What are the ways to Optimize Your Website's Loading Speed?

[Flow-er]

Image optimization is a fantastic place to start! Image compression improvements can reduce many kilobytes and speed improvements in loading to much greater extents. I found some time-efficient tools for doing this, like TinyPNG or ImageOptim.

 

[DaniWeb]

Fewer and leaner JavaScript files that use async or defer so as to not block HTML from rendering has to be number one for me.

Also, if you aren’t already, use a CDN for caching sufh as Cloudflare or Fastly.

The other big thing I do is cache HTML at the edge for non logged in users.

 

[greenhost.cloud]

Agree that image optimization can work wonders. Also, consider trimming down unnecessary plugins and maybe using a CDN. Little tweaks can help make your site feel snappier.

 

[Bryn]

Having a Let's Encrypt certificate is one way to speed things up... at least for me anyway.

 

[cpvr]

Image optimization is a fantastic place to start! Image compression improvements can reduce many kilobytes and speed improvements in loading to much greater extents. I found some time-efficient tools for doing this, like TinyPNG or ImageOptim.

It’s not just image optimization that speeds up your site. Setting up a cache system for your css, javascript and html also boasts your site speed.

Utilizing redis, memcache or other cache systems on the backend also boasts your site’s speed.

You can implement header caching in your .htaccess as well, which will boast your site’s speed.

Gzip compression also works well or Brotli.

 

[Nomad]

I use light weight theme, limit plugin usage and also limit multimedia usage

 

[Shawn Gossman]

For a forum, there are many things you can do:

1. Use a CDN for images and attachments
2. Use Cloudflare
3. Use a simple theme or customize the default one
4. Use less plugins

But most of all, make sure your hosting service is fast. If your forum is growing and you're still using shared, once it reaches the point where shared hosting isn't good enough, no matter what you do to improve performance, it's not going to help until you upgrade to something like a VPS.

 

[Maya]

Keep your web page size small, perhaps down to 3.5 mb so that page loads faster

 

[Page]

Used caching, compressed images, and a CDN to load files faster. Minified CSS/JS, removed unnecessary plugins, and optimized the database. Also improved hosting performance and made sure pages load quickly on mobile.