Improved Self-Hosted WordPress Performance
My self-hosted WordPress website was slow. Google Analytics Site Speed showed page load times fluctuating from 8 to over 15 seconds. I know that anything over 2 seconds is bad and results in lower traffic and search engine referrals. I have put up with this slowness for years, but now I need to address this problem. I spent time with Google searching and reading about WordPress settings, plugins, content delivery networks (CDNs), and web host configurations that are designed to improve…