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Just optimised my site!

TimBartrum

Published on April 5, 2015

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I recently discovered that my site was slower than 78% websites tested on this popular website speed checker tool, which is bad because Google penalises you if you have a slow site.

I found that the main cause was all my images as I hadn't been optimising them by reducing their size- they should be under 100KB and many of mine were like 600KB and some even a few MB.

So I optimised all my images which took a while and then got rid of some plugins which were slowing my site down a bit.

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Now it's way faster!! On the speed checker it now says that my website is faster than 77% of websites tested on it, which is great!

Shows how important it is to optimise your images..

My site is http://thepcprogrammer.com/

Website Speed Checker tool: http://tools.pingdom.com/

Awesome plugin to check plugin script speeds: P3 Plugin Profiler

It feels awesome cos my site is so much faster now! :D

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