Core web vitals will be official google ranking signals on May 2021. In this guide, we will show you how to improve your WordPress page speed score.
Before we start, let’s walk through what will slow down a WordPress website. Please take note that a better WordPress hosting environment also contributes to speed. In the test below we did that on the same hosting ( shared hosting ) to give you an accurate comparison.
The hosting specs:
Number Of Processes: max 100
Entry Processes: max 20
Physical Memory Usage: max 1 GB
PostgreSQL Disk Usage : max 1.43 GB
IOPS: max 1024
I/O usage: 5 MB/s
No logo, no menu, zero plugins, no CDN, Singapore datacenter. Just a default WordPress installation with default post.
