Site performance optimization

Nobody likes slow websites; we all know that. Besides that, page speed can have a real impact on your user's engagement, because nobody wants to wait for a website to load. We've added a few plugins and a lot of images. Now, let's start optimizing our website and make our users love our website even more by using some techniques for speeding up upload times. There are two very basic things we can do, which are to optimize heavy images and to minify CSS and jQuery code. Let's do that.

Optimizing images

The first thing we have to optimize is our images, and that is because images are usually by far the more heavy content of our webpage. Some of our images are quite heavy, such as our hero image, which is more than 480KB. All of these images, combined with when we download the website, take a long time. Imagine someone with a slow internet connection on a smartphone who is trying to download this site. This would take them forever. So, let's reduce the file sizes...