How to speed up your WordPress site
A faster site keeps visitors happy and ranks better. Here are the highest-impact ways to speed up WordPress on BPHOST hosting — two in CHPanel, the rest inside WordPress.
Quick wins in CHPanel
- Run the newest PHP. Sign in at chpanel.bphost.biz with your hosting account email address and CHPanel password, open the PHP tab (Select PHP Version) and pick PHP 8.3 — or the newest version your plugins support — for the site. PHP 8 is much faster than 7.x, and the change applies within seconds.
- Turn on compression. On the Home page, under Software, open Optimize Website and switch on gzip so pages, scripts and stylesheets download smaller.
Inside WordPress
- Use a caching plugin such as WP Super Cache or W3 Total Cache, so pages are served ready-made instead of being built on every visit.
- Right-size your images. Upload photos at the size they will be shown (a 4,000-pixel photo in an 800-pixel column is wasted bandwidth) and compress them; an image-optimisation plugin can do this automatically.
- Use a light theme and delete plugins you do not use.
- Keep WordPress, themes and plugins updated — newer versions are usually faster.
Going further
- Put a CDN such as Cloudflare in front of the site to serve content closer to your visitors.
- Limit heavy page builders and large sliders.
- Clean out post revisions and spam comments now and then.
Tip
Test before and after with a free tool like PageSpeed Insights. Want us to check your setup? Open a support ticket.