Make your WordPress Load Faster with Cloudflare

Overview

Cloudflare is a prominent content delivery network and security service that significantly improves WordPress site performance and security. In this article, we'll walk you through the steps to set up Cloudflare on your WordPress site, enhancing your user experience, brick-and-mortar business reach, ranking performance, and overall online presence.

Setting Up Cloudflare

Step 1: Sign up for a free Cloudflare account, here, and add your website.

Step 2: Change your name servers at your domain registrar to the ones provided by Cloudflare.

Step 3: Create an Cloudflare account and log in. Your website is now listed, and you can begin configuring settings.

Caching Depth

In your Caching tab, select Page Rules and create a rule to cache your entire site, allowing static assets and bypassing cache for dynamic pages.

// Your sites WWW subdomain
// Cache Level: Level 2
// Bypass Cache: /wp-admin/*

Minification

In the Speed tab, enable RocketLoader for automatic minification of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files.

Image Optimization

Auto Minify in Speed tab will reduce the size of your website's images, as will setting the desired image dimensions precisely when uploading them to your site.

SQL Query Optimization

Install Cloudflare Query Optimizer or another SQL query optimizing plugin to minimize database requests and optimize database performance.

Use the Cloudflare Nameservers

Set your nameservers to the ones provided by Cloudflare in your domain registrar's DNS settings.

Conclusion

With these steps, you have effectively integrated Cloudflare with your WordPress site to minimize page load times, improve SEO rankings, and enhance security. Remember, a fast and optimized website can significantly impact user experience and online success.

Join the thousands of websites benefiting from these optimizations, and start growing your online reach today!