Need Wordpress plugin to enhance PageSpeed?

**casitan** · 2 August 2021, 9:54 pm

I feel that Async JavaScript is the most effective.
I think that there is no problem if you compress the image with your favorite plug-in.

The score increased a lot just by making javascript asynchronous.

**allbestcasino** · 13 August 2021, 2:25 am

Cloudflare is the top. It really speeds up and optimizes. Plus, of course, unload from plugins that just weigh, it's better to add something with code and that's it.

**CasinosBroker** · 25 August 2021, 6:28 am

We just tested NitroPack.io it seems to do the job properly.

Can go the old fashioned way, with CloudFlare or Bunny.net - and use WP Rocket. Try using this tutorial here.

**universal4** · 25 August 2021, 5:56 pm

https://wordpress.org/plugins/nitropack/

A pretty long list of plugins that nitro is incompatible with, so be aware if you are plugin crazy be sure to double check the list.

Pricing for Nitro starts at $17.50 per month, so a $210 investment will be required, or you are required to fly their banner.
https://nitropack.io/pricing

Also keep in mind, a 10 meg page banner that can be reduced to 3 megs or less will speed the download of that page banner more then ANY plugin will.

Looking closely at image sizes (as well as possible poor code or code errors) first often will do more for site speed then plugins alone.

Also keep in mind that any plugin or "service" that also requires additional "services" may lead one day to any one of those services to also add fees or charges in order to continue using such "services".

Rick
Universal4

**chaumi** · 26 August 2021, 7:14 am

From what I can see, that list of incompatible plugins with Nitropack is a bunch of other speed plugins....they're all doing (pretty much) the same things, hence why they are not compatible. Bottom line is if Nitropack works, in theory you wouldn't need anything else.

But does it really work anyway?

I read one 'review' that showed an improvement in mobile score from the 30s to the 50s . That doesn't seem good enough to me, although there were reported improvements in individual measurements.

...and I read somewhere (can't remember where and have no idea if it was accurate) that Nitropack is actually doing something to trick the PS analyser. Note that may be rubbish info...but maybe something to investigate and rule out if you use it or are intending to.

**bookmaker-osusume** · 30 October 2021, 4:30 am

As pageSpeedInsight points out, many websites in Japan are moving away from jpg images to webP images.
New images to be added can just be submitted as webP, but for images submitted in the past, many sites are using plugins to convert them to webP.

**robyroy** · 30 October 2021, 6:59 am

Originally Posted by bookmaker-osusume

As pageSpeedInsight points out, many websites in Japan are moving away from jpg images to webP images.
New images to be added can just be submitted as webP, but for images submitted in the past, many sites are using plugins to convert them to webP.

Is not a great idea to submit only webp version, because on many browsers webp is not suported. Best practice is to have 2 versions (jpeg and webp). If a browser cannot show a webp image, will show jpeg one. My 2cents.

**universal4** · 30 October 2021, 9:25 pm

Webp images are lighter (smaller in size) so they are faster and overall will reduce page load times.

I personally think it is better to convert the images BEFORE publishing them, rather then using a plugin.

I use photoshop with a plugin that allows save as webp, but there are also plenty of sites that allow converting online, and a number of third party software packages that do so also.

Rick
Universal4

**robyroy** · 31 October 2021, 3:14 am

Originally Posted by universal4

Webp images are lighter (smaller in size) so they are faster and overall will reduce page load times.

I personally think it is better to convert the images BEFORE publishing them, rather then using a plugin.

I use photoshop with a plugin that allows save as webp, but there are also plenty of sites that allow converting online, and a number of third party software packages that do so also.

Rick
Universal4

I am using litespeed for webp conversion. With this toy you can serve both webp and jpg images. As i know Safari offers partial webp support and is safer to have also jpg version available. (https://caniuse.com/webp)

**haraldborg** · 1 November 2021, 2:56 am

Personally I use Comet cache,

It improved my speed a lot.

Good luck,

Harald

**Royal JokerBet** · 10 August 2022, 3:27 am

Hi! I think you can try some of the cash and minimize plugins. But I insist to use it carefully. It's better to discuss this question with your programmer, sometimes plugins can be harmful for your websites. But there are good plugins for some tasks

**casinofronier** · 5 February 2023, 4:59 pm

I am using WP ROKET and I really struggled to score because of the number of plugins themselves due to the structure of the site.
Even now, the speed is still not comfortable, and I am still repeating trial and error.

**Former Member 14** · 10 February 2023, 6:15 pm

The irony...lol.

Use yet another WP plugin, which will optimise the speed of a webpage that's slow because of too many plugins!

**dannyx** · 11 February 2023, 10:20 am

Originally Posted by AussieDave

The irony...lol.

Use yet another WP plugin, which will optimise the speed of a webpage that's slow because of too many plugins!

What's wrong with that? Perhaps these plugins are needed so that the pages have the functionality that the site needs? Perhaps these plugins are needed so that the pages have the functionality that the site needs? There is so much to do in this gambling world, copywriting, marketing, social media, that not everyone wants to deal with coding on a larger scale yet.

I myself have 13 plugin, according to you it is a lot.
I have hundreds of images, icons, gifs, graphics, multimedia.
The results of page speed ins. 99% on mobile and computers
GTmetrix the same.

WP Rocket is the best wordpress plugin when it comes to optimization. And it trumps what you can do yourself in htaccess and many other places on your side. There are a lot of developers with a lot of knowledge behind WP Rocket. They have specialized in this field for years. But many will say that they know better about the experts, who make huge money on this specialization precisely.

**xecutable** · 11 February 2023, 11:17 am

Originally Posted by dannyx

What's wrong with that? Perhaps these plugins are needed so that the pages have the functionality that the site needs? Perhaps these plugins are needed so that the pages have the functionality that the site needs? There is so much to do in this gambling world, copywriting, marketing, social media, that not everyone wants to deal with coding on a larger scale yet.

I myself have 13 plugin, according to you it is a lot.
I have hundreds of images, icons, gifs, graphics, multimedia.
The results of page speed ins. 99% on mobile and computers
GTmetrix the same.

WP Rocket is the best wordpress plugin when it comes to optimization. And it trumps what you can do yourself in htaccess and many other places on your side. There are a lot of developers with a lot of knowledge behind WP Rocket. They have specialized in this field for years. But many will say that they know better about the experts, who make huge money on this specialization precisely.

Cloudflare's optimizations on any given website will surpass those with WP-Rocket. Especially with the Argo routing, the CDN functionality, bot blocks, image optimizations, DDos protections, now with captcha functionality and much more. I was a WP-Rocket user for over 3 years, and going to Cloudflare felt like a big upgrade of course for a price.

There was also an issue with WP-Rocket when some of their offices caught fire, 5-6 years ago, which caused me a lot of trouble. I've also used Autooptimize which is written by Frank Goossens, a very knowledgeable and helpful guy, that I've had the pleasure to talk to and work with. In terms of compatibility, I'll take his plugin over any other for the personal support he offers, but that beyond the point.

As for the plugins the complexity, functionality and the code of the plugin itself matters a lot. I myself use 6, with 1 of them being just a cookie message that only shows up once per user, one that's cloaked links which are simple httacces redirects, the Cloudflare one itself, one for a contact form that loads only on the contact page only, and the biggest one is RankMath.

Now compare that to a few menu plugins, mixed with several Cache, Seo, Functionality plugins that have been written poorly and you have a recipe for a lot of speed problems. One famous company around here that designs themes and releases plugins for gambling affiliates does this, and when Wordpress deprecated jQuery after version 5.5, they simply included a local version of jQuery with the plugin and that was it. Functional on an old code, at the expense of the speed and security of all of the sites running it.

Anyways, bottom line is yes more plugins used, the more potential for compatibility issues, keyword potential. At the end of the day your business is your business and you decide what what you want to use and how to use it. If it works for you, great.

**Former Member 14** · 11 February 2023, 7:55 pm

Originally Posted by dannyx

What's wrong with that? Perhaps these plugins are needed so that the pages have the functionality that the site needs? Perhaps these plugins are needed so that the pages have the functionality that the site needs? There is so much to do in this gambling world, copywriting, marketing, social media, that not everyone wants to deal with coding on a larger scale yet.

Originally Posted by xecutable

As for the plugins the complexity, functionality and the code of the plugin itself matters a lot. I myself use 6, with 1 of them being just a cookie message that only shows up once per user, one that's cloaked links which are simple httacces redirects, the Cloudflare one itself, one for a contact form that loads only on the contact page only, and the biggest one is RankMath.

Now compare that to a few menu plugins, mixed with several Cache, Seo, Functionality plugins that have been written poorly and you have a recipe for a lot of speed problems. One famous company around here that designs themes and releases plugins for gambling affiliates does this, and when Wordpress deprecated jQuery after version 5.5, they simply included a local version of jQuery with the plugin and that was it. Functional on an old code, at the expense of the speed and security of all of the sites running it.

I use 6 too. Anything I can code into the functions.php, I will, to avoid using another plugin. Just because I run a gutzy VPS, and could use more plugins without any speed issues, doesn't mean I would.

That's what most new-breed members forget...You and I xecutable, and others such as Universal come from an era, when, if you didn't know how to code, you either hired a web-developer or you found something else to do.

Some of the new-breed attempt to make us old-timers look foolish.

When, it's their comments that lack basic programming knowledge, especially when it comes to WP.

FYI... I 1'st used WP version 2.6.0 - released July 2008. I'm definitely NOT WP plugin/WP ignorant, neither are you xecutable or Universal!

**DaftDog** · 12 February 2023, 1:05 am

My current WP site has 15 plugins and is hosted on a decent Litespeed shared hosting account in SA, and I use Quic.cloud CDN.

My Lighthouse speed report for my home page: Mobile 92 / 100 / 100 / 100, Desktop 100/100/100/100.

No need to choose sides in this debate, just do what you're good at.

**Polina Ra** · 9 March 2023, 7:08 am

Based on my experience I can tell that plugins rarrely can solve speed issues. Better call on web developer

**cfs24** · 14 March 2023, 11:51 am

Originally Posted by casinofronier

I am using WP ROKET and I really struggled to score because of the number of plugins themselves due to the structure of the site.
Even now, the speed is still not comfortable, and I am still repeating trial and error.

I used WP rocket premium for a 1 year but I'm not satisfied

**dannyx** · 9 April 2023, 3:08 am

Originally Posted by universal4

Webp images are lighter (smaller in size) so they are faster and overall will reduce page load times.

I personally think it is better to convert the images BEFORE publishing them, rather then using a plugin.

I use photoshop with a plugin that allows save as webp, but there are also plenty of sites that allow converting online, and a number of third party software packages that do so also.

Rick
Universal4

True, such a plug-in is nonsense. It converts the images itself before uploading to the site.
Although I am not against plug-ins, or rather the number of them, this is an example of plug-ins that make no sense.

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