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WordPress Speed Optimisation

Improve loading times & reduce errors

Website loading speed is vital to customer conversions

You have a website, but it probably isn’t loading quite as fast as it should be, especially on mobile. You might have setup WordPress yourself, or maybe a developer did it for you. Perhaps your WordPress theme was built from scratch, or you might have purchased a template like the popular Aveda, Divi or one of the millions of other themes available. Chances are, you’ve also got a whole bunch of plugins running on your site too.

Do you know what the impact of all these pieces is?

Is your WordPress website taking longer than 3 seconds to load?

If this isn’t something you have ever thought about before, then chances are, your website is taking more than 3 seconds to load.

Why is this important?

Slow loading websites get penalised

You might have noticed a decrease in website traffic, particularly from search. If you run paid ads, you might have seen an increase in your cost per click. Most importantly, you might be losing sales.

Websites that take more than 3 seconds to load have a much higher chance of users bouncing. This could be considered an unintentional penalty since every customer is different. However, search algorithm’s intentionally penalise slow loading websites.

Here’s what Google found:

Google isn’t the only one to study this. 

Unbounce, a platform dedicated to building landing pages, has also done their research and found that 73% of users won’t wait more than 3 seconds before they leave.

Leading SEO figure, Neil Patel, did some research into the impact speed has on search rankings.

Running tests on the first 30 search results for different keywords, he found that the top results loaded significantly faster than those further down.

Multiple speed factors contributed to the overall loading speed, but in each case the fastest sites ranked above their slower counterparts

What's the solution?

Do it yourself

Speeding up your WordPress site will give you a boost in search results, improve your bounce rate and contribute to reducing your advertising costs.

There are tonnes of options available to optimise your website yourself. Plugins, speed tests, and of course dealing with code.

But, chances are, it’s not your area of expertise.

It’s taking you away from the things you do best, like building relationships with your customers and providing them with services they rave about.

Meanwhile, technology is changing and evolving. Is it really practical to keep across all the trends, developments, best practices and ensure your website is constantly optimised and loading as fast is it possibly can?

Get generic help

Some hosting companies include updates and monitor the server performance.

They are typically experienced and know what they are doing because they are doing it for thousands of other customers every day.

This also means that they may not be paying attention to the finer details of your website and business and are more concerned about ensuring your website doesn’t impact their other customers.

These hosting providers can offer you tips, and provide guides on how to get the most speed from your WordPress site on their platform.

Get our help

If you are here, then chances are, you are looking for more specialised support.

We know WordPress and have worked with hundreds, if not thousands, of well-known themes and plugins.

We have optimised stacks of WordPress websites and know how to boost their performance.

We’ve been using WordPress for over 10 years and all of our client websites (and our own site) are built with it.

This means we are in the best position to keep your website running fast

We can do that on a continual basis with one of our WordPress Optimisation Plans, or we can get you started on a good footing by doing a one-time optimisation for you.

What we offer

We’ll do all the nitty gritty things you don’t want to so you can just enjoy being a superhero to your audience. Think of us as the Robin to your Batman.

We will dive into your website and optimise the code, the images, the caching, and the delivery mechanisms to get the most from your server. If your server is letting you down and physically preventing you from reaching your goal speeds, we’ll help you move to one of our recommended WordPress hosts.

The upside

Working with us means your website will continue to drive attention and customers into your business with lightning-fast loading speeds at a fraction of the time and cost it would take to do it yourself.

If you choose an ongoing plan, it will be actively monitored and regularly tweaked to ensure you are always getting the fastest loading speeds.

Social proof

We have optimised stacks of WordPress websites all over Australia and other parts of the world.

Check out some of them below:

We need to know more about you

To be completely honest, we are only really interested in working with clients who understand the value that their website loading speed brings to their business. So, we have made our website optimisation plans available by application only.

Please review our plans below and use the form at the end of this page to see if you qualify.

Our service is designed to offer you peace of mind and the assurance that you have a skilled partner on your team who can help you achieve your online objectives.

Silver - Once-Off Investment: $559

Our Silver optimisation plan is perfect if you just need your website optimised so you can work from a great foundation. You’ll take care of things yourself after we get everything done for you.

Includes the following:

  • Website speed analysis.
  • Image optimisation across your entire site (including theme and plugin added images).
  • Code optimisation and minification of your WordPress HTML, CSS and JavaScript files.
  • Caching setup and configuration for optimal performance with server level caching available on your web host.
  • Configuring background processes (eg wp-cron and WordPres Heartbeat) to reduce server load and improve performance for your visitors.
  • Configuration of your WordPress website to use a CDN if you choose to use one (added cost for the CDN, varies by provider).

Gold - Initial Investment: $739, Ongoing Investment: $229/mo

Our Gold plan is perfect if you are adding new content to your website or implementing new features and functionality on a regular basis.

Includes all of the Silver benefits plus:

  • Ongoing website speed tracking.
  • Uptime monitoring.
  • AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) configuration.
  • Monthly reviews and optimisation tweaks to ensure performance goals are continually met.

Notes

Some optimisation techniques may be unavailable on certain websites with certain themes or plugins or on certain web hosts.

We don’t include a CDN, we configure yours for you. It is up to you to pay for your CDN separately.

There is no contract for any of these plans and you are free to cancel any time. These plans are offered on a once-off and subscription basis and need to be paid monthly in advance.

All prices are in Australian dollars (AUD).

Silver

$ 559 once-off
  • Website speed analysis
  • Comprehensive image optimisation
  • Code optimisation & minification
  • Cache optimisation
  • Background process optimisation
  • CDN configuration

Gold

$ 729 once-off + $229/month
  • Ongoing website speed analysis
  • Ongoing comprehensive image optimisation
  • Ongoing code optimisation & minification
  • Ongoing cache optimisation
  • Ongoing background process optimisation
  • CDN configuration
  • Uptime monitoring
  • AMP configuration

Application

Use the form below to apply for one of our WordPress website optimisation plans and we’ll get in touch to see if we’re a good fit.

We are looking forward to working with you!

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