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WordPress speed optimization

A blazing fast WordPress website.

Incredible speed, a flawless user experience and strong search rankings. WordPromise experts reduce load time and boost your Google PageSpeed and Core Web Vitals scores, addressing the most important PageSpeed Insights recommendations.

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Optimization techniques

3

Industry speed tools

Monthly

Performance reports

Why speed matters

A slow website costs you visitors and rankings.

It is a proven fact that slow websites cause higher bounce rates and a poor user experience — and search engines take notice.

Higher bounce rate

Visitors leave before a slow page finishes loading, taking your leads and sales with them.

Lower search rankings

Site speed is a ranking factor. Google can penalize slow sites and poor web vitals scores.

Poor user experience

Heavy pages feel sluggish, especially on mobile connections.

Managed speed services

Twelve optimizations, included.

Here are the optimizations we apply and maintain, through hours of manual work and premium licensed plugins.

IMAGES

Optimize website images

Lossless compression for every image, plus automatic compression for future uploads.

CSS

Inline critical CSS

CSS load prioritized so visitors see above-the-fold content with minimal CSS calls.

CODE

Minify JavaScript & CSS

All scripts and styles collected, minified and compressed.

MEDIA

Lazy loading images

Images and iFrames lazy-loaded to cut load time and save bandwidth.

CACHE

Leverage browser caching

A regularly updated cached version of your site is served to visitors.

SERVER

Enable compression

Gzip compression enabled wherever your assets are delivered from.

RENDER

Render-blocking resources

JavaScript, CSS and font code moved so it doesn’t delay front-end elements.

URLS

Remove query strings

URLs with “?” aren’t cached by some proxy servers and CDNs — we fix that.

HOSTING

Review server response time

An underpowered hosting server is a common cause of slow pages. We check it.

REQUESTS

Reduce HTTP requests

CSS and JS files combined to cut the number of requests.

CDN

CDN support

Content delivered from servers closer to your visitors.

MOBILE

Optimize mobile experience

Pages tuned for fast, smooth loading on phones.

How we measure

Scores you can verify yourself.

We test how fast your website loads across browsers and devices using the three most-used performance tools.

BY GOOGLE

PageSpeed Insights

Checks your site’s performance across devices and provides the most suitable recommendations and suggestions.

SPEED & SEO

GTmetrix

Gives website owners insight into page performance, so the site can be optimized for both speed and SEO.

MONITORING

Pingdom

A popular, industry-proven speed test and website monitoring tool.

Premium licensed performance plugins, included and managed for you.

How we keep you fast

Fast today, and fast next month.

Getting a website to load quickly is one thing. Keeping it fast as your site changes is the real game-changer.

01

Measure

Baseline tests with PageSpeed Insights, GTmetrix and Pingdom.

02

Optimize

Hours of manual optimization plus premium plugins like Hummingbird Pro.

03

Monitor

Ongoing checks, because sites slow down again as content changes.

04

Report

Speed and web vitals scores tracked in your monthly report.

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WordPromise provides our clients with an expert webmaster and custom development team at a fraction of the cost.
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Tom Bergey
Bergey Creative Group
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speed optimizations on every site

FAQs

Speed questions, answered.

Can’t find what you need? Browse all FAQs or contact our team.

Talk to our support team

Email us or raise a ticket in your dashboard.

How does WordPromise speed up my website?

Through hours of manual optimization and premium licensed plugins included in our care plans: image optimization, minified JavaScript and CSS, render-blocking fixes, browser caching, cache management, mobile optimization, combined requests, lazy loading, critical CSS, CDN support and monthly reports. We partner with premium plugins like Hummingbird Pro and WP Smush Pro.

We don’t recommend it. A one-time optimization may help your site load faster now, but as your site changes over the following weeks and months it will slow down again unless someone keeps optimizing it. We believe in long-term partnerships.

We recommend the three most-used performance tools: Google PageSpeed Insights, GTmetrix and Pingdom. Together they show how fast your site loads across browsers and devices.

Yes. We use lossless compression to optimize all your images without losing quality, and set up automatic compression for any image uploaded in future.

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