This video covers several free plugins that we use to create fast loading WordPress websites. We go into detail on the use case of each plugin and why it actually works.
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Plugin 1: Cache Enabler
Plugin 2: Flying Images
Plugin 3: Statically – see speed test here: https://isotropic.co/speeding-up-a-wordpress-site-with-statically-a-free-cdn/
Plugin 4: Flying Pages
Plugin 5: Flying Scripts
Plugin 6: Asset Cleanup | A tutorial of ours: https://isotropic.co/how-to-identify-and-remove-unused-css-for-wordpress-websites/
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Excellent tutorial, congratulations. Great work. Well explained, logic, free. Thanks a lot, keep up the good work!
Great video! I'd still like to ask what's your opinion on W3 Total Cache?
How many plugins that spped things up can I add without slowing down the load time? Do I install some of these or all of these? Yep, I am new at this.
What a great video! THANK YOU! I liked and subscribed halfway through the video. In addition to building sites, do you help bloggers improve their site?
Thanks for the videos. A wealth of information. Love the blog also!
James tell me, CDN servers are good for geographically providing the closest server to the user. Here in South Africa and Australia where websites serve mainly the local citizens and nothing international. Would international CDN servers make a difference to speed?
Great tutorial! Could you please make a video on paid ways to maximize performance and what do you personally use?
Hey James, seems you know what you are talking about. I have a website that really needs someone like you to look at it. Gtmetrix score below 10%. Are you available to help me out? Paid ofcourse.
So do you use these 6 plugins all together on your sites? Or just 1 or 2?
Very informative tutorial on free plugins to speedup WP websites — Thank you!!! Would awesome if you could a follow-on video tutorial with more detailed timing comparisons. For example, start with a real world website and then incrementally add each of these plugins. This would give much better insight to page load speed improvements accomplished by each plugin.
One question for you. Could you clarify why choose Cache Enabler over the more popular free caching plugins such as Comet Cache or WP Super Cache, which perform very well (see https://athemes.com/performance/best-wordpress-caching-plugins/).
A video that didn't have me spend money! Haha