{"id":1638,"date":"2020-01-12T08:59:51","date_gmt":"2020-01-12T08:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saadashraf.net\/blog\/?p=1638"},"modified":"2020-01-12T08:59:51","modified_gmt":"2020-01-12T08:59:51","slug":"how-to-use-wp-rocket-to-automate-your-wordpress-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saadashraf.net\/blog\/how-to-use-wp-rocket-to-automate-your-wordpress-site\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Use WP Rocket to Automate Your WordPress Site?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Ok, modern websites load CSS files for styling, have Javascript files to add user interaction and scripts for analytics and appear to have a lot more photos.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">And what makes it worse, do you know? Plugins.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">You might have five plugins loading their stylesheets each. It ensures that five additional CSS files to each visitor that comes to your site.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">I&#8217;m not saying that plugins are inherently wrong, but WordPress sites tend to load a ton of files as each plugin loads files independently of each other.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">WordPress or not, building a new site that only loads seven files is impractical, but we can do much better if we customize our pages correctly.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><u>Want to know the answer?<\/u><\/h3>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">It can help mediate these issues very effectively, and here at Compete Themes is a cornerstone of our performance optimization.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">With this update, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saadashraf.net\/\">W<\/a><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saadashraf.net\/\">eb Designer Dubai<\/a> <span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">will cover the three places where you will see the most significant performance improvements. I&#8217;m going to share all the menus screenshots at the end of the post, too, so you can check all the available settings.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>1.\u00a0 \u00a0<u>Caching:<\/u><\/h4>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Once you have imported and enabled WP Rocket, you will have access to its beautiful dashboard where you can start optimizing. WP Rocket switches on the cache as soon as you trigger it. You could trigger the plugin literally and always log out of your site, and it would load faster.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><u>How does it help?<\/u><\/h3>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The automated caching is difficult to appreciate if you are not sure how it affects your site.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Think of caching like this: File metaphor cabinet Imagine you need a document you need to get it from the file cabinet the next time you need that document.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Caching is like keeping the paper on your desk until you find it so that you can instantly use it again. Just as getting the document from your office is faster than getting it from the cabinet of your file, caching prevents unnecessary trips to the database.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The point is, no matter how many files your site loads or how big they are, they all load with caching enabled much faster.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>1.\u00a0 \u00a0<u>File optimization:<\/u><\/h4>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The section on file optimization is where you will reduce the number of files loaded by your site and the size of those files.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>\u00b7\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<em>Minification:<\/em><\/h4>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Minification also eliminates the space between characters and strips all the text of comments. It reduces the size of the file so that it will load faster.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00b7\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><strong><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Concatenation:<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Minification reduces the size of review files, and they concatenate. Your website will load more quickly with fewer, smaller data. These two processes are high for performance, and any plugin than WP Rocket no better handles them suggested by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saadashraf.net\/\">Freelance W<\/a><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saadashraf.net\/\">eb Designer Abu Dhabi<\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00b7\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><strong><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">CSS files:<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">You can minify all CSS files to give you a small boost in performance and then allow the &#8220;combine&#8221; option to concatenate them into as few as possible files. While it is possible when using this option to end up with display issues on your web, it is usually not a problem.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>2.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<u>Media optimization:<\/u><\/h3>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">WP Rocket has a few new options to optimize media on your platform, including slow, highly efficient loading.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><u>What is lazy loading?<\/u><\/h3>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">It will keep track of how far down the page visitors have scrolled and will not load images until visitors are close to reaching them with lazy loading allowed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The downside is that your site loads quicker instantly when you load so many fewer videos. It also reduces the site&#8217;s bandwidth.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00b7\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><strong><u><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Emojis and embeds:<\/span><\/u><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">WP Rocket also offers convenient options for disabling emoji support and integrate technology for WordPress. Each of these features loads a small JS file to delete two more data from your site by disabling them all.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00b7\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><strong><u><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Videos and iframes:<\/span><\/u><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">You can enable lazy loading for videos and iframes. There&#8217;s also a great feature to display the thumbnail of a Youtube video until it finishes loading.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Also, read\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/saadashraf.net\/blog\/use-image-and-visuals-to-capture-users-attention\/\"><strong>Use images and visuals to capture users&#8217; attention<\/strong><\/a><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><strong><u><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Speed you your website with WP Rocket:<\/span><\/u><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">If you are willing to optimize your site, take a copy of WP Rocket and speed up your site. And if you haven&#8217;t thought about switching hosts,<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong><u><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Let&#8217;s Get in touch:<\/span><\/u><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">I recommend that you check out this WP Engine review. A faster host can impact enormously and immediately on the load times of your site. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saadashraf.net\/\"><strong>Contact me today<\/strong><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, modern websites load CSS files for styling, have Javascript files to add user interaction and scripts for analytics and appear to have a lot more photos. And what makes it worse, do you know? Plugins. You might have five plugins loading their stylesheets each. 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