If you want your website to rank higher in Google and other SERPs, you will need to make sure that your website runs as fast as possible. The website speed and performance is one of the key factors when it comes to the website ranking in search engines.

Each and every WordPress theme will definitely make your website looks nice and functional, but in order to improve performance, you’ll need a tool or plugin that will minify CSS and JS files. Then combine them and move above the fold so that your website passes Google PageSpeed test with higher score.