How do you speed up WordPress in the cloud?

WordPress has many advantages, but besides this, it has one limitation: it is generally prolonged, and visitors who visit the website have to wait to load pages, which distracts them because nobody wants to stay for so long. Sometimes, they will not revisit the site due to its slow speed. Every company wants its website to respond quickly to users because they want visitors to be convinced that they are not waiting for so long in just one stay. Hence, specific steps must be taken to increase the speed of WordPress, which are as follows:

1. A good host must be chosen: WordPress sites should not be run on shared hosting as it will affect their speed and create traffic; thus, selecting an excellent host is the first requirement to increase the speed.
2. Good framework/theme must be chosen: Frameworks like twenty-ten/twenty-eleven, thesis theme frameworks, SEO abilities, etc., must be used to increase the speed.
3. Catching plugin must be used: Various plugins are available, but plugins like W3 total cache are generally used to improve the speed of loading pages.
4. Bloggers must use CDN: The content delivery network allows visitors to download static files very fast by serving them very close to them.
5. Optimizer must be used- Optimizers generally reduce the image file size; in WordPress, a free plugin, WP SMUSHLT, is available, which optimizes the images automatically when uploading.
6. Optimize homepage: The homepage should be optimized and look clean and focused by removing inactive plugins and widgets and reducing the no. of posts on pages, which will load the homepage fast.
7. Optimize database: This means spam, post drafts, tables, etc., which reduces overhead and thus increases speed.
8. Hotlinking and leeching of content should be disabled: Hotlinking means bandwidth theft; thus, when it occurs, the load on the server is increased to a great extent, which reduces overall speed. Therefore, hot linking and leeching of content should be disabled.
9. Expire header must be added: Adding an expire title to static resources is a way that the clients don’t have to re-fetch any static content like images, javascript, etc., which can cut the load time for regular users.
10. Gravator images must be adjusted: Gravator images should be changed because they contain unnecessary data which load the page very slowly, or you can disable them throughout the site.
11. Lazyload should be added: Adding lazy load means keeping only images seen in the visitor’s browser window, speeding up the page load.
12. PHP must be replaced with static HTML: This step will reduce the page loading time, so it should be done to increase the speed.
13. Cloud fare should be used: With the W3 total cache plugin, the cloud fare must be used to improve the speed and security of the website.

WordPress can be sped up to a certain extent by following the above steps.