![]() In fact I am doing this with all the images in this article. SO if you can use a URL to “pull” or display your images from your server – what is stopping you from pasting a URL link and pulling an image from someone else’s server? The answer is…Nothing at all. This is the file that we are trying to trim down or avoid getting too big. This is where all WordPress image uploads are stored. ![]() It looks like this: and you can see it is stored under my website’s “wp-content” file. So when you add those images to a WordPress blog post via the “add media” tab, what you are actually doing is linking to that image file via its image url. Instead of going through every image on our sitee and reducing their individual sizes, we are going to achieve this by “hot linking” or hosting our images elsewhere. ![]() ![]() When using the above tools remember: it’s not only your home page that you want loading quickly – it’s your actual posts and pages too. Here are two popular tools that will help you determine how quickly, or slowly, your pages are loading and also offer advice on how to reduce those times. It may be best to ignore the majority of these for now and focus on improving your actual blogging. If you would like to view some of the other ranking factors, you can do so here but BE WARNED: getting into this stuff can be a very slippery and time consuming slope. If you weren’t aware, your website speed is a ranking factor that Google takes into account when determining your position in their search results. For user experience: So that people actually stick around to read or view your content.The two most important reasons you want your site to load faster are: What is Page Speed and why does it matter?Īccording to Moz.com “Page Speed is a measurement of how fast the content on your page or post loads.” This is not to be confused with “site speed” which is the average page speed for a number of visits to a variety of pages on your website.
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