How to increase website speed ?

**elieli88** · 3 September 2018, 9:58 am

I know that page/website speed is very important and I love fast pages/websites. Do anyone have any suggestions on how to increase website/page speed?
Is the type of host very important ?

**nfint12** · 3 September 2018, 10:00 am

A good host is important, try using a caching on your website, gtmetrix.com is a good tool too.

**PROFRBcom** · 3 September 2018, 10:04 am

Hosting is one of the most important things. Don't be cheap, get great hosting. Make sure it includes a content delivery network that is high quality and has multiple servers in your main targeted countries.

Cutting out and getting rid of extra plugins and modules your site does not need are great ways to speed up your site as well.

For a good start on seeing what is wrong with your site, try using Google's pagespeed insights tool: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/

**luckyga** · 3 September 2018, 11:25 am

GTMetrix is good, Google PageSpeed is okay as it gives a rough idea on things but take it with a pinch of a salt as it's not the most accurate when it comes to results. You may like to take a look at Pingdom for pointers as well.

**elieli88** · 3 September 2018, 12:01 pm

Originally Posted by luckyga

GTMetrix is good, Google PageSpeed is okay as it gives a rough idea on things but take it with a pinch of a salt as it's not the most accurate when it comes to results. You may like to take a look at Pingdom for pointers as well.

Pingdom gives me completely different pagespeed. Which one is the most reliable u think? gtmetrix or https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed or pingdom ?

**elieli88** · 3 September 2018, 12:05 pm

My weak part of the webpage speed is this parts according to pingdom :

	Combine external JavaScript
f 14	Leverage browser caching
f 25	Combine external CSS
f 33	Minimize request size Anyone know how to deal with this problems ?

**allfreechips** · 3 September 2018, 12:10 pm

Fast server / CDN / NODE / image delivery & size options...

If your using Wordpress then you need to deal with it for the most part as its so bulky.

**citizen42** · 3 September 2018, 1:31 pm

For browser caching you can either configure your server or do it through services like Cloudflare.

For requests, you have multiple external javascipt and css files, if you combine them in one (one js and one css), if possible, you will automatically reduce the request size, as well. You should also minify those files.

That's the general idea, it depends on what's exactly going on there.

**wonderpunter** · 3 September 2018, 1:36 pm

This i what I done, cleaned up code, ditched unused plugins and uneeded, cloudflare pro then high spec cloud server with litespeed and litespeed cache plugin.. 2nd load in around 600-700 ms.. which for the size of my site and the amount of code and images is not bad

**luckyga** · 4 September 2018, 2:08 am

Originally Posted by elieli88

Pingdom gives me completely different pagespeed. Which one is the most reliable u think? gtmetrix or https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed or pingdom ?

I use all three, but find GTMetrix the most useful for finding out what areas of a site need working on and Pingdom is a good indicator for load time comparison as a before and after. PageSpeed, pretty much ignore what it says but still use it out of curiosity.

**elieli88** · 4 September 2018, 4:14 am

Originally Posted by elieli88

I know that page/website speed is very important and I love fast pages/websites. Do anyone have any suggestions on how to increase website/page speed?
Is the type of host very important ?

I have the option to choose: (clear cache and minified css and js)
will it increase my page speed and is it a risk for my site to get damaged ?

**luckyga** · 4 September 2018, 4:26 am

Originally Posted by elieli88

I have the option to choose: (clear cache and minified css and js)
will it increase my page speed and is it a risk for my site to get damaged ?

Minifying css and js can both improve page speed and break it, depends on the code. Best thing to do is always make a back up first, then try it, if anything goes wrong you can always just re-install the original version.

**elieli88** · 4 September 2018, 5:14 am

Originally Posted by luckyga

Minifying css and js can both improve page speed and break it, depends on the code. Best thing to do is always make a back up first, then try it, if anything goes wrong you can always just re-install the original version.

I tried it, it made my page load slower, glad that I had a backup, thanx!

**elieli88** · 4 September 2018, 5:16 am

Do Youtube clips slow down the website speed a lot?
Is there a way to make videos load faster or not to decrease website speed ?

**MMM** · 4 September 2018, 8:41 am

Originally Posted by elieli88

Pingdom gives me completely different pagespeed. Which one is the most reliable u think? gtmetrix or https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed or pingdom ?

Make sure that you are using similar locations in all of them for comparison.

**PROFRBcom** · 4 September 2018, 2:59 pm

GTMetrix and Pingdom are great for getting nitty gritty and improving real world page load speed times. Google's Pagespeed Insights is great because it is Google... directly... telling you... what they care about you fixing!

So in reality, you should do both

**moizez** · 6 September 2018, 5:01 pm

Dont forget https://www.webpagetest.org/

**Cash Bonus** · 6 September 2018, 5:25 pm

elieli88, here is also another great site for you to check out: https://alternativeto.net/software/webpagetest/

You'll find many useful tools listed in there that come in handy. Best of luck!

**wonderpunter** · 7 September 2018, 12:49 am

Originally Posted by vtyunby65

elieli88, here is also another great site for you to check out: https://alternativeto.net/software/webpagetest/

You'll find many useful tools listed in there that come in handy. Best of luck!

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**elieli88** · 7 September 2018, 3:20 am

Originally Posted by wonderpunter

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