Easily Speed Up WordPress: How To Optimize Your Website & Make It Load Fast

[@aleksandarpetkovski9235]

Give this guy a medal. Finally someone who knows what he is talking about on the subject of wordpress.

[@thebibleproof]

You should see the Oxygen Builder he designed for WordPress.

[@TheBestEpicProGamer]

All other youtubers are telling you stuff like install this plugin, configure that stuff... but this man got straight to the problems and provided the right solutions. Great content 👍🏻

[@fede_wenzel]

This is by far, the best website optimization tutorial ever. Simple, it goes straight to the solutions. Great video and sound quality. This is THE example of tutorials that should be made. Thank you very much.

[@tiarnan76]

Best tutorial Ive ever seen - went from a performance of F and LCP time of 5.9 secs to an A and LCP of 1.0 - took a couple of hours but was actually quite fun seeing the progress each time - and yes - u deserve the medal of honor or something :)

[@williamsullivan4246]

I don't understand how this only has 37k views! There are not really any other optimization videos out there, that are this thorough, or that understand the content this well. Thank you!

[@humanyoda]

Because there are no pics of naked women in this video.

[@Administrandowp]

Finally you can see two of the most important things when we talk about speed. 1. Hosting, 2. Images. It is less relevant but you talk first about avoiding extra http request loading the correct assests with the help of Asset Cleanup plugin and also talk about avoiding extra fonts showing us how Oxygen helps with this task. These both things are not critical when we talk about speed but you can try to avoid them as you shown in the video. There are other important speed topics that you do not talk about in the video and these topics are caching and CDN. WPEngine is one of the most powerfull hostings for WordPress, so this is a critical point. There are also other well hosting companys out there, for instance FastComet. Images are also other big problem when we talk about speed. You shown us one way to solve it. Nice. Other way to solve the topic of the images is ShortPixel or WP Smusht and so on. Regarding the topic to avoiding http extra request just loading the right assest in each page there is also another well plugin for that called perfmatters.io/. Caching is always important, so using a cache plugin is always a benefit for the site. There is a free plugin called WP Fastest Cache that is very easy to setup and you do not need to be an expert. It very helpfull. And about CDN it helps but it is not as critical as hosting, images and caching. It is a little bit more difficult to setup but there are a lot of well videos and post about it out there where everybody can learn as in this video. Very nice video Louis. I will take a look to Asset Cleanup plugin.

[@abhijangid8332]

Best video out on KZbin which teaches how to increase Wordpress website speed. First I used to ignore the video because of its time but when I was not getting any solution I finally came here and got the best solution. Thank you, this video solved my every problem regarding website speed.

[@funmeister]

Great job, Louis. The world needs more of these types of videos. Like your website example, this video is optimal, pithy and bloat free, just pure value from start to finish.

[@DarrenTalksTech]

This is absolutely the best video on speeding up WordPress sites. You deserve to be commended for such a great job. Thanks!

[@successfulpodcast]

Good video. At 20:51, you don't have to look for the biggest image by eyeball. You can simply click the Size column header twice to sort from largest to smallest.

[@borednomad]

This is the only tutorial you need to speed up your wordpress site. Thank you so much. I got my site from a low scoring 30 to 97. I had been trying other plug ins and nothing was working. I just had so much bloat, and this helped me skim off all the junk slowing down my site, in a way I was able to understand the process.

[@scotthenson1329]

I literally spent all night researching how to get my Page speed faster and then I found this, well worth the hour. Thank you SO much!

[@BlackWarriorLures]

agreed!

[@alxhrrs]

i saw this video about a year ago and have been using the 'asset clean up' plugin ever since. it completely changed my game. thank you so much man for sharing!

[@ak_greyjoy]

Best Tutorial I Have Ever Seen In My Whole Life. Thanks For This Tutorial. God Bless You

[@philwatts]

The beauty of this is that it's all within the browser. No other software required. Thanks Louis.

[@WilliamLawrence7]

This, now this is a good page speed optimization video. Asset cleanup is a tool I didn't even know exist, and it's one AMAZING tool that helped me shave a lot of time off my front page loading times. All around though, this is the best wordpress page speed optimization video on youtube. You sir, are the man!

[@gabriellivan7040]

I'm glad you found Asset CleanUp useful, William! I'm its Lead Developer and I'm excited to take it to the next level. If you found it useful, it would be great if you can leave feedback for the plugin here bit.ly/2TFv5h8 at your earliest convenience.

[@WilliamLawrence7]

@@gabriellivan7040 absolutely, you've created a powerful and very useful tool for developers here. People like you make the WordPress community the best in the world. I'm very happy to give you a 5 star review, keep up the good work!

[@gabriellivan7040]

@@WilliamLawrence7 Thanks, you can leave it whenever you have a chance. Do let me know what else you'd like to see added (new features, UI things to make your editing experience easier etc.) in the near future for Asset CleanUp!

[@vladdascalu6254]

Amazing!

[@JunedzHan]

Agrreeeeeeedddd

[@ryanhuggins]

This is an amazing video! Definitely one of the best optimization tutorials I've seen (and I've watched many). Improved my performance considerably more than caching and so call performance plugins I've used in the past. Had never heard of this plugin or GTMetrix before either. Like Oxygen, these are going to be part of my build for all new sites. Took my site from a 4.9s load time with 1.9m and 37 requests to a 1.4s load time with 605k and 19 requests! I then re-enabled Oxygen's CSS caching and got it down to an insane 0.8s load time!!!!! Cannot begin to fully convey how happy I am with this tutorial and the training/tutorials that Oxygen produces!

[@MichaelSharpTechniSmart]

The timeless gold standard of Wordpress site optimization.

[@eidoproperties7568]

Best Tutorial i have ever seen, really works my site has gone from over 15 seconds to 3 and i am not done yet. Thank you. i need to really use oxygen too

[@-ct-celcomtechniques2566]

Best optimization video ever ! It's not sorcery anymore ! Thanks a lot Louis.

[@markcunningham3891]

Awesome video Louis and this just re-affirms my subscription i signed for a few days ago. What you have created is a real game changer for non-coders and much more advancer designers. I am obsessed with the ratings on GTMetrix and blown away that a full page loaded from templates in Oxygen can be so fast, low sized and so few requests. Thanks for what you created!!

[@beatsbyfred]

Thank you for this!!! I've been trying for AGES to reduce the load time and thanks to this guide I went from 12 seconds to 6. Thank you🙏

[@Pogohontas.]

Can you link it? I might be able to help you further reduce it

[@SantoshkumarPandeySKCP]

Give this man a medal! Absolutely helpful stuff.

[@barbarasantos2551]

This tutorial is amazing!! Ever since I loved my blog to wordpress, I noticed that it became very slow. But I had no idea how to tackle that. Now I do! Thanks a lot!!

[@alainsabum]

i quit school, i dont care about grades! Realest quote ever

[@anad6448]

Thank you Louis for sharing your valuable wealth of knowledge on WordPress and Development tips with us! You're the real deal, and I know you, you know your stuff! So thank you! I really like the direction you're taking with the more educational videos regarding WordPress, and combining it with Oxygen. I feel very lucky to have access to you as a "teacher". Please keep them coming, they are the highlight of my KZbin subscriptions! (not even joking....they really are =D ) For anybody watching this, this Guys is the real deal: no hidden agendas and always an open book.

[@workinggirljapanese]

This is the first video I watched on your channel and I am a new Elementor user. Honestly at first my impression is this video will just gonna pitch Oxygen builder in most parts BUT after watching, this is the most helpful video I’ve watched! Totally logical and detailed approach on optimizing website speed. I could use what you taught here even in non-wp websites I am working on. I’ve watched many video about the same concerns and most are just all about downloading a certain plugin. More power and will be watching more of your videos!

[@rockrecon]

One of the best optimization vids I've seen. Thank you. (future Oxygen user)

[@zahwaniyacine4620]

ooo yeah

[@Shakey-i2l]

The best even after almost two years. many thanks

[@MrHydrent]

I've seen a lot of WP speed optimization tutorials, this is BY FAR the best one. Good work and great info. I'll check out Oxygen and give it a test drive.

[@MarioBarretta]

Very good work. Finally the tutorial that all search and no one found. Best help on line

[@ChuckRosseel]

Outstanding how to speed up WordPress video. Simple, clear, easy to follow directions. Thank you!

[@berenger9077]

Dude. This video will take your channel FAR! and you will deserve it!

[@BENITRAGELLC]

Excellent video. Clearly spoken and good pace. Best WordPress site speed improvement video I've seen.

[@moynulaminamin9106]

The best speed optimization video I've seen to date

[@tim.costello]

i dont leave comments very often on youtube, but this video is amazing, im going to try all what ive just learnt, thanks for this and keep up the good work.

[@anuj7286]

Very great informative video that i found on KZbin seriously no one talk about this type of optimization thank you so much greetings from India. ❤️

[@kamuscara]

I'm a big fan of Oxygen Builder. I built 12 sites with speed score around 98-100 😄 Thats really awesome.

[@MberGMusic]

Thank you SoooooooSOOOOO Much!! Improved my site from 11sec to 1.5 sec and only 1.17 MB of usage

[@indianamerica]

Hands down the best speed up video.

[@JoseGarcia-yp9mr]

Even when you really tried very hard to start from the worst page, learned a lot, thanks excelent tutorial

[@caroldanvers265]

I learned so much about optimization in your video rather than most people anywhere else. Thank you!

[@ibi9828]

Damn! I've been looking at many videos to speed up my sites. Yours is by far the best I've seen so far! Thanks

[@jimmyekisa2994]

A great video on practical optimization. I have for so long been keen on grades rather than pay attention to results. Thank you so much.

[@IamAliHassanDar]

Best video i have seen in best wordpress speed optimization

[@mahdimiad]

You are more than great, some Digital Marketing Guys, will charge $2500 for only this one hour course, I must and must subscribe to this channel and share, thanks again again

[@gabriellivan7040]

Jokes apart, have you seen ridiculous prices out there for teaching this kind of things?

[@mahdimiad]

@@gabriellivan7040 Not exactly 100% but almost same

[@AlmostHomeRealEstateServices]

Luis GREAT Video. I had to keep pausing it to do all these great tips and when I was done.... SIMPLY AMAZING results. I will check out Oxygen for my next website, but I was able to use your tips with my current site and saw dramatic improvement across the board. THANK YOU for taking the time to put this video together.

[@akhil0227]

One of the best speed optimization video ever!!

[@tasnimulshadi1291]

BEST Page Speed Optimization Video

[@physicstutoronline5603]

Very good helpful video - thank you! Started using Asset Cleanup and followed your advice. This greatly improved my page loading times from 6.5s to 2.4s in about 30 minutes!

[@MelHaynesJr]

Thank you for taking the time to make this video. Very helpful. I just rebuilt a site in Oxygen and sadly its pretty quick now so these tips are not needed, but now plan on doing this on all my sites.

[@thebibleproof]

Your comment at 42:22 was subtle. I'm with you Louis.

[@andreip.8321]

This is a great tutorial. I liked the video, although there are a few things that could have been done better: 1) you use those 2 clock images which are huge, so of course, just by optimizing them, you'll reduce the size of the page by 10MB or so.. 2) you shouldn't always rely on page speed, especially if you run the test once. Test with a random page on gtmetrix 5 times and see the speed times you'll get, I'm almost sure the 1st time will be different (usually higher) than the following ones 3) if you scale the hero image to 1400, how will it look on 1920x1080 resolutions?

[@GauravSharma-jz2rl]

Awesome site optimization video and that too without using any third-party plugins. Loved it.

[@wordpresslightspeed5667]

An advice: Since Page speed is a ranking factor, the only tool that should be used to measure site speed is 'Google Page Speed.' Great work by the way!

[@konstantinlapshin5010]

Thank you, it was very helpful. Sped up my site significantly. Followed every step, besides switching a hosting provider. And after all of that, I deactivated the "Asset" plug-in, and my achieved an extra second improvement. But whatever I do, I cannot get it less than 2.9 seconds loading time. Total page size is 1.46mb, most of which are elementor bloat and sumo-me pluggin.

[@feelinginsider643]

This is also happening for me when i am using tagdiv composer in newspaper theme.🙄

[@Anonymous11235]

This video is a lifesaver. THANK YOU for the clear and thorough video.

[@alexwilson7235]

WOWO man, you are the BEST one on KZbin I learn a lot from you. Thank you so much please keep going you are really talented I mean you know how to explain. It's not like other youtebers

[@feelinginsider643]

Really a nice tutorial in details. I will follow your suggestion today at night. Good luck

[@phase4485]

Excellent video. Thank you so much. It’s the best video on site speed optimisation I’ve seen. I’m also with WP Engine and agree that they are fast and provide first class support.

[@moscownoir8834]

Awesome info, u helped me to improve from 6.5 sec (15MB) to 4.0 sec (1.6MB)!

[@humanyoda]

4 sec is too much too.

[@TheArtOfTrading]

I love and hate you man. I love you for helping me optimize my website better than I could have hoped, but I hate you for giving me a year's worth of work haha

[@mechatronicmasters3635]

Broke my site as soon as I hit the activate button. Wow. Thanks a lot.

[@hannanbaig7888]

How did you fix it?

[@mechatronicmasters3635]

@@hannanbaig7888 the website was luckily backed up so I reverted the website a day or two back then never used the plugin. Check with your hosting company, they may have backups, they can do it for you, if you dont know how. Always back up your site when messing with plugins..then test. There are tons of plugins that break your site. Better safe than sorry.

[@jeffsnelling6092]

Thank you Louis!!! This was an eye-opening video that will save me so much time. Love how you walk through the waterfall chart to show us what to look for. Awesome!!!

[@jeffsnelling6092]

Oh, and now I know about Oxygenbuilder... nice going!

[@largeroomnolight]

The best optimization tutorial ever. Thank you good sir. :-)

[@philippstauble7912]

Obviously an awesome site Builder. I bought it yesterday.

[@shannonhorsley4096]

This is one of the best tutorial videos I have ever watched! Thank you so much!

[@iMakeMemes]

went fron 9.1s to 423ms.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU ROCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK

[@samnsimson7780]

It really worked. Thanks for pointing out the right plugin and methods.

[@tim874536]

Great job, this harden my skill to overcome wordpress loading size.

[@vimanferhan903]

Did your website speed up after this video??

[@tim874536]

@@vimanferhan903 normally it does by reduced image size and loading less resources.

[@pedroserapio8075]

Thank you very much for taking the time to create this great video.

[@moklesurrahman4179]

Great Tutorial I already complete my website using this tutorial. Thanks

[@rodrigo_]

This is pure gold

[@GigaBuzzStore]

Many thanks for the video Louise. I did follow it step by step and managed to make some progress reducing the number of requests from 134 to 74, but to get it fully loaded it takes 7.9 long secs...

[@putting4par]

Very helpful. I don't have the technical know how to use Asset CleanUp to it's fullest, but I've gotten the page load time down from 2.1 sec to .6 sec. However, I still have 3 issues in the GTMetrix YSlow read-out to straighten out. I'm fairly certain I'll get below 1/2 sec once I get those figured out. Thanks a bunch Louis!

[@41dhir]

This video is lit! I hope I will be able to reduce my website loading time using this.

[@PitdesignsErbil]

Thank you for the time and effort put into making this video. also, thanks for keeping Oxygen bloat free..

[@KartiKM001]

I haven't tried ur plugin yet.. but it definitely looks very promising! Good Video Tutorial as well! Thankyou!

[@pageoneclick7758]

Awesome tutorial, and thanks for sharing the Asset Cleanup plugin!

[@kiki3ooo]

It's fascinating that there are persons that don't like this video tutorial

[@olli1511]

Great video! Best content I found on page speed optimization so far!

[@khandakertoihid2100]

I really like this wonderful and efficient tutorial. It's very clean, easy and simple. Super

[@AmandaLucaseu]

Incredible tutorial Louis! Thank you. With images I normally scale first, the optimise in Photoshop for web - the compression and size savings are incredible. Really effective especially on image heavy designs. I am so glad I found Oxygen 🤗 Such a fan.

[@ocasioconsulting8754]

Amanda, try this plug-in ShortPixel Adaptive Image. It will save you a ton of time.

[@michaelhofby]

Try Optimole plugin it is the best

[@feelinginsider643]

I also optimized from Photoshop under 100kb. Recently it shows errors for extra resolution issue.

[@xenicmark]

This is the real deal right here. Thanks for the video.

[@ivanizmir]

This is gold Louis. GOLD!

[@comartse]

Great job Louis! Thank you so much for making this tutorial. Much appreciated.

[@RMSAnalyst]

Fantastic video & fabulous Oxygen! Thank you Louis!

[@chriswganser]

Great video, just the one I needed to speed up my website

[@JanaMurrayOBX]

Just incredible, this is one of the very best speed optimization tutorials ever! :)

[@tripmore]

Such a nice and better explanation. will love to see you soon with new stuff. you earned a subscriber.

[@OddvarMeyer]

Thank you for a great video. The only problem now in April 2021 is that GTmetrix doesn't look the same as in this video so it is hard to find those areas to fix. Especially the information about what images to resize. The PageSpeed tab is replaced with a Summery tab.

[@Par1s4]

I love how you don't go "etc, etc.." but you are going step by step for everything 3-4 times. Great work! As I turn on only "Unload on this page" and not "Unload site-wide (everywhere)", this means that I optimise only the specific page (homepage)?

[@gabriellivan7040]

If you choose "Unload on this page", it will only apply the rule for the page you're editing (homepage or whatever page you were on). "Unload site-wide (everywhere)" will apply the same rule on all the website. To make exceptions on specific pages, just turn on "Load it on this page (make exception)" ;-)

[@robertconnors121]

Amazing Tutorial! Such great explanations for a newb like me!

[@Glow0110]

AWESOME video by the way 😎cheers for creating this!

[@joncrosby1]

Awesome video and plugin suggestion! Would love to try Oxygen but we are stuck with BB for now, would love an updated video with GTMetrix new layout and menu/metrics if you ever have the time! ; )

[@wpfixcenter7970]

At 1:30 you show a site that gets A's but loads slow and it bloated, can you share what site that was? I wonder how that site does on Google Pagespeed?

[@s.m.shafiqahmed5350]

a very helpful video for speed optimization

[@websiteckron8591]

Thank you, very interesting. How do I know which files I will need and which I don’t?

[@shadowhacker4043]

best ONE man , great job and big thanks bro

[@patmatt8283]

Hey Louis. Awesome video. Thank you. Question. What about optimizing for mobile?