2016 is almost at end and we are going to welcome 2017 in next few weeks. If you run a website on WordPress or planning to start one, here are few important points to speed up WordPress sites. These techniques will help you in getting more visitors and creating more conversion. Well, more visitors doesn’t mean more conversion as it depends on other conversion techniques, but the chances of more conversion will be strong. Easy steps to speed up WordPress in 2017
#1 Upgrade to PHP 7
The last stable version of PHP was 5.6 and that is used on most of the servers as the default PHP installation. The latest version i.e. PHP 7 is more than 2X faster than PHP 5.6. There is no PHP 6 so there should not be any confusion. Developers of PHP did a great job with PHP 7 by improving the capability to handle double requests per second as compared to PHP 5.4.
How to Upgrade to PHP 7
First you need to check the current PHP version installed on your hosting server. To do that, open NotePad++ or any other code editor and add the following line in a new file. Save it as .php file and upload in the root directory of your hosting server.
<?php phpinfo(); ?>
Now open that file on browser. It will
Source: https://managewp.org/articles/13866/10-steps-to-speed-up-wordpress-sites-in-2017
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