Is your Woocommerce website slow? Very good, you are investigating it. If the page loading speed drops only one second, Amazon will lose each year $ 1.6 billion sales.
Quick loading page can increase conversion rate and SEO, reduce the abandonment of shopping carts, increase page views and maintain customer participation.
Tip: Use pingdom , gtmetrix , webpageTest or dareboost and other free online tools to test your page loading speed .
The good news is that in most cases, You can repair some key matters to repair the slow WOOCOMMERCE website .
1. You are using a slow custody service provider
1.50 US dollars/month on my right side Essence 1.75 US dollars/month on my left. You may think: the network hosting plan is too cheap.
When you are a newboCommerce novice, you have not made money from online sales and don’t want to spend a lot of money, this is good news. The initial stage of web hosting in the store is not the main concern, but about one year later -or earlier, depending on when your traffic and transactions start to rise -you need to pay attention to it.
One of the reasons for the slower of your Woocommerce website may be your online server (Also known as hosting service provider).
If you want the page to load quickly, you need good custody services. Not at a low price. There are two main solutions to solve your problems:
- Use a decent shared host
- . Most shared host plans will not allocate too many disk space, memory or bandwidth. Why? Because you share server resources with other customers. What happens when 10,000 people use the same bandwidth? It will slow down your website speed. Simple. Now you may want to know: How do I know whether my shared host is too slow? \”You can do this by logging in to the dashboard of CPANEL or host and accessing the resource use information of your website\” – Read more ]. Use the hosting host
- If you drive a lot of traffic, it will be more expensive, but it is more effective.
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Tip: If you don’t know which network custody company to choose,
Please check the WordPress host recommended by Woocommerce
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The network host recommended by Woocommerce To improve the performance of the store, make sure your host server is located in countries/regions where most customers live. This involves the next point -the importance of using content delivery network.
CDN is
server network around the world. Its goal is to store static files on your Woocommerce website, such as JavaScript, image and CSS.
This process can help you improve the performance of the website, because the closer your client is from the server, your website is loaded on their browser loaded The faster the speed.
CDN is very useful, especially if your target customers are distributed in different countries/regions.
There are many different CDN services available, including:
jet backpack photon
- Maximum CDN
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- Key CDN
- Which one should you choose?
WP Rocket provides the following suggestions:
\”When choosing a CDN, it is important to determine your needs, especially your visitors are mainly located in Where and your bandwidth requirements, so you can choose the CDN that can provide your audience best.
other considerations include how much you want to spend and how big your website is . \”
Most CDNs provide free plans, but unless you are in the earliest stage of the Woocommerce store, you should consider using advanced plans. 3. You did not use the cache plug -in Let us start from definition: The cache is the hardware or software component of the storage data, Therefore, you can handle the future request for the data faster.
In other words,
cache plug -in providing a stored web page
instead of loading the entire website every time the visitor visit it. It speeds up this process.
But- If the configuration is correct, the cache plug-in will only improve The loading speed of your website .
In fact, there are often problems with cache plugins because they are not set correctly! For example: you don’t want to cache the shopping car page or checkout page, because this will prevent your customers from adding the product to the shopping cart or paying the purchase fee.
If you decide to try to use the cache plug -in, please understand how to configure the cache plug -in for the WOOOCOMMERCE.
If you want to know which one of the two most well -known options is W3 Total Cache
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WP Rocket . 4. Your picture rulerInch is not optimized
High -quality pictures are important for the website, which may be more important for online stores! Especially when you show the visitors and rotate Trojan. High -quality usually means larger file size, and the larger file size may slow down your WOOCOMMERCE website.
The solution to avoid this situation is to optimize your image.
Especially considering
image accounts for 50% of the loading time of the website .
Fortunately, optimizing the picture does not mean that you want to provide customers with blurred product pictures. According to these order:
the image to the appropriate size. This picture guide Suggestion \”
The original picture you uploaded should be at least 800 x 800 pixels or higher, to apply most themes\” [[ 123] .
- Compress your image
- . Generally, the conventional size of the webpage is 2MB. Using EWWW Image Optimizer (free), WPSMUSHIT, or Imagified plug -in can reduce the image size by up to 70% -not affect the quality. If you are familiar with photo editing software, you can also use one of them to directly optimize your photos. For example, Photoshop allows you to save the picture with the \”save as a network\” function. You can also try gimp ,
- jpeg mini 123].
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Please keep in mind : Page response delay for 1 second will lead to a decrease of 7% . 5.You face the database problem In the life cycle of your WOOCOMMERCE website, your database will store a lot of information: products, orders, settings, etc. At first, this was not a big deal.
But after a few months on the Internet, it may become a problem, because Your database size will affect your website performance .
In other words, due to database problems, the loading time may be slow.
If so, you need to do some cleanup work. You can manually execute this task, such as using your CPANEL, but there are several WordPress plug -in to automatically optimize the process, making the process easier.
If you want to continue the database cleanup, please consider the following plug -in:
wp scan ]
WP Optimization Both of them will delete the revision and repeated entries in the database.
Woocommerce now provides options such as automatic deletion of old user accounts. From the perspective of database performance and privacy, this is meaningful.
- Finally, but the same important thing is that before using this plug -in, don’t forget to back up your website -file and database!
- Read this article about how to create and use site backups.
- 6. You have used a bad theme
Select
The theme
is not easy, especially for beginners who discover WordPress. There are many available themes, some of which will inject a large number of code in the page to achieve a certain layout.
When choosing the topic for WordPress, you need to consider a lot of things . One key point to check is that your theme coding is good and follow the WordPress standard. If not, it will slow down your WOOCOMMERCE website.
Check a simple test of your theme to slowTry to create a backup and switch to the default WordPress theme or store -WooCommerce theme, so it is the most optimized and most suitable theme for testing.
If your website is loaded faster after switching, then you now know that the problem lies in your theme.
For compatibility, try
]Storefront ，
“一个直观、灵活、免费的WordPress 主题，提供与WooCommerce 的深度集成。”
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If your store is still slow, then it is time to check the plug -in you have installed. 7. You use a bad plug -in
Performance problems are sometimes related to the plug -in loading.
Check whether there is a plug -in to make your WoOOCOMMERCE website slow down: Disable all plug -inss and revisit one by one until the potential reason is found. You can also use a plug -in manager to control the activation order, and open/turn off the plug -in on the basis of each page/post and through the mobile device.
Another choice of another test adverse plug -in recommended by the WooCommerce engineer is to use a health check.
Here
Not necessarily
is the connection between the number of plug -in and store speed running on your website- It is best to have ten well -coded extensions , Instead of a plug -in full of useless functions, these functions will destroy your website!
The code quality is the most important, but try not to use too many plug -ins, and Always Disable and/or delete any plug -in you no longer need. The next step is also the best practice!
8. You did not activate the latest PHP version on your website
You may know that WordPress is a PHP -based (a server -side script language) Open source CMS. Use Latest [12]3]
The PHP of the version can improve the performance of your store
. PHP 7 is 2-3 times faster than its predecessor (5.6.)!
You can update your PHP version through your network host.
Here is usually the module available on your cpanel . If not, or if you need support, please contact your host service provider.
Before updating your PHP version,
Test the latest version in the local environment – For example
wamp
, MAMP or Localbyflywheel .
Then, when you are ready, you can continue to implement changes on your production site.
Note: Many WordPress plug -ins have been completely compatible with PHP 7.2.
Woocommerce website is slow? It’s time to repair some! We have introduced a common problem that slows down the Woocommerce website. Maybe it is time to repair some? Pay attention to the backup, wish you good luck. Please comment on which technology is suitable for your store. If you have an idea to add, we are happy to listen to your suggestions. –
Written by Alex Borto, the founder of WP Marmite. Alex founded WP Marmite in February 2011 — initially, the goal of the blog is to help as many people as possible to find the perfect theme, but after three years of journey, Alex, Alex, Decide to go further and contact WordPress from top to bottom to help French users. Now Alex is working full -time, and other editors also join in for help. Pay attention to their blogs to get more exciting content and tips.
