Performance Resources

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Resources – Performance and Security

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PLUGINS

  • Smush – A WordPress plugin designed to help compress images.
  • Imagify – Another plugin that compresses images and because it runs in the background, it will compress images as they are added to the site. There is both a free plan that has limits and a paid plan with unlimited compression.
  • Imsanity is a free plugin on the WordPress repository that allows the WordPress site administrator to set a limit for the maximum size of all images uploaded. This plugin will set the limit for the full-size image as determined by the WordPress standard image sizes.

WEB-BASED

  • Tinypng – A website that you can use to compress images prior to uploading to your site.
  • Cloudinary – A medial management tool that stores and compresses images and acts as a CDN (Content Delivery Network).
  • Compressor.io is another website tool that can be used to compress images.

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Good WordPress managed hosting options include Pagely, Liquid Web, WPEngineSiteground.  GoDaddy and Bluehost also have managed WordPress hosting options in addition to their traditional hosting platforms.

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Cloudflare is a global network designed to make everything you connect to the Internet secure, private, fast, and reliable. We use Cloudflare for our DNS service to improve speed and secure our websites.

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It is helpful to conduct page speed tests on your website. Webpage Test, Google Page Speed Insights, and GTMetrix are great tools to use.

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