This document provides tips to make a website 5 times faster in 10 minutes. It recommends updating PHP to the most recent version, enabling opcode caching, increasing PHP's memory limit, enabling HTTPS/HTTP2 support, and installing plugins like Autoptimize, WP Fastest Cache, EWWW Image Optimizer, and Jetpack Lazy Load to optimize assets, cache pages, optimize images, and lazy load images. Implementing these server configuration changes and plugins can significantly improve site performance by reducing processing, HTTP requests, file sizes, and loading times.

1. How to make
your site 5
times faster in
10 minutes
Gal Baras
Get Business Online Consulting
How to make
your site 5
times faster in
10 minutes

2.  Server settings
◦ PHP version
◦ PHP modules
◦ PHP settings
◦ HTTPS/SSL + HTTP/2 support
 WordPress plugins
◦ Autoptimize
◦ WP Fastest Cache
◦ EWWW Image Optimizer
◦ Jetpack Lazy Load
Overview

3. Switch to the most recent stable release of PHP.
Pros:
 Faster – PHP 7 is ~11% faster than PHP 5
 Lower memory consumption – PHP 7 uses ~24% less
memory
 Better security
 Lower hosting costs
Cons:
 Backward incompatibility
PHP Version

4. Turn on Opcode Caching (opcache). This saves
compiled code and reuses it.
Pros:
 Faster – 3 times faster, in my experience
 Far lower resource consumption
Cons:
 Outdated code execution
(super rare)
PHP Modules

6. Give PHP enough memory to use. Set memory_limit to
at least 256MB
Pros:
 Fewer (no) failures and retries
Cons:
 Limit on concurrent processes (depends on hosting)
PHP Settings

7. With hosting providers now offering free SSL certificates, this
is a no-brainer. HTTPS enabled HTTP/2 by default.
Pros:
 Parallel HTTP requests
 HTTP header compression
 Predictive serving of resources
Cons:
 None. Old browsers fall back
on HTTP/1.1
HTTPS/SSL + HTTP/2

8. Combines CSS and JS resources (even inline). Minifies CSS, JS and
HTML.
Pros:
 Fewer HTTP requests
 Smaller HTTP requests
Cons:
 Additional processing
 Outdated resources
 Resource combination limits parallel requests – using HTTP/2 is
better
 Minification issues (rare)
Autoptimize

9. Serves static pages. Turns on compression and cache control.
Pros:
 Significantly reduced processing
 Fewer HTTP requests
 Smaller HTTP requests
Cons:
 Requires processing
 Resource combination limits parallel requests – using HTTP/2 is
better
Wp Fastest Cache

10. Resizes and compresses images.
Pros:
 Smaller images
 Faster image loading times
Cons:
 Lower image display quality
 WEBP compatibility issues when caching
 Premium extra compression costs
EWWW Image Optimizer

11. Loads images via JavaScript as they enter the viewport.
Pros:
 Faster perceived page load
 Lower bandwidth consumption
Cons:
 Can break responsive layouts (WooCommerce product
gallery)
 Incompatible with EWWW JS serving of WEBP images
 Possible SEO issue
Jetpack Lazy Load

12. Questions?

13. How to make
your site 5
times faster
in 10 minutes
Gal Baras
gal@get-business-online.com