Tohidul Pappu
WordPress is the most popular and best CMS in the World. 43.3% of websites are run by WordPress. You can create any type of website using WordPress. but some people are confused and want to make sure that the WordPress website can handle high-traffic websites or not. Before I answer, you need to know about the High Traffic.
High traffic means a lot of users visiting your website. But how many? We can’t say any specific amount of visitors in terms of high traffic. But If your website gets a minimum of 5000 visitors at the same time, then your website is a high-traffic website.
The top 50 biggest brands that use WordPress and the websites are high-traffic WordPress websites.
Now, I can say that, Yes, WordPress can handle high-traffic websites. But it’s not like that you are created a website and the website gets a lot of visitors and your website working perfectly. There are some important points that you need to focus on for a high-traffic website.
Let’s talk about the problems that can cause issues in handling your high-traffic WordPress website and how we can solve the problem and optimize our website to run smoothly for high traffic.
Hosting is the primary and most important thing for the website’s performance. If you want to choose hosting for your high-traffic website then you have to choose the best hosting plan from the best hosting providers. But most of the time, we bought the cheapest hosting plan from an unknown hosting provider. You can buy the cheapest hosting if your website is just a basic information website. But for high-traffic websites, a lot of visitors will come in at the same time and if your website is not working then your business will be destroyed. So Hosting is very important for website performance. Every popular hosting provider has 3 to 4 plans where you can see the details and you can understand how many visitors can easily use your website. There is shared hosting, managed WordPress hosting, VPS hosting, Dedicated Server hosting and also Cloud hosting. Most of people try to use shared hosting or managed WordPress hosting basic plan and that’s really bad for your website visitors. Even they don’t use the best plan from shared hosting. Shared hosting is not good for high-traffic websites.
Another mistake we make when we choose a theme. We choose a random theme or choose a free theme that is basically not good. But some free popular themes are really great like Astra and OceanWP. Even if you use a Premium theme still there is a chance to choose a bad theme. All premium themes are not good for website performance and speed. So you need to find out the best popular theme that gives your website better performance. But we always forget and buy a premium theme that is not best for our website performance. Even some of the premium themes have so many major issues that without an expert you can’t find out. And the issues are really harmful to your website. So wrong theme is another mistake in our journey.
After creating a website, most people forget to optimize their website. You have to optimize your website even if your website is not for high traffic. In the optimization process, you have to optimize the website code and website images that will make your website fast. Also, you should not use unnecessary plugins on the website. Use a cache plugin like W3 Total Cache for speed optimization. Without optimization, if you test your website you will see that your website is very slow. Test using Google Page Speed or GTmetrix. So Optimizing the website is another important thing that we forget to do.
In your website, If you use a lot of plugins, it will affect your website performance. Sometimes, one plugin conflicts with another plugin and your website will not work and get some big issues for that. We use unnecessary and unsecured plugins on the website that is very harmful to your website performance. Like a Theme, a plugin is another important thing that is important for your website. But we just create the website and the website might be amazing but in the backend it’s totally garbage. So, use secured plugins and try to use a few plugins if you really need a plugin then you can use the plugin.
CDN is very important for the speed of your website. CDN copies your website files on different servers around the world. When someone visits your website CDN provides the files from the nearest server. That helps visitors to get your website fast. But most of the people don’t have any idea what CDN is. Now, hosting providers also give CDN in the hosting plan because they know how much importance that is. In the market, there are a lot of websites that provide CDN services.
There are so many reasons I explain the primary reasons and in the primary reasons, I also explain some of the small reasons as well. Now, We will talk about how we can make your WordPress website eligible for running high traffic smoothly.
Hosting is the most important thing for the website. The website performance is defended on the hosting server. Even If you do anything for the performance without good hosting, remember, that your website will not be optimized for high-traffic. So, you have to choose the right hosting for your website.
If you don’t have enough budget then I recommend Hostinger for your website and if you have a budget then go with WPX.
| Types of Hosting | Best of high-traffic? |
|---|---|
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Shared Hosting |
NO |
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Managed WordPress Hosting |
Yes (Included targeted traffic in the plan)
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Dedicated Servers |
Yes (if enough server resources are available)
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VPS(Virtual Private Servers) |
Yes (if enough server resources are available) |
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Cloud Hosting |
Yes for any level of traffic ( do doubt)
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Choosing the best WordPress theme is not just for the website design, features, and functionality. It also used for website performance. The website performance also defends what theme you are using. Sometimes, the website can be slow for your theme but people say WordPress is slow. WordPress is fast but if you use the wrong theme then your website will be slow. A lot of themes look amazing but in behind of the theme, it’s a totally unused theme if you focus on website performance. Use a fast and lightweight theme. Focus on the performance. You can design your website using a page builder and add important functionality using the best plugin.
A caching plugin is the most important thing for website speed for visitors. When visitors come to your website, WordPress sends a query to the database to get the data, compile it, and build your page and then the visitor can see it. Sometimes it can take time if a lot of visitors come to your website at a time. For that reason, you should use a cache plugin.
The cache plugin will help to create a static HTML copy of your website pages and provide it to visitors instead of querying the database and rebuilding the pages on every single visit.
There are so many popular cache plugins like W3 Total Cache, and Lightspeed cache. But I recommend you to use WP Rocket which helps with everything about website performance optimization. You can easily set up and optimize your website using WP Rocket. Other plugins are also good. But this is my personal recommendation.
The great way to optimize your website for high-traffic websites using CDN. CDN helps to optimize your website globally. CDN stores the website file’s static copies on many different servers globally. So when someone visits your website anywhere in the world, CDN serves the static files from the nearest server. That way your website will be fast for every user who lives in different places in the world.
Recommended CDN service providers are Cloudflare, StackPath, and Google Cloud CDN.
You can start to explore with the free version, CDN service providers also help for the website security.
Website images are an important part of any website. It can make your website perfect but also it can destroy your website performance if you do not optimize your images. When someone visits your website, the browser downloads your images. If your image size is big then it will take longer that will affect your website performance. The website will be slow. Visitors will not like that.
If you start your new website then optimize image size first then upload on your website. There are some popular online image optimization websites that give you optimized images without losing quality.
Recommended websites are TinyPng and Imagecompressor.
Also, you can upload your images on the website and use the best plugins that will help to optimize your images automatically without losing quality. Recommended Best image optimization plugins are Smush and Imagify.
So, I hope you will understand the confident to use WordPress for high-traffic websites. If you follow what I said, definitely your website will not get any issues with high traffic. Millions of users can easily explore your website fastly. If you have any questions, please comment below. Thank you.
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