Website Speed From 52 to 92 In 5 Freakin Minutes!

Initial Stats

The initial website performance score for mobile and desktop was 52 and 81 (checked with Google PageSpeed Insights).

We needed a quick fix for this issue, here’s what we did.

The Real Game

1. Firstly, we minified CSS and JS using WP Rocket Plugin, Minifcaiton speeds up the loading of a webpage, helping improve the overall website experience.

2. Secondly, we disabled WordPress Dashicons and Feed URLs. This also helped our website to load faster.

3. Enabled Script manager using the Perfmatters Plugin and disabled some scripts from the Home Page to load and execute.

4. Enabled Lazy Loading and excluded the first 4 images from being lazy loaded so it will not break the design in the first contact.

5. I implemented a JavaScript execution delay of 7 seconds to speed up my WordPress website.

6. Lastly, enabled preload cache.

Outro

All the above steps took us 5 minutes and the website performance score now on mobile and desktop is 92 and 99.