Autoptimize

Improve the performance of your website with Autoptimize. This is an open-source software. The WordPress plugin helps improve your website. The purpose of the plug-in is to optimize. It aggregates and minimizes the CSS and JavaScript on your site so it can load faster.

What is Autoptimize?

Autoptimize is a plug-in for making your website load faster. Users are very satisfied with this plug-in. Autoptimize is free and open-source. So well accessible. The plug-in makes it easy for you to optimize your site in terms of speed.

What does Autoptimize do?

In summary, Autoptimize collects and minimizes aspects that can slow down your website. Scripts and CSS can be deferred. This way, not everything loads immediately when the site is opened, but only when the visitor gets to the point of the site where it is needed.

There is also an Autoptimize Expert Configuration. However, this service is paid for. With the plug-in, you have to roll up your own sleeves to optimize your website with Autoptimize’s tools. The service you pay to have that done for you. A complete speed optimization from Autoptimize will cost you even more.

Read more about SEO and WordPress

I enjoy writing about SEO and WordPress. Read all articles here that deal (sideways) with optimizing SEO within a WordPress website. From plugins to helpful tips.

Plugins/tools for WordPress

• SEO plugins
• SEO Press
• SEO Squirrly
• All In One Rich Snippets
• SEO for WordPress websites
• Rank Math
• The SEO Framework
• Yoast SEO
• W3 Total Cache

General

• SEO for WooCommerce web shops
• Adding Google Analytics to WordPress

Impact on SEO

A faster website and better performance are important for SEO. These are 2 aspects that search engines pay attention to. They factor this into their ranking. That means a faster page will get you higher in search results. The same goes for stronger performance of your page or site.

My advice

Above all, get started yourself with the Autoptimize plug-in. Paying for the service in the absence of sufficient knowledge is an option. The thing is, you do need to update your website and for most effectiveness, you will be doing optimization more often. Then it can get expensive to outsource. There are also other plug-ins that cost you less money and still do a lot of optimization work for you.

The most complete book on website speed

I’ve written so much about speeding up websites and everything involved that I like to divide it into different sections; general, tools, speed improvement points and tips. Feel free to see and consult all the links below to learn more about tools and tips for speeding up your website.

General

• What is the website speed
• Website speed: The division between marketing and development
• The influence of SEO on UX
• The influence of web design on SEO
• SPAs and SEO
• What are the Google Core Web Vitals?

Tools

• Pagespeed.Compare
• W3 Total Cache
• Tools Pingdom
• Google Pagespeed Insights
• GTMetrix

Verbter points for speed

• First Contentful Paint (FCP)
• Time To First Byte (TTFB).
• Time To Interactive (TTI).
• Image for Largest view with content (LCP) preloaded
• Enable text compression
• Reduce the CSS
• Total Blocking Time (TBT).
• Speed Index
• Reduce JavaScript
• Largest Contentful Paint
• Avoid an overly large DOM
• Delete unused CSS
• Remove unused JavaScript
• Deliver images in modern layouts
• Connect in advance to required origins
• Preventing obsolete JavaScript from being delivered to modern browsers
• Use an efficient cache policy for static items
• Remove duplicate modules from JavaScript
• Avoid multiple redirects
• Encode images efficiently
• Use lazy loading
• Load important requests in advance

General tips

• Tips for quickly loading a video
• Using Edge SEO for a faster website
• Installing a Content Delivery Network for SEO
• Optimizing images for SEO
• The influence of hosting on SEO