How to speed up your site using plugins

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.

IMPORTANT: If you already have image uploaded and install EWWW Image Optimizer. Please run Regenerate Thumbnails plugin so your previous uploaded images are optimised.

Recommended Image Size

For better loading speed without loosing image quality. We recommend uploaded image dimension no larger than 1440×900 px.

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.

  1. W3 Total Cache – Recommend for advanced user with many more options.
  2. WP Super Cache – Easy to setup caching plugin. Recommend for normal user.

Leverage Browser Caching

Setting an expiry date or a maximum age for static resources ex. images to instructs the browser to load previously downloaded resources from local disk rather than over the network. To do this simply add cache-control headers to origin server by adding the following code to server .htaccess file.

<filesMatch ".(ico|pdf|flv|jpg|svg|jpeg|png|gif|js|css|swf)$">
 Header set Cache-Control "max-age=84600, public"

Enable Compression

You can enable compression by adding the following to server .htaccess file.

  # Compress HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Text, XML and fonts
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/vnd.ms-fontobject
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-opentype
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-otf
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-truetype
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-ttf
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/opentype
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/otf
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/ttf
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/svg+xml
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/x-icon
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/javascript
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml

  # Remove browser bugs (only needed for really old browsers)
  BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
  BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip
  BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
  Header append Vary User-Agent
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