WordPress Speed Optimisation Service
Website visitors are very sensitive to website speed. A 1-second delay can reduce page views by 11%. Try our WordPress Speed Optimisation services to supercharge your website’s performance and to score 90+ on GTmetrix and Google PageSpeed Insights today!
Why choose us:
- Strategic approach
- Attention to detail
- Experienced team
- Guidance throughout
- Flexibility and speed
- Handover and training
Why website speed optimisation matters
Website speed is one of the few factors that directly impact the website’s search engine rankings. As a search engine’s primary goal is to deliver the best user experience to users, slow websites are directly penalised and are much less likely to rank at the top of search engine results.
Bounce rate is one of the key SEO factors. It shows whether people stay on your website or leave immediately after visiting. And a website that loads too slowly will have higher bounce rates. In fact, when a website’s loading time increases from 1 to 5 seconds, the bounce rate increases by 90%!
Website speed is one of the most important factors that define the quality of user experience. Users can easily get frustrated when it takes a page too long to load. Even if you have an outstanding design and great content, users won’t wait to see it if it takes too long to load.
Users that are frustrated by the performance of your website and leave, are unlikely to return later or to browse other pages of your website during their session.
Website page speed might not seem directly related to conversion rates, but it is. According to a Google page load time study, a one-second delay in load time can cost you 7% of your conversions. Website speed optimisation will result in lower bounce rates, more page views and a better user experience, which in turn will result in a better image, higher engagement and improved conversion rates.
Straightforward pricing plans
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All plans include:
- World-class proprietary speed algorithm
- Automatic Google PageSpeed optimisation
- Advanced caching mechanism
- Complete image optimization stack
- HTML, CSS and JS minification & compression
- Built-in global CDN
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Why we're your one-stop-shop for good design
Strategic approach
We take a strategic approach to each of our client projects and pay great attention to all aspects of your website speed. We offer several WordPress website speed optimisation packages which differ in terms of the website’s traffic and bandwidth requirements. So you can choose a package tailored to your website’s needs and we will take care of your website speed optimisation on an ongoing basis!
Proven value for money
We believe in overdelivering and providing excellent value to our clients. Our rates are derived based on thorough research of dozens of comparable agencies that deliver similar quality service and output. And our rates are set to be the most competitive among them!
Attention to detail
We pay meticulous attention to the tiniest details of your website and optimise your website so that it reaches its highest loading speed!
Experienced team
Our team consists of highly experienced graphic, UI/UX and web designers, project managers and web developers, each with at least five years of experience in their area of expertise. Every deliverable is checked by the art director with over 15 years of experience, the project manager and your account manager before it is submitted for your review. Our team has vast experience in building and maintaining WordPress websites, working with different industries and various types of websites, from e-commerce sites to blogs and forums. We’ll make sure your website scores 90+ on Google Page Insights and GTMetrix.
Guidance throughout
Our team is always there to answer your questions and resolve any issues that may arise. WordPress speed optimisation can take some time to implement, and many parts have interdependencies, but we guide our clients through the process from day one, setting accurate expectations and aiming to under-promise but overdeliver every time! Regardless of the project, you will work with an account manager and a project manager, who will update you every few days, ensuring you’re always aware of the progress.
Flexibility and speed
We appreciate that priorities and requirements might vary greatly even for similar tasks, sometimes, it may be crucial to have something done on the same day, and another time, an important factor may be the budget. We always try to understand the priorities and accommodate specific requests wherever possible. We also pride ourselves on having a very fast turnaround speed by all design agency standards. Typically you can expect to receive an update from us every 3-4 working days, so you’ll never be left waiting for long!
Handover and training
We aim to create long-term relationships with all of our clients so they’ll have a reliable partner to turn to whenever they need to make any updates down the line. Having said that, we believe in empowering our clients to maintain their websites as much as possible, so we provide all the access necessary together with detailed instructions and recordings to support the everyday management of the site, so they aren’t dependent on us for minor updates and instead can draw on our expertise for areas which need our assistance the most.
Frequently
Asked Questions
Why are WordPress speed optimisation services important?
One of the most important reasons for getting WordPress speed optimisation services is that it’s essential for SEO and conversions. A slow website will not attract users and encourage them to interact with it. High-quality WordPress speed optimisation services ensure that your website is monitored and optimised on an ongoing basis, and if the speed gets slower, it will be automatically re-optimised.
What is the cost of WordPress speed optimisation?
The cost of WordPress speed optimisation services depends on what particular needs and requirements you have for your website, how many pageviews or how much bandwidth you need. Usually, agencies charge monthly fees to maintain and support your website’s speed. At our agency, the prices begin at $24/month for starter packages.
What affects WordPress site speed?
There are many reasons why your WordPress website can be slow. Some reasons that affect the site speed are poorly designed themes/pages, large media files, excessive plugins and scripts, server issues and lack of caching. To make sure your website works fast, you need to regularly monitor and update your website.
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“Their attention to detail was brilliant with great design innovations where there was room for them.”
Hugh Fraser
Doorway
“Their comments and feedback are excellent, and they’ve gone beyond the scope of work. They’ve brought in their point of view and delivered excellent results, which will be the starting point for our company.”
Aldo Guiducci
Scynce
“Their project management is outstanding, always making sure that everything’s clear and participating actively in decision-making processes and delivering great work, extremely fast. Their level of creativity is outstanding and inspiring too!”
Gregory T
Meukow Cognac
“Their creativity and speed were impressive. Passionate Design Agency's ability to transform our ideas into a top-notch product stood out.”
Aaron Ganick
PreddioTech
“They were always quick to respond and proactively offered solutions. Their ability to provide solutions to complex problems sets them apart from other vendors.”
Freda L.
Scoop Solar
“The quality of their work stands out. Passionate always ensure the work is of the highest quality and delivered in a timely manner.”
Qadir Hussain
Primed Pharmacy
WordPress speed optimization service
If your website design is not modern and engaging, you will find it very difficult to convince a visitor to become a prospect (unless your products and services are so cheap that nothing else matters – i.e. you’re a price leader).Â
But even if you have a stunning website design that submerges each visitor into your brand, tells your story and guides them through the process of becoming a client but takes 10 seconds to load, no visitor will hang around long enough to actually see the design. So, how can we find balance without having to spend hours toggling one setting or editing a design element at a time and see what improves the score and what doesn’t?
Design vs Speed
If you have already tried speed optimizing your WordPress website yourself, you have probably come across the suggestions of reducing image size, setting up caching and compressing the website code (which would include reducing the number of plugins, setting a lightweight theme, minifying JS and CSS etc.).
Whilst these do help and can go a long way in improving a WordPress website’s performance, the results can be very mixed, especially if you use Google Page Speed and GT Metrix scores as the benchmark. This is because the design of your website and the techniques or page builders used to build the design also affect the scores. Yet, although both the website speed and score on Google Page Speed Insights matter (if you’re doing search engine optimization for your website), the design also matters! If we think of conversions as the end purpose of the website, then both speed and design are very important, and ideally one shouldn’t come at the expense of the other.
Areas for speed optimization
The length of time it takes for a webpage to load and the Page speed insight or GT Metrix score is directly proportional to the size of the webpage and the speed of delivery.Â
Caching, compression, image optimization and other tactics mentioned above only focus on reducing the size of the webpage, which is why beyond a certain point it is almost impossible to see further improvements without changing the hosting or using a Content Delivery Network (CDN).Â
What’s more, good hosting service and a content delivery network (CDN) have a much more predictable and consistent impact on the site performance to the point that our standard WordPress speed optimization services primarily focus on these two aspects (although we can conduct a one off-site compression as well going through our speed optimization checklist)
WordPress Hosting and content delivery network explained
As you probably know, hosting is basically a virtual “computer” just like your PC, where you can store the website (or other) files. Each virtual machine has an IP that helps identify requests coming to it. And how quickly a browser can connect to the virtual machine through the IP (time to first byte) is directly related to the physical distance between the browser and the server.
In other words, if your hosting server data centre is in London and most of your website visitors are in New York, then every time someone from New York tries to load your site, their request needs to travel across the Atlantic ocean and back (which takes a few seconds). In addition to this, there is also the request processing time, i.e. how quickly your server can come up with the reply to the browser (that still needs to travel to the browser).
Just like a more powerful PC with more RAM and cores can execute more tasks quicker, a better hosting server (e.g. a dedicated virtual private server) will generally result in a faster site compared to a cheaper shared web hosting one. Want to find out more about what good hosting is and what is most suitable for your site? Then head here!
So what does a CDN do? A content delivery network is a network of “computers” around the world, each of which stores a “cached” version of your site. So with the previous example, suppose you also have a CDN in addition to your London server.
When someone in New York goes on your website, instead of the request being sent to the London server from their browser, it will first be sent to the CDN, which will then identify the closest “computer” in the network to New York that has a cache of the website and sends the cached version of the site from there!
The result? The request and, more importantly, the data requested no longer has to travel across the Atlantic ocean every time. In other words, everyone in New York can view all static information on your website (images, texts etc.) very quickly, as if it was hosted in New York!
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Our WordPress speed optimization service
So what does our service entail? Well, it entails a bit of it all. Primarily, we connect your site to our CDN, which is tailor-made for WordPress! And yes, we have tried it all, Cloudflare, Securi and haven’t seen much impact (if your website hosting server is already powerful). Our CDN also tackles the caching for you, so we won’t even install a separate caching plugin on your site.
In other words, once set up, our CDN will constantly be creating compressed and optimized versions of your website and storing them across the network so whoever requests to view your site can be served as quickly as possible.
What can you expect? Every website set up with our CDN consistently hits 85 – 100 on Google PageSpeed Insights for Mobile and 95-100 for desktop.
