Improving Site Speed

  • Hi all,

    I noticed that after the recent WP update, my Site Speed performance went from Excellent to Poor ??

    According to Google test, I now need to improve the following:

    1. Remove unused CSS
    2. Reduce JavaScript execution time
    3. Serve static assets with an efficient cache policy
    4. Eliminate render-blocking resources
    5. Avoid multiple page redirects

    I’m not a developer and so don’t know what steps to take ??

    These plugins are being used on the site.

    Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

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  • Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    We have some general recommendations for you at https://www.ads-software.com/support/article/search-engine-optimization/

    Hi there,

    1.)
    The WP community has a good support article on optimization here:
    https://www.ads-software.com/support/article/optimization/

    2.)
    In the plug-ins you listed, you don’t seem to be using any optimization or cache plug-ins?
    You may want to try them by searching “cache” or “optimize” in the plug-in directory:
    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/

    Thread Starter droyed

    (@droyed)

    Hi @t-p and @stevenlinx

    Thanks for your messages.

    Yes, it has been a bit tricky to figure out which plugins I would need.

    For instance, I previously had a conflict with Jetpack and Smush with image compression. I continued to receive the error despite disabling the Jetpack image compression option and only using Smush.

    Also, In the past 6 months, I followed all the webmaster guidelines and got all my core web vitals in the green (good) zone. But since the latest WP update a month or so ago, the site speed has been atrocious.

    So today, I downloaded and activated W3 Total Cache and WP-Optimize plugins and deactivated Smush and WP DB-manager. I hope all the settings are correct and that this will help the site.

    Because my site did not change much in the past few months, I do not understand how my site speed has gone from being ‘excellent’ to ‘poor’.

    I think another challenge I have faced is to understand and deploy plugins that will help me with multiple issues (cache, lazy load, image compression, minify, etc).

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