Make Your WordPress Site Super Fast Without Breaking It

Best Practices for Load Time Optimization

1. Put Scripts in the Footer
2. Keep Everything Up To Date
3. Use a speed-optimized WordPress Theme
4. Disable Pingbacks & Trackbacks
5. Limit Post Revisions dene( ‘WP_POST_REVISIONS’, 4 );
6. Limit Comments Per Page
7. Clean up your database: WP-OptimizeUse CSS Sprites if relevant (create them with SpriteMe)
8. Use Font Icon Libraries such as Font Awesome instead of images for icons
9. Use a Content Delivery Network
10. Load All Stylesheets in the Head Before scripts where possible
11. Localize External Files Whenever Practical
12. Don’t Rely on Slow Third Parties
13. Use JPG’s Instead of PNG’s when appropriate
14. Ensure Elements Load Only When In UseDisable or Delete Unused Plugins
15. Remove Unused Images Referenced via Stylesheets
16. Remove Unused Stylesheets & Scripts
17. Use SVGs when appropriate
18. Use A Fast WordPress Web Host (e.g. Kinsta)
19. Use Fast DNS (Route 53, DNS Made Easy, Cloudare, Namecheap PremiumDNS, etc.)
20. Load Google Analytics and all other tags in use with Google Tag Manager
21. Install / Enable AMP and Accelerated Mobile Pages
22. Install / Enable Imagify
23. BulkOptimize all of your images
24. Enable gzip compression
25. Install / Enable Autoptimize / Go to Autoptimize > Settings and enable HTML, JavaScript and CSScode optimization. Then Save Changes and Empty Cache
26. Enable Caching Plugin

Tools:

• https://testmysite.thinkwithgoogle.com/
• https://tools.pingdom.com/
• https://gtmetrix.com/
• https://loadimpact.com/
• https://pagespeed.web.dev/