WordPress, as a platform, is extremely well coded. However, some people mess their WordPress installations up by installing tons of low-quality plugins, choosing an awful web host, and filling their site with heaps of garbage.

Even if you don’t do something as stupid as these with your site, there’s still a lot of room for improvement when it comes to speeding up your WordPress site. I optimize around 8-10 WordPress sites in an average month, and there are a few techniques I always leverage to optimize and speed up WordPress sites.

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Step 1 : Update WordPress

WordPress is updated at regular intervals to resolve security issues as they occur. So you should always keep it up to date with the latest version because older versions of WordPress are not maintained with security updates.

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