5 Easy Ways to Speed Up Your WordPress Site

Aside from doing some hefty improvements like switching your web host or implementing Amazon S3 for publishing assets, there are some things you can do that are simple to improve your site’s speed.

Remove your unused CSS designations and compress your CSS file. CSS Drive Gallery has a great CSS compression tool, set it to normal and keep comments. I was able to shave 12% off the size of the file using their tool.
Install the Use Google Libraries plugin if your sites or plugins are utilizing AJAX libraries. WordPress includes these libraries with their default installation but the files are not compressed and extremely bloated. By using this plugin, the compressed file is utilized and typically cached from Google.
Step through your theme files and remove unnecessary spaces and empty lines from your code. Each of those characters takes up space unnecessarily.
See if your hosting company has gzip compression enabled on your account. I found that both of the different hosting companies did not have it enabled. Compression can add additional load on your server, but typically results in overall improvements in page load time. Don’t underestimate compression, take a look at the difference in Google Webmasters when I turned compression on:
Analyze your site further with YSlow plugin for Firefox, Google’s Page Speed Analyzer and Web Page Analyzer. There are some easy methods… such as adding height and width to your embedded images.

There are many more articles at Google on how to improve your site’s performance – be sure to read through the many articles and speed up your site. Your search engine ranking may depend on it!