What plugins reduce lag in WordPress?

What plugins reduce lag in WordPress?

Plugins which decrease lag time are those which speed up your site’s load time. That being said such plugins to help you speed up your site are,

  • Asset Clean Up Plugin:
  • Cloudflare Plugin
  • TinyPNG
  • Bulk Image Resizer

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You can also check out this YouTube playlist I made on the topic

Asset Clean Up Plugin:

Asset Clean Up Plugin allows you to combine any necessary plugin files into one and also removing certain plugin files from certain pages. Both of these things allow you to reduce lag on your front end page load times for your users.

Cloudflare Plugin

Cloudflare is a plugin which allows you to set up Cloudflare CDN on your WordPress site. A CDN will store copies of your site in closer proximity to your users which will speed up the load time of your site for them.

Cloudflare also has security features and back up features which are useful for your site. You can learn to set up Cloudflare Plugin.

TinyPNG

TinyPng is an image compression plugin which automatically compresses images when you upload them. This will reduce lag on your site as smaller images will mean smaller total page sizes for your users to browse and download when using your site.

Bulk Image Resizer

You can use this plugin to resize all the images on your site in one fell swoop. It’s common for WordPress users to upload

You can use Bulk Image Resizer to, in one or two quick steps, to resize all the images on your site or more selectively.

Complete process to reduce lag in your WordPress Site

I wrote a longer post on a complete process to speed up your site. The process described uses the above plugins to reduce lag in your site but also uses other techniques. I use Google Page Speed Insights to measure the improvements.

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