{"id":190434,"date":"2020-10-12T05:19:31","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T05:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/premium.wpmudev.org\/blog\/?p=190434"},"modified":"2020-10-12T05:19:31","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T05:19:31","slug":"optimize-wordpress-speed-hummingbird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/optimize-wordpress-speed-hummingbird\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Optimize WordPress For Speed With Hummingbird"},"content":{"rendered":"

Optimizing a WordPress site for speed can seem daunting even for advanced users. Here is a complete guide on how to make your web pages load incredibly fast with Hummingbird<\/a>, our WordPress speed optimization plugin.<\/p>\n

Make your WordPress sites blazing fast with Hummingbird<\/small><\/p>\n

One thousand and one…one thousand and two…<\/em><\/p>\n

That’s all the time you’ve got to ensure that your pages load on a user’s browser before half your visitors lose interest<\/a>\u00a0and decide to leave your site.<\/p>\n

Optimizing WordPress pages to load in under two seconds can be a complex and challenging task. Many factors contribute to your site’s speed, like your web hosting, media file sizes, third-party scripts, the number of plugins, and the theme you’ve installed on your site.<\/p>\n

In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to use Hummingbird<\/a> to take a slow-loading site like this…<\/p>\n

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Site before optimization. Source: tools.pingdom.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And optimize it for faster loading pages like this…<\/p>\n

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Same site after some basic optimization. Source: tools.pingdom.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hummingbird is a powerful plugin that optimizes WordPress sites to deliver faster-loading pages to your visitors’ desktop and mobile browsers using an intuitive and easy-to-use interface with one-click automated optimization features.<\/p>\n

Hummingbird also gives users complete control of their site optimization with advanced fine-tuning settings and options, detailed explanations of technical recommendations, score metrics to help you understand what you are doing, continuous monitoring of performance issues (with recommendations on how to fix these), unparallelled 24\/7 plugin support, and ongoing plugin development.<\/p>\n

This guide will show you how to get the most out of Hummingbird’s speed optimization features and keep your web pages loading fast. We’ll cover the following sections:<\/p>\n

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  1. Why Use Hummingbird to Optimize WordPress Site Speed?<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  2. The Hummingbird Dashboard – Your WordPress Speed Optimization HQ<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  3. Assess Your Site with a Performance Test<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  4. Deliver Faster Pages and Content with Caching<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  5. Reduce File Sizes for Faster Serving with Gzip Compression<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  6. Turbo-boost Page Speed with Asset Optimization<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  7. Keep Your Site Lean and Users Keen with Advanced Tools<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  8. View Site Downtime with Uptime Monitoring<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  9. No-risk Optimization – Boost Your Page Speed or Get Your Slow Site Back<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    We’ll also explore how Hummingbird addresses various factors that contribute to page speed and provide you with links to relevant tutorials and resources to help you get the most out of the plugin.<\/p>\n

    “Hummingbird is so easy to use. I thought it wouldn\u2019t change my speed much because I already made improvements. I ran the scan, it gave me recommendations, I pushed a button to apply them and it made my site even faster!” \u2013 Camilo<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    We have a lot of ground to cover, so let’s get started…<\/p>\n

    1. Why Use Hummingbird to Optimize WordPress Site Speed?<\/h2>\n

    There are a number of free online tools you can use to test your site’s performance.<\/p>\n

    The most popular and recommended tools are Google PageSpeed Insights<\/a>, Pingdom Tools<\/a>, and Gmetrix<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    Although all of the above are great tools for showing you how fast your website pages are loading, we developed Hummingbird to follow Google PageSpeed Insights recommendations because:<\/p>\n