{"id":2861,"date":"2016-03-29T06:00:15","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T13:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webhostingcat.com\/?p=2861"},"modified":"2017-05-25T10:46:11","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T17:46:11","slug":"wp-engine-speed-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webhostingcat.com\/wp-engine-speed-test\/","title":{"rendered":"WP Engine Speed Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/webhostingcat.com\/WPEngineSpeedTest\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/webhostingcat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/WP-Engine-Speed-Test-Results-Link.png\" alt=\"WP Engine Website Speed Test\" width=\"700\" height=\"346\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2862\" srcset=\"https:\/\/webhostingcat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/WP-Engine-Speed-Test-Results-Link.png 700w, https:\/\/webhostingcat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/WP-Engine-Speed-Test-Results-Link-300x148.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Website speed is extremely important for a couple of reasons.  First, you certainly want to keep your audience engaged and not frustrated&#8211;waiting for your web pages to load.  Second, most (if not all) of the experts say that website speed definitely plays a part in search engine rankings.  So, it makes sense that you should constantly check your website speed to see if there can be improvements made.  Fortunately, it\u2019s very easy to test out your site using a number of free tools available online.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/webhostingcat.com\/WPEngineSpeedTest\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5159\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/webhostingcat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/WPEngine-Speed-Test.png\" alt=\"WPEngine Speed Test\" width=\"600\" height=\"316\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/webhostingcat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/WPEngine-Speed-Test.png 600w, https:\/\/webhostingcat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/WPEngine-Speed-Test-300x158.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nOne of the great free resources available to you is from hosting company <strong>WP Engine<\/strong>. All you need to do is enter the URL of your site along with your email address and contact info, and you\u2019ll be sent a link with your test results. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/webhostingcat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/WP-Engine-Speed-Test-Success.png\" alt=\"WP Engine Speed Test Success\" width=\"650\" height=\"215\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/webhostingcat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/WP-Engine-Speed-Test-Success.png 650w, https:\/\/webhostingcat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/WP-Engine-Speed-Test-Success-300x99.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><br \/>\nWhen you access your test results, you\u2019ll see your website\u2019s Load and Render times along with a series of tips you can implement to improve your site\u2019s speed.  Some of these suggestions may include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Put CSS before Blocking JS<\/li>\n<li>Make Static Resources Browser-Cacheable<\/li>\n<li>Use SSL<\/li>\n<li>Avoid Font Overload<\/li>\n<li>Use WOFF2 Font Format<\/li>\n<li>Reduce Number of DOM Elements<\/li>\n<li>Improve DNS Lookup Times<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Click Below to Test Out Your WordPress Website\u2019s Speed<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/webhostingcat.com\/WPEngineSpeedTest\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5161\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/webhostingcat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/WP-Engine-Speed-Test-Ready.png\" alt=\"WP Engine Speed Test Ready\" width=\"500\" height=\"368\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/webhostingcat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/WP-Engine-Speed-Test-Ready.png 500w, https:\/\/webhostingcat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/WP-Engine-Speed-Test-Ready-300x221.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another excellent free tool you can access online to check your website speed is at pingdom.com.  When you enter your site URL on their test page, you can see not only how your site performs, but also how well it stacks up against all other sites tested by Pingdom.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/tools.pingdom.com\/fpt\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/webhostingcat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Pingdom-Test-Results-Web-Hosting-Cat.png\" alt=\"Pingdom Test Results Web Hosting Cat\" width=\"613\" height=\"217\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2866\" srcset=\"https:\/\/webhostingcat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Pingdom-Test-Results-Web-Hosting-Cat.png 613w, https:\/\/webhostingcat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Pingdom-Test-Results-Web-Hosting-Cat-300x106.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 613px) 100vw, 613px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/webhostingcat.com\/WPEngine\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/webhostingcat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/WP-Engine-Discount.jpg\" alt=\"WP Engine Discount\" width=\"345\" height=\"289\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/webhostingcat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/WP-Engine-Discount.jpg 345w, https:\/\/webhostingcat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/WP-Engine-Discount-300x251.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 345px) 100vw, 345px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website speed is extremely important for a couple of reasons. First, you certainly want to keep your audience engaged and not frustrated&#8211;waiting for your web pages to load. Second, most (if not all) of the experts say that website speed definitely plays a part in search engine rankings. So, it makes sense that you should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,23,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buying-web-hosting","category-web-hosting-tools","category-wp-engine"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostingcat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostingcat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostingcat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostingcat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostingcat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webhostingcat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostingcat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostingcat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostingcat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostingcat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}