{"id":152228,"date":"2016-02-25T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/premium.wpmudev.org\/blog\/?p=152228"},"modified":"2018-08-01T00:42:29","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T00:42:29","slug":"hummingbird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/hummingbird\/","title":{"rendered":"Make Your WordPress Site FLY with Hummingbird"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today we\u2019re excited to introduce you to Hummingbird<\/a>, our brand new performance and optimization plugin… The hero you didn\u2019t know your website needed.<\/p>\n

Lightweight and high-powered, Hummingbird caches, minifies, combines, defers script loading, compresses, and makes your site a lean, mean speed machine.<\/p>\nSince Hummingbird was launched we\u2019ve added sooo much new stuff. Head over to the project page to check out all the new features! <\/span>Check out Hummingbird<\/span><\/a>\n

It packs a punch, making optimizations in line with Google PageSpeed Insights and finding new ways to make it load faster, because when it comes to page speed \u2013 and especially Google \u2013 every millisecond counts.<\/p>\n

Hummingbird: WordPress on\u00a0Speed<\/h3>\n

We built Hummingbird to give you simple and intuitive tools to get your page speed well and truly cranking.<\/p>\n

How many times have you run your site through Google PageSpeed Insights and stared at the results, wondering how exactly to follow up the vague suggestions? Things like \u201cleverage browser caching\u201d or \u201cminify CSS\u201d and even \u201coptimize images.”<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve lost count of the number of times I\u2019ve googled \u201celiminate render-blocking JavaScript.\u201d Yes, I can see render-blocking JavaScript is a problem on your site, but how do I actually fix it?<\/p>\n

We designed Hummingbird in a way that not only directly fixes many of the these issues slowing down your site, but also provides clear and easy to follow instructions on how you can further improve your PageSpeed Insights score, right down to the specific files you need to edit or move to the footer of your site, and even the images you need to compress.<\/p>\n

Hummingbird communicates directly with our Performance Service, which we custom built to power The Hub for our members, effectively turning your site into an awesome experimental speed platform. This lets you tweak your configurations and immediately see in-dashboard what effect the updates you make have on your page speed.<\/p>\n

Performance Report<\/h4>\n

Scan your site and get an in-depth report on just how well it\u2019s performing.<\/p>\n

Hummingbird examines the same vital components of your website as Google PageSpeed Insights and gives you an overall score out of 100 so you can quickly determine whether you need to make performance improvements to your site.<\/p>\n

The performance report also provides scores out of 100 for aspects of your site that you may want to consider fixing, including render blocking resources, server response time, image optimization, and minification.<\/p>\n

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Scan your site for a full performance report and recommendations.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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When you click \u201cImprove Score\u201d next to any of the recommendations, you will be provided detailed insights into what is slowing down your site and advice on what you need to do to improve your PageSpeed score.<\/p>\n

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Get detailed advice on how to fix issues with your site that are slowing it down, including render-block resources.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

And when you scroll down further, you’ll see detailed advice on how to improve your site:<\/p>\n

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Hummingbird performance advice.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Uptime Monitoring<\/h4>\n

Hummingbird has a trusty sidekick! Monitor keeps an eye on your site around the clock and lets you know the second anything goes wrong, including slow response times, server errors, and pages disappearing.<\/p>\n

To activate Monitor, simply enable it from the Hummingbird dashboard. You will then see a full log of your uptime, downtime, outages, average response time (including a handy graph), as well as the last reported time your site was offline.<\/p>\n

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Let Monitor keep an eye on your site and let you know the second it goes offline.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

GZIP Compression<\/h4>\n

Turn on GZIP compression for your HTML, JavaScript, and CSS files and watch your site fly.<\/p>\n

You can also select your server type for precise control.<\/p>\n

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Compress your files so they load more quickly.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Browser Caching<\/h4>\n

Turn on browser caching so you can temporarily store your site\u2019s data on your users\u2019 devices, ensuring your content loads super quickly for return visitors.<\/p>\n

From the Browser Caching interface in Hummingbird, you can set the number of days you want your content to remain on visitor devices before they have to download it again.<\/p>\n

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Your site will load more quickly with browser caching switched on.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Minification<\/h4>\n

Choose which specific files you want to minify and combine, and even whether you want to include them in the header or footer of your site, or keep them in the original position. Hummingbird will also let you know how much space you\u2019ve saved reducing your files.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t forget to scroll to the bottom of the Minification settings page for a super cool graph illustrating how your files have been combined and minified.<\/p>\n

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Big things come in small packages. Minify your content and ensure it’s served up super fast.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Image Optimization<\/h4>\n

If you\u2019re serious about speeding up your site, optimizing your images is an absolute must. Pair Hummingbird with our popular image compression plugin Smush Pro.<\/p>\n

Just check out the live stats:<\/strong><\/p>\n