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Speeding up your Website

Here is a list of what you can do to make your website faster.

If your website is still slow after optimization, ask your host to check server response times and resource limits. A larger plan or a different provider may help. You can compare our recommended webhosts, including Kinsta for managed WordPress hosting. If you are comfortable managing your own server, our SpinupWP tutorial explains that option and its separate service and server costs.

  • Make sure you enable "Layout Cache" in "Lay Options": Layout Cache
  • Use the Plugin Converter for Media – Optimize images | Convert WebP & AVIF and convert your images to webp. Watch Reel. It is not enough to just activate that plugin. You need to create the webp images in the plugin settings.
  • If you use a caching plugin already, try disabling it. Some caching plugins may slow down your website when they are configured improperly.
  • Try and see if you can use a CDN in your webhost control panel
  • If you cannot, use the CDN Plugin "Shift8 CDN"
  • Use .mp4 videos instead of gifs, in the Gridder add them with +Video → +HTML5 Video
  • Use jpg's instead of png's
  • Make sure "Lay Options" → "Lazy Loading" is activated
  • Make sure "Lay Options" → "Carousel Addon" → "Lazyload images" is turned on
  • Disable any plugins you don't use, including Lay Theme Addons you don't use
  • Ask your webhost why your site might be loading slowly, maybe your server is slow. Maybe you can upgrade your webhosting package to a faster one.
  • Make sure the option "Lay Options" → "Disable Ajax / Compatibility Mode" is disabled. This can at least speed up subsequent pageloads when you click on links on your website. It does not speed up the initial website-page load.
  • Set "Showing Animation Duration" to 0 in "Lay Options" - "Navigation Animations" Section
  • Uncheck "Use Showing Animation when first visiting website or hard reload" in "Lay Options" - "Navigation Animations" Section
  • Use HTML5 video files that are smaller in file-size. Handbrake is a desktop app that I recommend for compressing videos.
  • If you use HTML5 videos on desktop and use the same videos for phone, they might be too big for phone. In this case you could create a Custom Phone Layout and insert HTML 5 videos with smaller file size. Or you could just use YouTube or Vimeo Videos.