Website speed affects everything from how well your site ranks in search results to user engagement, bounce rates and conversions. WP Accelerated is a server-level optimisation suite, included in all eukhost WordPress Hosting plans, that automatically improves loading times and performance. In this post, we explain how WP Accelerate speeds up WordPress without the need for plugins.
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The problem with plugin-based performance
Most WordPress users rely on a range of different plugins to improve their website’s speed. You can install plugins for caching, image compression, lazy loading, database clean-up, code minification and more.
While these plugins can help your site run faster, they can also cause issues. Plugin conflicts can stop your site from working correctly, and failing to update them regularly can lead to vulnerabilities that leave your site at risk of cyberattacks. Ironically, the performance boosts these plugins provide can be negated as the additional server resources needed to run them can slow the website down.
Don’t let slow loading affect your website, read: Why Website Speed is Still Vital in 2025
What is WP Accelerated?
In seeking to find a better way to improve site speed, eukhost has developed the WP Accelerated suite of features for our WordPress Hosting plans. This provides website owners with reliable performance improvements, managed directly through their hosting, with no extra cost and with fewer plugins to install, update or troubleshoot.
The key features of WP Accelerated are:
- Static full-page cache
When a user visits one of your web pages, this feature stores the page on their device. This means that when they revisit, the data can be loaded instantly from their cache without WordPress having to generate it from scratch and resend. This reduces the burden on your server and significantly speeds up the page’s loading time. - Mobile optimised cache
With most website visits taking place on smartphones and tablets, mobile caching ensures your pages load quickly on any device. Moreover, it optimises caching specifically for mobile views, which often have different content or layouts from desktop versions. - Image optimisation
Large image files are one of the biggest causes of slow loading times, particularly for sites that are image-heavy, like online stores. WP Accelerated automatically compresses images to formats with a smaller file size, enabling your pages to load faster without affecting image quality. - Code minification
The more data a website sends, the longer it takes to load. Code minification cleans up HTML, CSS and JavaScript files by removing unnecessary characters like spaces and comments. This reduces the size of the file needing to be transmitted and thus speeds up how quickly your pages are transmitted and load. - Lazy loading
If a website tries to load all its images or videos at once, it takes longer for a page to load. Lazy loading only loads them when the user scrolls down the page. This allows the most important content to be displayed quicker, improving user experience and Core Web Vitals scores. - Pre-caching
With pre-caching, a page’s HTML, CSS, JavaScript and images are stored on a user’s device or content delivery network (CDN) before the user requests them. This means they are preloaded and don’t need to be brought from the server. As a result, pages load much faster, making your site feel more responsive. - Database optimisation with cleanup
WordPress databases can get bloated with unnecessary data that makes them sluggish. WP Accelerated optimises and cleans up your database, enabling data to be retrieved faster and more efficiently. This ensures quicker load times, better user experience, and potentially improved search engine rankings. - Cron job optimisation
WordPress uses cron jobs to schedule tasks like publishing posts or sending emails, all of which use server resources. Cron job optimisation ensures these tasks don’t interfere with page loading. This frees up server resources, preventing slowdowns that can happen if the server is handling too many requests at once. - HTTP/2 support
HTTP/2 speeds up loading times by enabling multiple requests to happen simultaneously. It also compresses HTTP headers, proactively sends data in advance and, crucially, prioritises data needed for fast loading and response.
Easier compliance with Core Web Vitals
Google’s Core Web Vitals (CWV) are key ranking criteria that focus on a website’s loading times, responsiveness and visual stability. WP Accelerated helps you meet these standards without needing to install multiple plugins or manually tweak settings. Features like caching, image compression and lazy loading all contribute to higher CWV scores and improved search engine visibility.
For more information, read: How to Optimise Your Website for Core Web Vitals
Powered by high-performance hardware
WP Accelerated is not the only feature of eukhost’s WordPress Hosting that benefits performance. Equally important is the advanced infrastructure on which your website is hosted. This includes:
- SSD or NVMe storage: offering read/write speeds significantly faster than HDDs.
- High-frequency Intel Xeon CPUs: providing exceptional performance and the ability to handle more traffic
- UK-based data centres: ensuring low-latency access for users in the UK.
This combination of hardware and location builds upon the enhancements of WP Accelerated, ensuring your website loads quickly while remaining reliable during peak periods.
Find out how storage choice affects speed, read: How to Choose Between HDD, SSD and NVMe Hosting for Your WordPress Site
Simple WordPress management
Aside from outstanding performance, eukhost’s WordPress Hosting also makes it easier to manage and protect your websites. Using the integrated WordPress Toolkit, you can install, update and manage all your WordPress sites from a single dashboard.
The Toolkit comes with a wide range of helpful features, including one-click cloning, staging environments, automatic patching, smart updates and snapshots, 2-factor authentication, brute force protection, malware scanning and the Imunify360 firewall.
In addition to the Toolkit, plans come with daily backups, free SSLs and 24/7 technical support.
Conclusion
WP Accelerated offers a comprehensive suite of features designed to make WordPress websites load and respond faster without the need to install plugins. At eukhost, this is combined with state-of-the-art, high-performance infrastructure, advanced optimisation features, robust security and an intuitive site-management toolkit that, together, set the standard for WordPress Hosting.
Looking to benefit from WP Accelerated and the rest of our WordPress Hosting features? To find out more, visit our WordPress Hosting page.
