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Resize, optimize and compress all of your images with the, incredibly powerful and 100% free WordPress image smusher, brought to you by the superteam at WPMU DEV! Award Winning Image Optimization Smush has been benchmarked and tested number one for speed and quality and is the award winning proven crowd favorite image optimization plugin for WordPress. Now with image resizing! Set a max width and height and large images will scale down as they are being compressed. Our servers do all the heavy lifting. Large image files may be slowing down your site without you even knowing it. WP Smush meticulously scans every image you upload – or have already added to your site – cuts all the unnecessary data and scales it for you before adding it to your media library. Compress any Image in any Directory In addition to smushing your media uploads, you may want to compress the images stored in other folders. ★★★★★ “I had no idea that my page load time was being dragged down by the images. About Us bug fix

Measure Speed up - PageSpeed Service The extent of speed up PageSpeed Service provides depends on a variety of factors such as content on your pages, browser, geographic location of access, bandwidth, etc. This page lists instructions to schedule tests from different locations around the world, on different browsers and on different networks, so you can measure the exact speed up for your site, and understand the results. Running the tests Go to Enter the URL of your website, say www.example.com. Optional steps: Choose the test location and browser. The default is IE8 from US East (Virginia).Select More Configurations... for a broader selection of locations, browsers and network connection type. The test may take several minutes to complete, depending on the load on the test servers. Understanding the results The test involves rendering your website on the selected browser by directly visiting your site, and repeating the same test by proxying your site through PageSpeed Service.

Web Performance Optimization, Web Page Load Speed Optimization Speeding up your site helps: Google has even made site load speed data available through Google Webmaster Tools and Google Analytics. Yahoo Developer Network has compiled this document on web performance optimization – 35 best practices for speeding up load time of your website and/or web pages. Minimize HTTP Requests 80% of the end-user response time is spent on the front-end. One way to reduce the number of components in the page is to simplify the page’s design. Combined files are a way to reduce the number of HTTP requests by combining all scripts into a single script, and similarly combining all CSS into a single stylesheet. CSS Sprites are the preferred method for reducing the number of image requests. Image maps combine multiple images into a single image. Inline images use the data: URL scheme to embed the image data in the actual page. Reducing the number of HTTP requests in your page is the place to start. Use a Content Delivery Network Add an Expires or a Cache-Control Header

High performance WordPress | Go Make Things This is part 3 of Wicked Fast Websites, a three-part series that explores why web performance matters and what you can do about it. WordPress is a powerful tool, and it brings with some unique performance challenges. In part 2, we looked at how to build high performance websites. This article will explore some WordPress-specific techniques and plugins. Markup Order Matters Where you place styles and scripts in your markup can make your site render faster. wp_enqueue_style() loads your stylesheets in the header by default—which is where we want them—so you don’t need to modify anything here. wp_enqueue_script() also loads scripts in the header, and we want them in the footer. wp_enqueue_script( $handle, $src, $deps, $ver, $in_footer ); That last argument tells WordPress whether or not to load the script in the footer. Minify & Concatenate Every HTTP request adds additional load time, so you should combine like files. In WordPress, plugins make this a bit more challenging. Minifying your HTML