What I Learned Optimizing 20 WooCommerce Sites

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What I Learned Optimizing 20 WooCommerce Sites Luke Cavanagh WooCommerce Specialist - Memory *is* RAM! Ha! Oh Dear! @nexcess

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Why should I optimize my site? A faster site will mean better conversions and less performance issues. IT Crowd >

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How do I even know if I have performance problems? For front-end issues I would recommend to use GTmetrix or WebPageTest and look in the waterfall results of your site. For deeper performance issues I would recommend New Relic APM.

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Easy Ways To Reduce The Number of Active Plugins Look for duplicate features in plugins and look for duplicate plugin types.

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How to Optimize Images Tools and some plugins with services.

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Plugins with Performance issues Which plugins can cause performance issues.

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Plugins that should be replaced with dedicated services Plugin examples would be abandoned cart recovery, cart reporting, self-hosted analytics or email newsletters. Jilt or Recapture ConvertKit, ActiveCampaign or EmailOctopus Google Analytics

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Enable Caching at the end not before The site should be fast and optimized without full page cache, miniﬁcation or a CDN being enabled on it.

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Masking the real issues with caching plugins Using caching plugins for full page cache could be masking the real issues with the sites plugin stack. Enable caching when you have ﬁnished with all site optimization work.

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Which full page cache or CDN? Use server-side caching, a solid full page caching plugin there are number pick the one you like the most. Some of the best CDN options for features and price are Cloudﬂare and BunnyCDN.