theme. Its aim is to look and find out any slow themes and plugins so that we can replace these with better ones. WP Optimiser does this better than the P3 plugin.
WP Optimize compares your site against a known standard site, checks the overall site load time, plugin load times, theme load time and also the time the core WordPress files takes to load. Checking WordPress core load time is important as it can tell you if your hosting and not your WordPress instance is having some issue. It will also tell you the exact load time of each plugin. If you have installed lots of WordPress plugins to extend your site functionalities or access tools like auto-Tweets etc, WP Optimiser will tell you exactly which plugin is affecting your site’s load time.
WP Optimisze Can do A/B Split Tests
You can also use it to A/B Split test different themes or even for theme customization, as WP Optimiser keeps a record of each profile run. This is one of the best debugging approach.
Conclusion
Whatever efforts you make to make an error and issue free WordPress site. But still there remain some issues due to which the loading speed of your WordPress site can get affected. We have just discussed how you can use WP Optimiser Plugin to optimize your images and database in your WordPress site and how you can resolve most of the speed related issues. Hence if you have created a WordPress site, you must install WP Optimiser plugin to optimize your WP site with ease.
