Hey everyone! I'm looking for some suggestions on how to enhance the page speed of my website. Right now, I've compressed the images and used the WP optimizer to minify CSS and other files, but I'm hoping for more tips or even a good plugin to help. Here's my site: https://downeastacadia.com. What else can I do to optimize it? Thanks!
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It seems like while your image compression is great, the actual dimensions of your images might still be too large. For example, the middle image on your homepage is 2560x1708, but it really doesn’t need to be that big. You could resize it to about 1000 pixels across instead! If you want a quick tool to ensure all your images are compressed before uploading, I really recommend using Squoosh—it’s super handy!
As someone who's new to web development, I totally get your situation. When I’ve disabled caching and looked at the download speeds, it actually seems pretty fast, but I noticed some waiting times on the .jpg and .js files. A CDN might help speed things up if you want to take it a step further! Just make sure to focus on optimization for your primary audience area (like Maine) unless you have users elsewhere that might need it too.
I feel you on that! I’m not a developer either, and I’ve tried plugins that ended up breaking my site. I’ve seen suggestions from PageSpeed insights, but honestly, I just don’t have the time to dig into them or implement the changes.
You might want to run a Lighthouse report using the Chrome or Edge dev tools; it's super helpful! I noticed a couple of issues: first, it looks like most of your assets don’t have cache lifetime set. You could fix this by installing the Cloudflare WP plugin and setting your domain to go through Cloudflare—it’s free! If you’re not keen on using Cloudflare, there are other WP plugins that can help with cache settings too. Also, your server is still on HTTP/1 instead of 2 or 3. This might be causing files to download one at a time instead of in parallel. Adjusting this could help speed things up! Check out more about multiplexing and HTTP/2 [here](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36517829/what-does-multiplexing-mean-in-http-2) for a deeper dive.
There are quite a few things that could be improved on your site. A good starting point is definitely to resize those images for better performance!
For images across different screen sizes, have you considered using a picture tag with alternate image sizes? It could help with performance!