A tiny bit of background:
I design sites for myself and for clients. These sites have multiple plugins. Often we have 3rd party systems embedded (Clickfunnels, RightMessage, blah blah blah) for analytics, popups, support, and more…. I often use Divi as the theme, and while I love Divi, it’s kind of bloated.
I was getting desperate when my largest clients were having their sites come to a crawl… Even using the admin section was a nightmare.
Plugin optimizer (with a little bit of setup / trial&error) made the admin side of things load *instantly*. I was shocked! Sites that I dreaded working on, all of a sudden were fun to work on. It was like working on a clean install of WordPress… Because… Come on, do you really need WooCommerce and 90 other plugins to load while you are adding a new plugin, adding a theme, or changing the setting on your SMTP plugin?
On the front end this made sites sing with joy as well… Because those above mentioned 90 plugins do not need to load on the about page, or the contact page, or countless others. They are just needed for specific pages, but.. WP loads them up on *every* page….
So… yeah– if you’re a bit of a plugin slut, like me, and your sites are suffering for it…. Then you need to try this plugin.
It’s still early in its development, so the workflow could be better… but it’s totally worth it…. And I reached out to the developers— They are working very hard to add automation and simplicity to it.
]]>I now build every site with Elementor Pro and their lean Hello theme, which already does a superb job cutting out the fat in unused scripts per page, but LS Cache simply takes things to a whole new level.
First time I score 100% pagespeed and 0.03 sec load abovefold on landingpages and this even with no CDN.
I use a server on UpCloud, LiteSpeed Enterprise plan, CloudFlare and QUIC.cloud for webP and other optimizations. Will give their new CDN a try on a site soon, as it claims to be the only one for full dynamic site caching and serving from the edge, not just the HTML and static files.
Makes my site fly much much faster than on a regular Apache with WP Rocket.
]]>A lot of free services we use adds a huge number of tracking scripts in the background that are slowing our sites.
This plugin does what brave browser does basically.
You can also use Brave to find out the additional scripts to add to this plugin domain blacklist.
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