Your blog’s hosting plan can make a

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Your blog’s hosting plan can make a big difference regarding the load time of your pages and posts. It may be tempting to pick from the absolute cheapest hosting plans when you’re just starting on a tight budget—and that’s ok for a while—but they often aren’t the best choice as your blog grows in time. You’ll want to upgrade to one of these managed WordPress hosting plans once your budget permits.

You can learn a lot more about hosting from my guide to shared hosting and in my Q&A azerbaijan phone number material how much does web hosting cost?—but when it comes to hosting recommendations, my top three are:

Dreamhost (and their fast $2.59/mo plan)
Bluehost (and their quick $3.99/mo choice plus plan)
SiteGround (and their GrowBig $4.99/mo plan)
All three of these recommendations perform well on independent speed tests, but Dreamhost usually tests the fastest in terms of average page load speed (and they’re the most budget-friendly too). Each of these hosting companies offer affordable plans for bloggers, packed with a lot of features so you can’t go wrong when signing up with one—and I’ve used all three over the years.

Choose a More Minimalist Blog Layout (or WordPress Theme)
One of the reasons I keep my own blog layout and design so simple is to reduce the page load time it takes for readers to load my content.

You may not want to keep things quite as minimalist as I do here, but you can help your blog layout a lot in load speed by choosing a WordPress theme that won’t slow your site down much.

The three WordPress themes I recommend that run very quickly and have only a light amount of code loading in their default settings include:

GeneratePress Pro WordPress Theme: I now use a customized version of this ultra-fast, lightweight theme here on my blog today (it’s what I redesigned my website with), and they offer a free version to start with.
Astra WordPress Theme: This great (also free) theme is just about as minimalist and quick as GeneratePress and also has a Pro version you can eventually upgrade to once you need additional functionality.
Elementor Page Builder: If you want a WordPress theme with a visual page builder (which I used for many years), the only one worth considering today—from a page load speed perspective—is Elementor and their Hello Theme, which pairs very nicely with it.
Installing the Best WordPress Performance Plugins
Even after choosing a lightweight WordPress theme to power your blog, you can get a lot of extra speed and optimization gains out of installing the right performance plugins. Unfortunately, you’ll have to buy a performance plugin for your blog, as there just aren’t any truly beneficial free options out there (that don’t have drawbacks outweighing their benefits).

I use both of these performance plugins on my blog today, and they’re all you’ll need:

Perfmatters ($24.95/year): This is by far my favorite performance plugin because it’s been built specifically with the overarching goal of being as lightweight, fast, and intuitive as possible. To that end, they’ve done an excellent job. After installing it here on my blog and using their default configurations, I saw an immediate speed boost in my page load times—and there’s a lot you can tinker with to get more gains. Plus, they offer a 30-day money-back guarantee if you decide the plugin isn’t impacting your speed as much as you’d hoped.
WP Rocket ($59/year): As a nice complement to Perfmatters, WP Rocket comes into play as a great caching tool (which creates much faster load times) and does a fantastic job of optimizing and reducing the weight of the HTML, CSS, and JS files your blog loads each time a reader hits a page. WP Rocket also offers a no-questions-asked money-back guarantee—just be sure to reach out within 14 days of your purchase if things aren’t going according to plan, and they’ll refund you.
There are a lot more things you can do to slim down your blog layout’s page load time (the subject for a later date), but putting these simple best practices and tools into place—is a great foundation. Keep these kinds of factors in mind, too, if you’re considering buying a blog that’s already been around the block.