Your visitors expect significantly faster loading times, and your WordPress site needs to live up to those expectations.

Search Engine Land has published a comprehensive article featuring 8 steps to optimize your WordPress site for SEO.

The SEL team says, “One of the most prevalent concerns with a part of the WordPress community is the Content Management System’s (CMS) speed.

While new integrations are being added to WordPress core, the good news is that many of the lightning-fast websites run WordPress as their CMS, and if you are struggling with yours it could be easily fixed with the following tips.

1. Test your site speed often

The first step to improving your website’s speed is to test it to see what can be improved.

There are hundreds of tests to choose from online when checking performance, however, we will focus on Google Web Core Vitals and Lighthouse Reports.

Google Core Web Vitals

Initiated by Google, Core Web Vitals is one of the most important sites for speed tests on the internet currently, giving you information on the different fields that affect your website.”

8 simple steps to optimize your WordPress site for SEO

Search Engine Land

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