Five quick wins for a faster WordPress site
Practical speed fixes that improve Core Web Vitals.
Speed problems usually come from a handful of causes. Fix those and most sites improve noticeably.
Usual suspects
- Huge images uploaded straight from a camera.
- Too many plugins and scripts.
- No caching or CDN.
Quick wins
- Convert images to WebP and resize them.
- Remove unused plugins.
- Enable page caching.
- Serve the site through Cloudflare.
Always test on a real phone after each change.
