Tips

Site speed

Simple tips to make your site faster for better user experience 🏎️

1. Optimizing images ✍️

Many times, uploaded images are;

  • Too large (keep image sizes below 200kb where possible)
  • Not fit for purpose (wrong dimensions, file types)

🔍 pagespeed.web.dev will give you information about images that need optimizing as well as a whole host of other things

🤏 TinyPNG to compress images before uploading them to your website

2. Caching 🗃️

If you use WordPress or another similar content management system, then you can install caching plugins. Otherwise, check out what options you have available on your web servers control panel or speak to your provider.

🚀 WP Rocket is probably the best paid-for WordPress caching plugin.

⚡ For a free alternative, check out LiteSpeed Cache

3. Change hosting 💻

Sometimes simply moving your website to a better hosting provider will improve site speed. For cheap, fast hosting look at the following:


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