There are many ways to help speed up your site and here are some methods we use to speed up our demo sites and we want to share them to you.
Lazy load for post’s featured image
Theme has option to enable lazy load for post’s featured image so it will load images when user scroll through content instead of loading all at once. You can enable this option via Appearance > General > Image > Enable Lazy Image Loading
CSS and Javascript Compression
You can enable CSS and Javascript compression via Theme Setting > Script. This option will compress javascript CSS and javascript file to smaller size.
Caching Plugin
You can use 3rd party plugin to add caching to your WordPress site. It helps speed up response time to your visitors. Here are 2 plugins we recommend.
- W3 Total Cache – Recommend for advanced user with many more options.
- WP Super Cache – Easy to setup caching plugin. Recommend for normal user.
Image Optimise Plugin
Adding images to your content sometime causes site to load slowly. Here is EWWW Image Optimizer it helps optimise and compress your images files size without loosing quality.
NOTE: If you already have image uploaded and install EWWW Image Optimizer. Please run Regenerate Thumbnails plugin so your previous uploaded images are optimised.