How to Increase Your Loading Speed

Website speed is a critical factor for user retention. It has been proven that if your loading speed is too slow, visitors will leave before the page finishes loading.

Basics First

• Use tools like Pingdom to analyze your current loading speed.
• Make sure you have a reliable web host that meets the minimum server requirements.
• Optimize your images for the web: max 2000px wide, 2500px tall, and around 500KB per image.

Caching and Optimization Plugins

Once your theme is installed, you may notice it is slower than the demo. This is because our demos run a cache system. Here are the 3 plugins we use on all our demos:

1. EWWW Image Optimizer — automatically compresses images on upload.
2. WP Super Cache — generates static HTML files to serve visitors faster.
3. Autoptimize — minifies and combines CSS/JS files.

Important for Autoptimize: uncheck the "Also aggregate inline CSS" option, and add this exclusion line to the "Exclude scripts from Autoptimize" field.

CDN

For even faster loading, use a CDN (Content Delivery Network) to serve your static assets (images, videos, etc.) from servers closer to your visitors. We use and recommend Bunny.net.

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