Speed up page loading speed of WordPress blog through wp config file

Page loading speed is not only important for good ranking in Google, but also page loading speed is an important for better conversion rate, reduced bounce rate etc. Also, not every visitor is using a high speed broadband Internet connection, here is where the importance to speed up page loading time is. Previously, we wrote a series of article to speed up the page loading time; this time we will say you an unique method to speed up your WordPress blog. We will just add few lines of codes to the ‘wp-config’ file to speed up.

 

How we can speed up page loading speed of WordPress blog through wp config file?

 

To use this speed up trick, you need to access the root of your WordPress installation to edit the ‘wp-config’ file. Open with any Text Editor (we recommend using gedit). Find out the line:

 

/**

* For developers: WordPress debugging mode.

*

* Change this to true to enable the display of notices during development.

* It is strongly recommended that plugin and theme developers use WP_DEBUG

* in their development environments.

*/

 

Needed codes to speed up page loading speed of WordPress blog

 

Add the following lines of codes after it :

 

define(‘COMPRESS_SCRIPTS’, true);
define(‘COMPRESS_CSS’, true);
define(‘ENFORCE_GZIP’, true);
define(‘WP_POST_REVISIONS’, x);

 

Change x to any integer from 0-9. 0 will mean false. Better to use 2 or 3. Have a look:

 

 

Save the file. This is it.