Dumb SEO Questions

(Entry was posted by Micah Fisher-Kirshner on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 12/06/2018).

Tips for optimizing a mobile site`s load times

What are some recommended WordPress plugins or tips for optimizing a mobile site`s load times?
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YOUR ANSWERS

Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.

  • Moshe Mo: Actually less are better ... but to answer your question try a caching plugin like w3 total cache. This answer realy depends on your website type. What kind of site are you trying to optimize?
  • Micah Fisher-Kirshner: Moshe decently large company site in b2b SaaS space.
  • Moshe Mo: Micah Fisher-Kirshner then this plugin can fit you quite good. Be sure to check the right settings for your website/ theme, the internet has covered almost every available parameter in an understandable way (Y)
  • Charles Whitworth: Jetpack can be good for lazy loading
  • Charles Whitworth: See if you can install this too: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/module/
  • Sean Clarke: Find a host that uses PHP 7.*
  • Wissam Dandan: Wp rocket is good
  • Lisa Brown: I use a combination of WP Rocket, Autoptimize, Cloudflare. What really moved the needle was switching to LiquidWeb`s WordPress hosting, the site had been on an older VPS. That combination gave 50% to 85% improvements depending on the page.
  • E Dieter Martin: AMP plugin would work for blog and news style sites.
  • E Dieter Martin: Other than that a careful review of the site is in order. Google`s Pagespeed Insights can be helpful but some WordPress oddities make it hard to find the real culprits in the sea of messages.
  • Marco Hernández Daly: WP-Fastest Cache & Lazy Loader

View original question in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 12/06/2018).