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Hi all.  What are your recommendations to improve the speed of a wordpress site?Hi all. What are your recommendations to improve the speed of a wordpress site? Any main areas to look at?  
Hi all.  What are your recommendations to improve the speed of a wordpress site?

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I like  look at ttfb, it may indicate you need a better host. Optimize all the images. Reduce plugins as much as possible, if it's not actively being used, get rid of it. Use caching, I like WPRocket, it does a great job. Cloudflare.  
https://www.webpagetest.org/
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Run 2-3 tests (gt metrix, pingdom tools, pagespeed insights, and follow the hints. Images, cache etc
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PHP 7. 3+ and HTTP/2 are main areas. Images may be a problem. Here is my list of recommendations  
https://bluestar.london/wp-performance/
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Check out the CAOS plugin to host google analytics JS locally and remove that render-blocking problem we all see. Also check out the Optimole plugin.  
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