Is your website moving slowly? Here are some Tips, WordPress Plugins and other Web tools to help your website move faster and perform better.

1. Site Speed & Performance
Tools, Plugins andTips

2. SoYour Site Is Crawling
Where to start?
MAKE A BACKUP BEFOREYOU START

3. Test and Understand
Tools for testing
• Google Site Speed (PageSpeed Insights):
https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/
• Pingdom: https://tools.pingdom.com/
• WebPageTest: https://www.webpagetest.org/
• GTmetrix: https://gtmetrix.com/
Pick One and Stick to it

4. What do I do now?

5. CallYou Hosting Provider!
After test again…

6. The Fix
Optimize Images
Minify & Combine HTML, CSS & JavaScript
Enable Compression
Cache
Optimize Database
CDN

7. Caching Plugin
W3Total Cache
• More Popular
• Have Premium option
• Minify files
WP Super Cache
• Less options
• Free
• Built by the people ofWordPress (Automatic)

8. Optimize Images
• WP Smush Plugin
• EWWW Image Optimizer
• Imagify
• * ImageOptim Desktop App
Save for Web

9. Minify & Combine
HTML, CSS and JavaScript
• Minit Plugin
• Autoptimize Plugin

10. Optimize Database
• WP Optimize Plugin
• WP-DB Manager Plugin

11. CDN (Content Delivery Network)
• Cloudflare
• MaxCDN
**PageSpeed Insights score may lower, CDN can add Javascript giving wrong
info to PageSpeed Insights

12. OtherTips for Speed
• Keep your theme simple
• Read through Comments and Reviews
• Ask the theme developer about the demo setup
• Optimize Homepage
• Publish Excerpts
• Display at a minimum
• Plugins Cleanup
• Delete unused plugins
• P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler)

13. My Basic Setup
• WP Super Cache
• Autoptimize
• BJ Lazy Load (Also Lazy Load forVideos)
• AMP
• JetPack (Writing>Media>Speed up images and photos)
• * Remove Query Strings From Static Resources Plugin
WordPress Plugins

14. For the Developers
• PHP7
• NGINX

15. Questions?
Backup your website and give it a try.