How to make your site load like a Rocket

RoiBox said:

I know, It was a fun post. I use Rocket.net and RunCloud/Vultr HF for my clients.

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ranga said:

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you can make it faster by using DNS preconnect or prefetch on cnd.shortpixel in perfmatters and delaying analytics

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RoiBox said:

..... Read my forum profile´s about me page, and you will see what I do for a living .. =)

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fb3003 said:

Steal hot ladies with your optimization skills?!

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vldsam95 said:

how do you use Cloudflare DNS?

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ranga said:

This is for my home page which has lots of images

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Jeff Vh said:

You should look into Tinypng. On Average it shrinks images with 70-80%, while keeping its quality. This is great for rendering speed.

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ranga said:

Hi,

I am not a Wordpress developer or expert, just a fellow black hatter trying to speed up my site. With the new Google Page Experience update coming its more and more important for the site to be ultra fast.

This is how I achieved this

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Pagespeed Insights

Desktop

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Mobile

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This is for my home page which has lots of images and elementor stuff and also elementor epic news elements. There are few more things I can optimise to improve it even further, but I am ok with having a slowish site then have a bad user experience.

This is my own experience and trying to get the speed up without being too technical and how I achieved that step by step

Stop using Shared Hosting

With new and easy cloud hosting solutions, stop using shared hosting for your sites. You will have some issues adapting to new interfaces but if it means faster site, so be it.

This site is hosted on Vultr $5 droplet with Runcloud, if you want more support can go with cloudways, if you have multiple sites can look at gridplane for good support. I have only used runcloud, its plan with unlimited servers is around $15 pm.

These are the steps in short what I did to achieve such speeds

1. Cloudflare DNS (I only use DNS and not their CDN)
2. Runcloud + Vultr $5 Droplet (you can use high frequency droplet with NVMe for even higher speeds at $6)
3. NGINX Native + FastCGI - don't worry about technical terms its just click and go with Runcloud, its Runcloud hub plugin automatically does cache
4. Redis Object Cache - Do this only if you have heavy DB frontend like woo commerce or your backend is slow and you want to speed it up
5. WP Rocket - This plugin is great, I have used Lighspeed cache plugin earlier, which was also good, but it doesn't cache on NGINX. If you have litespeed server try litespeed cache instead of WP Rocket
6. Statically.io Free CDN - This website does not use this CDN, but I have used it on another site and it increases your score, especially if you have worldwide audience. Its really simple to integrate and have easy to use plugin with few options

Thats it. other than that you know general guidelines for having a fast website i.e.

1. Use Fast Theme - Currently using Kadence, Astra is also fine, I am also digging Neve as it doesn't require jquery
2. Use Minimum Plugins - Self explanatory, I am using elementor and pro and few block plugins on this site

Other Plugins for Optimising
1. Perfmatters

Additional Service Required
1. Mxroute - For emails. I use $45 per annum plan to handle all emails or all domains
2. Rackspace Email or any other email provider if you are ok with paying per email

I hops this is helpful

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Freelancer_83 said:

Hey man thank you. I was just improving the site speed of a client website I have book marked this thread.. I will do all steps one by one and see how much it improved. Currently it takes 5 seconds to load checked on gtmetrix.
I will compress images. I can't change the theme

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Jeff Vh said:

Is the site for a woman?

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