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We are using Wordpress CMS for our website blog. Currently our YSlow score is (74%). Due to external resources we are facing issue with website speed. I used many plugins (Far Future Expiry Header, Async JavaScript, HTTP/2 Push etc) to optimized and increase website speed. Please help us to know how to solve below asked issues on WordPress website.

1. Add Expires headers
2. Make fewer HTTP requests
3. Reduce DNS lookups
4. Use cookie-free domains

Regards
Anil
#issue #speed #website
  • Profile picture of the author King Manu
    Best upgrade for me was using Cloudflare and total caching on my websites. You basically get a free CDN which makes your website super-fast. And it's free!
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  • Profile picture of the author webcontent
    You may use humming bird plugin for Wordpress as it is good in resolving speed related issues. Let's hope your website speed gets increased soon.
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  • Profile picture of the author ajayvarshan
    Choose your web services carefully, optimize your web server, Reduce Bloat. ...
    Optimize Your Database
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  • Profile picture of the author qservicesinc
    There are so many factors to increase the website speed. Below are some of the factors that affect the speed of your website:
    1. Use of unnecessary and over plugins may lead to decrease website loading speed.
    2. Need to decrease the image sizes and use JPEG format.
    3. Optimize your web server.
    4. Minify the CSS and Jquery files.
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  • Hi, you can do the following things:
    Enable any cache plugin
    Optimize images
    use G zip compression
    add expire header
    Minify JSS & CSS files
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  • Profile picture of the author DominioyHosting
    Use any CDN service.
    Some of them have free plans, for example:
    CloudFlare
    Incapsula
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  • Profile picture of the author medicineman
    Someone already said it but, optimize images to load faster. Cache the CSS files and do not put Javascript files directly in the code, but instead, link to them from your page.

    Use the least amount of plugins. Good luck!
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  • Please follow these tips -
    Invest in Quality Hosting
    Use a lightweight WordPress Theme
    Reduce image sizes
    Optimize Your Plugins
    Perform Regular Database Maintenance
    Stay Updated
    Use a Content Delivery Network (CDN)
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  • Profile picture of the author savidge4
    Originally Posted by AnilTanwarMI View Post

    We are using Wordpress CMS for our website blog. Currently our YSlow score is (74%). Due to external resources we are facing issue with website speed. I used many plugins (Far Future Expiry Header, Async JavaScript, HTTP/2 Push etc) to optimized and increase website speed. Please help us to know how to solve below asked issues on WordPress website.

    1. Add Expires headers
    2. Make fewer HTTP requests
    3. Reduce DNS lookups

    4. Use cookie-free domains

    Regards
    Anil
    For issues 1, 2, and 3 The resolution lies with your Far Future Header plugin and its settings. I personally don't see a reason to use such a plugin to start with. #4 is pretty self explanatory. you are using a hosting provider that uses cookies - and maybe there is a setting to remove those, or you simply need a new host.
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  • Profile picture of the author Divesh Mittal
    There are so many factors to increase website speed.

    Do not use too many unnecessary plugins.

    Minify the CSS and Jquery files

    Need to decrease the image sizes and use JPEG format as per requirement.

    Optimize your web server.

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  • Profile picture of the author mlmsoft
    Remove unused css
    optimize yours image
    Reduce DNS Server
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  • Profile picture of the author cmsminds
    Website speed depends on many aspects. The reason for the slow loading WordPress website can be the framework, website structure, code structure, images, hosting, too much JS or CSS, too many HTTP requests, too many plugins, underperforming servers, etc.

    So, if you have done with caching, HTTP request and DNS lookup, try to check website size, minify CSS and JS, reduce the image sizes and try to upgrade your hosting server to a find a good VPS/Cloud-based hosting server provider who has good hardware and infrastructure to offer great website loading speed.
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  • Profile picture of the author praetserge
    I used Autoptimize and it did a good job as it sped up my website by about 30%.
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  • Profile picture of the author osake
    Without seeing your speed report, I'm assuming it's GT Metrix since you mentioned YSlow, it's hard to say.

    However, many WordPress users don't realize that the more plugins they use the more "bloat" and third-party requests may be happening that you aren't aware of. Whether that's third-party javascript, font files (i.e., Google fonts), or other things.
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  • Profile picture of the author Liam Johnson
    WordPress supports "Lazy Load Optimizer" plugin to speed up the page loading process. This plugin uses "lazysizes" library of GitHub which is an SEO-friendly loader capable of processing iframes and images. It smartly identifies all visibility changes occurred through JavaScript, CSS or manual interactions by the user. This plugin contains some interesting features such as:-
    1. Customizable loading effects
    2. Change-remove of image
    3. Size adjustment in pixels
    4. Setting animation time in milliseconds
    5. Customizable background colors

    You can configure it with any WordPress version of 4.0 or higher. It is a lightweight plugin that smartly fixes "defer offscreen images" error. Download lazysizes.min.js script and embed the library with your web page.
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  • Profile picture of the author Yvon Boulianne
    the real first source of problem with speed is theme that are not well coded, a good theme will make everything easier and after it's all about optimizing
    I usually have less than 1 second results but i have 40 years of coding under my belt...
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  • Profile picture of the author techfan1
    The more plugins you have, the slower your site will be. If you use certain plugins, they themselves may help, but they themselves may also slow down your site. Manual changes to the server, the website itself and images optimization, and hardware upgrades are among a few of the many suggested ways to speed up your website.
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  • Profile picture of the author shanta000
    If you want to do speed optimization on your WordPress website then first of all you need to change your hosting server. And you need to add CDN to your WordPress website. With free CDN you will get good service temporarily but you will not get any service permanently.


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  • Profile picture of the author Thinkfast
    I saw online some plugins for cache .... that can help you to increase your website speed. I used it sometime for our clients who are using wordpress .... Got good response. You can take a look at bloggingwizard. com/free-speed-enhancing-wordpress-plugins/
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  • Profile picture of the author bhavya92
    Use fast and responsive WP themes like Generatepress with Good Catch plugins like W3 Total Cache or WP Rocket
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