EP203 – Plugins to speed up your WordPress website

Images

• Imagify-Online and CMS Image Compression 00:04
• WP Smush-Image Optimization 00:04
• Kraken.io Image Optimizer 00:04
• EWWW Image Optimizer 00:05
• Simple Image Sizes 00:07
• imsanity – WordPress Plugins 00:08
• Photon — Jetpack for WordPress 00:09

Caching

• WP Rocket 00:11
• WP Fastest Cache 00:12
• W3 Total Cache 00:12

Advanced Caching

• Apache module for rewriting web pages to reduce latency and bandwidth.
• WP Redis
• Memcached Object Cache

Cloud Firewalls

• CloudFlare-The web performance & security company
• Sucuri Website Firewall

Things to watch out for

• Avada – WP Theme 00:18
• Visual Composer 00:19

Tools for finding slowness and to help optimize further

• P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler)
• Plugin Organizer 00:24
• WP Asset Clean Up 00:25