We have already covered how to optimize your site\u2019s overall loading speed<\/a> in a previous article so in this tutorial we are going to focus on increasing your site\u2019s mobile speed. Kindly implement the steps listed in both articles for optimum site speed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n A WordPress website can appear slow on mobile because of the causes listed below. You will notice that some of the causes are mobile-specific, while others are common causes that also apply to the desktop version of your site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now that you have some idea of the causes, let’s proceed with steps to fix the issue and increase your site speed on mobile.<\/p>\n\n\n In this section, you will learn how to increase WordPress website speed in mobile in just about seven steps. Those are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Let\u2019s take a deeper dive into each solution and learn how they help increase your site speed on mobile. \ud83c\udfc3<\/p>\n\n\n Choosing a fast hosting provider is often one of the best solutions for how to increase WordPress website speed in mobile devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can carry out any of the solutions listed below this section, and still record terrible mobile speed if your hosting server is not up to the mark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So the first step is to determine whether the slow site speed is caused by poor hosting server performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n One way to check this is using a speed test tool<\/a> to test your site’s server response time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Or, if you’d rather we did the work for you, you can just read our posts on the subject.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We have tested dozens of hosting services and published in-depth reviews on almost all popular providers. You should be able to find your hosting provider in the following articles and figure out whether you should continue using their service:<\/p>\n\n\n\n After reading the reviews, if you decide to switch to a better hosting provider, then take a look at our article on the fastest website hosting services<\/a>. It covers eight different hosting companies equipped with technologies that will help you increase your site\u2019s mobile speed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Also, consider switching to a hosting solution dedicated to your website type. For instance, WooCommerce sites are larger and usually require more processing power, so migrating to a dedicated WooCommerce hosting plan<\/a> is a better idea.<\/p>\n\n\n People who visit your site are using mobile devices of varying sizes, operating systems, and manufacturers. Your website should be designed to respond to every mobile device.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Usually, it\u2019s the WordPress theme\u2019s job to offer a responsive design<\/a>. This is why you need to select a theme carefully. There may be hundreds of thousands of themes to choose from, but not every theme is responsive and ready for mobile viewing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To help users build faster websites on mobile, we created a lightweight theme called Neve.<\/p>\n\n\n Neve\u2019s responsive design ensures that your posts and pages adapt to a visitor’s screen size and device, making your content accessible to everyone. It also ranks among the top three fastest themes for WordPress websites<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \ud83d\udca1 Learn more about Neve<\/a> and give it a try.<\/p>\n\n\n Images are one of the top three things responsible for slowing your website down on mobile. They take up a lot of space on your server and it takes a while to download them on a browser. <\/p>\n\n\n\n That means optimizing your site’s images is another one of the best solutions for how to increase WordPress website speed in mobile devices. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Luckily there are a couple of things you can do to reduce the negative impact of images on your site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you want to optimize all of this, you can use the Optimole plugin. Not only will Optimole compress, resize, and convert your images to the optimal format, but it can also dynamically serve optimized images via its CDN.<\/p>\n\n\nWhy is your WordPress site slow on mobile?<\/h2>\n\n\n
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