Speed Up Your Website Load Time For Free

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{Hello|Hi|Hey} Today i want to show you how i went from this

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To this

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In just 12 minutes and for free and no technical knowledge needed.

First of all, go to https://gtmetrix.com/
and make a test, what matters here is not the score but the fully loaded time.
check the page speed tab
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And expand Optimize images, you will find their things that you need to do, like resizing some images
And you can compress some pictures before upload using https://tinypng.com/

If you did all now go and install this plugin autoptimize

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Activate it then go to settings > autoptimize
Optimize JavaScript Code? check
Optimize CSS Code? check
Optimize HTML Code? check
and save changes

Now install Wp rocket,it's paid plugin and since I said in the title for free then it should be
You can get uptodate version for free from @Festinger service
HAVE] Download Unlimited Premium WordPress Themes and Plugins from Festinger's Vault
He has limited time offer one free month using this coupon FREEMONTH.
Or you can download this version that he posted
[GET] WP Rocket [Pre-activated]

After you activate it go to Settings > Wp rocket

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Since i can't upload more pictures i will attach screen shot links and may a Mod edit it later

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Then save changes and it's all done.
I hope you enjoyed this tuto and i don't mind seeing some before and after result's here
 

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Yes, I'm using autoptimize and it helped a lot with site speed, if I remember correctly it cut loading time by 2 seconds.
 
Thanks for the tut, I was already doing this but using a python script to reduce the image sizes
Before :
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After:
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You could use a python script to resize and give access to it to modify stuff on your server. (Can search on github for one)
Got metrix shows scaled images can I sort it without re uploading them
 
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Quite unsure about gtmetrix but WP Rocket does work. Nice share OP!
 
gtmetrix is showing something and page speed is showing different Screenshot 2019-12-26 at 12.22.24 AM.png
Page speed is 55
 
For SiteGround user, do you think if "WP Rocket" is better than the SiteGround caching plugin?
Thank you.
 
Focus on the time it takes to load, not on some machine-generated scores.
thanks for your suggestion. But how? By the way, I am using shared hosting very soon ll upgrade to the cloud one.
 
@majdi107 - In my testing few months ago, I found wp-rocket by itself had a better result than when it was combined with autoptimize plugin. interested to know if you done any testing to see with or without autoptimize plugin when you are using wp-rocket?

thanks in advance
 
Nice share, it's a must guide if your in seo game
 
For optimize images I suggest Robin image optimizer plugin. U don't need to pay for image optimization like on other plugins
 
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