Tips for a faster website

A slow site loses visitors and drops in search results. The steps that help most:

  • Optimise images. Don't upload 5–10 MB phone photos directly; resize them to the size they're shown on screen and use the WebP format where you can;
  • Drop unnecessary plugins. Every plugin means extra scripts and requests;
  • Cut down tracking scripts. Don't use several analytics tools or chat widgets for the same purpose;
  • Use caching. On WordPress sites, a caching plugin helps pages load faster;
  • Check the mobile score. Test your site in Google's free PageSpeed Insights tool — most visitors come from phones.

If your site is on our hosting and it has suddenly slowed down, open a request — we'll check the server side.

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