How to increase site speed

Time to First Byte

At 450ms for a anon user, this is not that great. Easiest way to make it better is using a better server with faster CPU.

I get half of that here on Meta.

Site Size

2.4MB for a website is crazy. Reduce that ASAP.

Meta sits at 816KB currently, and that’s somewhat heavy, but we have made it better last year, and will make it better this year too.

Requests

Your site have double (120) the request count of Meta. We know HTTP2 makes it better to have many requests, and saved us from the inline-everything dark ages, but this isn’t an excuse to use 100+ requests to draw a webpage.

Plugin stravaganza

Last time I checked you have more than 10 third-party plugins. Well, as some guy said The best code is no code at all.

If you really want all those cool plugins, well you have to pay the speed price.

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