Follow along as I optimize this WordPress site and take it from turtle to rabbit speed. Each article in this Turtle to Rabbit series covers one optimization task; identify an issue, optimize, and then analyze how much performance improves.
In part 5 of the Turtle to Rabbit WordPress optimization series, I show how I find and remove unused code and plugins.
In part 4 of the Turtle to Rabbit WordPress optimization series, I show how I reduce fonts to save my visitors 100 KB and 5 requests.
In part 3 of the Turtle to Rabbit WordPress optimization series, I show how to identify third-party bloat. I then step through lazy loading YouTube to reduce my mobile data by 551 KB.
In part 2 of the Turtle to Rabbit WordPress optimization series, I show how adding a server-side caching plugin reduces my mobile load time by 1.6 seconds.
In part 1 of the Turtle to Rabbit WordPress optimization series, I show how I optimize images to reduce my mobile data by 9 MB and decrease mobile load time by 4.6 seconds.